Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…

223 Use 4 Those that have most Soul-Excellency, are the most excellent people. 226 Use 5 Let us bless God for our souls. 228 For hence it is that 1 You are looked upon by the Angels themselves. ib. 2 The Providence of God is more towards you. ib. 3 You are such as are capable of all the good Christ hath purchased. 229 6 Bless God for Soul-Mercies above all other. 231 7 What a pity is it that God should not have the honour of mens souls. 232 8 Take heed of dishonouring these souls of yours. 233 Question How may a man dishonour his soul? Answer, 236 1 When he lives idly, and makes no use of it. ib. 2 When he employs it about low and mean things. 237 3 When he defiles his soul. 238 4 When he make it a drudge to his body. ib. 5 When he grudges the time and cost he spends upon it. 239 6 When he lays not up provision for it against an evil day. 240 7 When he thinks to satisfy it with any thing but God. ibid. Next Use shows how to put honour upon our soul. ib. And that 1 By having your thoughts often upon them. ib. 2 By keeping your bodies under them. 241 3 By adorning your souls with beauty. 242 ⟨image 97⟩4 By providing for them. ib. 5 By employing them in things suitable to them. ib. 6 By bringing them to gain that end for which they were made. ib. Doct. 2 That the loss of the soul is a most dreadful loss. 243 Answers to that Question, What Christ means by the loss of the soul? ib. Not because they will be annihilated. ib. But 1 The loss of the soul is in the privations of it, of all good. 244 2 It consists in its departing from God. ib. 3 In subjecting it to that misery and evil that is contrary to what good it is capable of. ib. 4 In the succourless and helpless condition it is brought into. For 1 Every man and woman, as they came into the world, are deprived of that glory and excellency that God did endow the souls of men with at their first Creation. 2 All our souls do naturally wander away from God. 245 3 In its depravity and sinfulness. ib. 4 Its being in a succourless, helpless condition. ib. Wherein consists the loss of the soul in Hell? 246 1 In the full rejection of the soul from God. ib. 1 From living the life of God. 247 2 From having any union with God. 249 3 From having any fruition of God. ib. 4 From enjoying the presence of Christ. 250 5 From being ever exercised in that blessed work of praising God.

223 Use 4 Those that have most Soul-Excellency, are the most excellent people. 226 Use 5 Let us bless God for our souls. 228 For hence it is that 1 You are look'd upon by the Angels themselves. ib. 2 The Providence of God is more towards you. ib. 3 You are such as are capable of all the good Christ hath purchased. 229 6 Bless God for Soul-Mercies above all other. 231 7 What a pitty is it that God should not have the honour of mens souls. 232 8 Take heed of dishonouring these souls of yours. 233 Question How may a man dishonour his soul? Answer, 236 1 When hee lives idlely, and makes no use of it. ib. 2 When hee emploies it about low and mean things. 237 3 When hee defiles his soul. 238 4 When hee make it a drudge to his body. ib. 5 When hee grudges the time and cost hee spends upon it. 239 6 When hee laies not up provision for it against an evil day. 240 7 When hee thinks to satisfie it with any thing but God. ibid. Next Use shews how to put honour upon our soul. ib. And that 1 By having your thoughts often upon them. ib. 2 By keeping your bodies under them. 241 3 By adorning your souls with beauty. 242