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

Use. IF the loss of our souls be so dreadful as you have heard, bless God that your souls are not gone, and thus lost, as hath been opened unto you: It may be thou hast lost thy husband, or thy wife, or thy child, or thy friend, or a great part of thine estate, but blessed be God that thy soul is not lost: In a great fire where men use to lose most, if not all that they have, when a man comes to view what he hath lost, and he finds he hath lost this thing that was in such a parlour, and that that was in such a chest, but if at length he comes to find that such a Jewel that he had in the house, or such a bag of gold, in which most of his estate consisted, that that is not lost, though all the lumber, all the household-stuff is lost, that comforts him in all other of his losses: ⟨p. 267⟩So it should be here, whatever we lose, we are to be comforted in this, that our souls are not gone and lost: It is a notable Scripture, in 1 Pet. 4. vers. last. Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. As if the Apostle should say, you are like to meet with great sufferings, you may likely be deprived of all you have, of your estates, and of all your comforts, and may come to suffer much, yet commit the keeping of your souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator: Why, they might have said, but what shall become of other things? if storms, and tempests, and sufferings come, what shall become of our estates? what shall become of our livelihoods, and of our bodies? why saith the Apostle, as for them, for your estates, for your bodies, it may be they may perish; you are not so much to look after them, but commit the keeping of your souls unto him, as unto a faithful Creator. The Apostle here exhorts them what to do in times of sufferings, and by what he doth express, he doth imply, that they should take no care for outward estate, and body; it is enough that your souls are well, commit the keeping of your souls to him, as unto a faithful Creator, we have enough if that be safe: You know in time of danger, as fires, and other times, if a man hath any precious thing, he carries that presently to some special friend, and commits the keeping of that to him; his writings and such things, wherein his estate is most:

Use. IF the loss of our souls bee so dreadful as you have heard, bless God that your souls are not gone, and thus lost, as hath been opened unto you: It may bee thou hast lost thy husband, or thy wife, or thy childe, or thy friend, or a great part of thine estate, but blessed bee God that thy soul is not lost: In a great fire where men use to lose most, if not all that they have, when a man comes to view what hee hath lost, and hee findes hee hath lost this thing that was in such a parlour, and that that was in such a chest, but if at length he comes to finde that such a Jewel that hee had in the house, or such a bagg of gold, in which most of his estate consisted, that that is not lost, though all the lumber, all the houshold-stuff is lost, that comforts him in all other of his losses: