Oa the excellencyof the S®ul, 3Ç with many guessans , - fo they turn the phrafe : Now the Lord take off your hearts from thole , and give you heats, ro attend to this great queflion , ithát Mall wee do to b.re faved ? It was the queffton, you know, of the Taylor in 1íEí. x 6. 30. And it concerns thole that yet have not affu- rance of what condition their fouls are in for falvation, tp ask this queflion fpeedily , and not to put it off till they corne to ficknefs and death, and then fend.for Miniflers and godly Chriflians, and fay, Ohl what (hall I do ? how ma- ny_ upon their fick and death beds that never minded to Inquire before what they fhould do to bee Paved, then are in dreadful anguish, . and then cry our, Ch what (hail I`do? Oh the diflrefled condition I am to i. lam afraid my foul is.loflfor ever, what (hall I do ? why doll thou ask itnow .? is this:queftion to ask now when thy foul is going before the great and dreadful God to have the. fentence of its eternal, doom to bee pall, . upon it ? Oh it concerns you betimes, you young toes, as foon as ever you come to know you have fouls, it concerns you to bee _asking this great queflion,' ti hat [hall l dog to bee faved ? And wee have an example of this, of a young man that Chrifl lookt upon in love, becaufe bee was inquifitive about the falvation of his foul; the' Flory is in Matti). 19. i 6.. Behold gm came and paid unto him, Good Mailer, what good thing ,(hall 1 elo that 1 may inherit eternal life, and verf. ao. - It appears that this was a young man ; The pang manfakrh two him, All 'theft things have 1 done. Oh it.were a comely thing for youngmen to come toChrifl, and-fay, What fhall wee do to have e- ternal life ? and it appear ,that beep was a. young Gentle= man, a man of,great poff4lfions, and laze is called in the Gofpel by St.. Dike, 1 Fuser; fome-Interpreters think- that -that was meant :onely in the family, for, the ,Jews, had forne chief in the family.that did rule and govern there; but this young mari bee comes.to Chrifl, and that running, as in Mark Im. 17. Ma-k 1,6. where you have the Flory, 0;dChrifl lookt upon Mm, and loved him, as invert. 21., Oh it is a lovely thing to fee young_ people begin betimes to inquire what they mould Pp 3 do
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