on the Excellency- of the Soul. 295 we& a ytöung mae, thou wert wanton, or unclean, and pro- phane, and abroad in the fields,, and in wicked houfes on the Lordiday,. I but now thou haft more wifdoane and :un- derftanding, and now thou dot} not fo, this is well, "and` good, and this is to bee encouraged; I but what is this to fuch a mighty change asto bee born again? If fo bee that your bodies had no other-kind of foul than that that is or fence, and,afterwardsa rational foul fhould bee put into it, what a mighty change would there bee in that body ? before they could onely fee, and hear, and feel, but now having a rational foul, they can underftand, uncle Rand reafon, underftand "the wales of men; this is a ° mighty ch In e; and: trulry5 therein' as mighty a change when Clod pins a nTw life into the foul, and do :h regenerate its making it partaker of the divine Nature, and even to come to live the life of God, according as the Scripture phrafe is ; Now this mull bee in:every foul that mull- bee Paved, and if the time bee not come,, that this regeneration is wrought, then cer- tainly tlaytfoul is yet in a periIhing- condition, God knows only what bee -doth intend to do hereafter, but for the prefers, thyToul, I fay, is in a pe'dfhing condition : The firf} work'thatGod'made (that is, the work of Creation ) byût -wag quite (}oiled Now Jefus Chriftthe Son of Gods.. that is:hishortotír and-his work to rear up a new-wo old, and that is a better world a great deal than the former w ;ld was; and the (pedal- creatures of- this world they are'his - Saints, and the new Creation in -their hearts -; now' this is the condition of a cónverted' foul, it is made a new Crea- ture, All ald,tbrxgs are - done away. Thou that livell in thine n Cam, 5, . ai old wales, at)d`artaltoge_her forkhin e old.'cùftomes, and' what (halt thititdo:.cOrirraiñow o what thy Foe- faehers did, and thou thy,felf haft do le all-thy life time? and the like; oh thiSiisa dangerous' kind-of'reafoning ! why, thou mull bee anew Creature, and all things are to become nem in - ttifr fool; thou muffknow; th,tthe Old Man is dead in thee,, and that the New Creature- is reared up- in thee, or éífe thou cant} no kho',v; that if- thy foul flyould this rtighe deparr,
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