Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

¹An Heathen can tell us, that it is an easy matter to bear the loss of an earthly house for our bodies, when we die; but certainly it will be hard to bear the want of an heavenly habitation for thy soul. Let him that bought this ware, speak to its worth, and thy loss; What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matth. 16.26. Behold what an incomparable, what an irreparable loss is here. It is such a loss, there is none like it; The gain of the whole world, cannot balance the loss of one soul. If a temporal life be more worth then meat, and the body then raiment, what is an immortal eternal soul worth? Couldst thou set thy soul to sale for all the world, yet for all that thou wouldst be a loser, nay, as the rich man, a beggar. This is an irrecoverable loss; If thou losest one eye, thou hast another; if thou losest one limb, thou hast more; if thou losest thine estate, thou mayst recover it again; if thou losest thy life, thou mayst be a gainer by it, thou mayst find it again. Matth. 16.25. but if thou losest thy soul at death, thou hast no more; there is no second throw to be cast, ⟨p. 89⟩no after-game to be played, thou art gone, thou art undone for ever. Here is a loss (man) that may make thy hair stand an end thy head, yea, thy heart to ache when thou readest or thinkest of it, do not thine ears tingle, and thy loins tremble to hear of it?

¹An Heathen can tel us, that it is an easiy matter to beare the losse of an earthly house for our bodies, when we die; but certainly it wil be hard to beare the want of an heavenly habitation for thy soul. Let him that bought this ware, speak to its worth, and thy losse; What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matth. 16.26. Behold what an incomparable, what an irreparable losse is here. It is such a losse, there is none like it; The gain of the whole world, cannot ballance the losse of one soul. If a temporal life be more worth then meat, and the body then rayment, what is an immortal eternal soul worth? Couldst thou set thy soul to sale for all the world, yet for all that thou wouldst be a loser, nay, as the rich man, a beggar. This is an irrecoverable losse; If thou losest one eye, thou hast another; if thou losest one limb, thou hast more; if thou losest thine estate, thou mayst recover it again; if thou losest thy life, thou mayst be a gainer by it, thou mayst find it again.