2,96 On the Excellency of the Soul. depart, but that thou fhouldea bee an undone Creature for ever. Yea, Shall I yet fay further, becaufe it is a point of -a wonderful confequence for men and vvoinen to put them- felves to it ; I fear that there is many men and women here , that yet all their lives time have not put this que ftion to themfelves , What are the tearms betvveen and meee ? why, I hope that God will work grace in tie; I but vvhat hash God done ? is it fo vvrought at this prefent, that if I were this moment to die, I were in a fafe condition , and the hazard of my mifcarrying to all eternity were over ?A man may joyfully go thorow all condi- tions in this world, if hee were able to fay, well, vvhat- ever befall met in this world , yet my condition is fuch, that I know the hazard of my mifcarrying for ever, blef- fei bee God that is over : Oh that people would but put this queftion to themfelves, In what eaate am I now in, if :I were to die this infant ? Ninthly, Wherefore then another thing is this, That foul that yet hath not gone beyond thofe that the Scrip - ture doch brand and note for Hypocrites, or Reprobates, if thou haft yet no more wrought in thee than the Scrip- ture thews that they had, then certainly if thou thouldea now die, thou mutt needs perifh. --- As now, the Scrip- ture holds forth thefe examples. Pharaoh confeffing his fins, The Lord ¡s Righteom , faith Pharaoh, and I have fumed. Saul, I.havefinned againfl the Lord. Ahab, Bee humbled himfelf infackcloath, and went foft ly, when the Prophet threatned Gods anger againt} him. The Scripture tells you of the flony,ground ., which re- ceived the . word with jay. Of Herod, That hee heard John Baptifl gladly , and re -. formed many things. Of Judas, Bee came and acknowledged his fin, and brought again the thirty peeces that-bee had gotten by it , and.calt it, down: yet theft of which the Scripture thus fpeaks,
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