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death_n	day_n	soul_n	time_n	4,764	5	3.5646	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90260	The souls excellency or, A sweet meditation of the preciousnesse of the soul of man. A subject fit for every man and woman in the world, to fixe their best and choisest thoughts upon: who desire to begin heaven here, and to live with God in heaven for ever. By J.O.	J. O.	1648 (1648)	Wing O7; Thomason E1189_16; ESTC R208303	9,123	21

of infinite ages Consider that the body without the soul is but a corrupt carkasse and the soul without God is but a Sepulcher of sin Daily study God in Christ get better acquaintance with him it will make thee happy in thy soul in thy body in thy family in thy calling he that hath Christ shall be a gainer by all things life long or short is gaine riches or poverty is gaine prosperity or adversity is gaine liberty or imprisonment is gaine good report or evill report is gaine honour or dishonour is gaine What poore soul is there in this wide world that would not trade in such a commodity that brings in all gaine and no losse O my deare soul soare up daily in Communion with Jesus Christ who is thy true and perfect gaine Lastly Consider that all we doe while we live in this vail of teares is or should be for eternity and we hazard the ruine of our poore and precious souls for eternity we would count that man a very foole and worthy to beg his bread that having faire demeanes and a rich trade that would bring him in thousands and with all a time limited to enjoy it and after the end of that terme he must be turned out of all only to live upon what he had formerly gained and treasured up or else starve and perish Now if this man should squander away his time wast his demeanes spend up his stock run himselfe into an unrecoverable debt and at a certaine day be turned out of all naked and miserable truly few or none would pitty him But poore creatures it is so with the greatest part of the world the Lord hath given us a limited time here in this world great demeanes and a rich trade that would bring in Millions and ten thousand Millions that is he hath given us his glorious Gospel which daily reveals more and more of that inesteemable treasure Jesus Christ here 's treasure indeed Oh my friends trade apace for your souls for what is all this continuance of Gospel and Gospel opportunities and offers of grace yea free grace and eternall salvation but for thee who ever thou art to trade in for thy spirituall advantage Now wo unto thee if thou squander away thy time and wast thy rich treasures and dye an unrecoverable nay an eternall begger But thou mayst gather honey while some lasteth harken to the voyce of Christ while he calls lay hold upon him take him on his own termes Isa 55.1 Ho every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come yee buy and cat ye come buy oile and milk without money and without price Here is Christ freely tendered with all his graces and this is your feed-time he that expects to reap the benefit of a fruitfull harvest must not sow Teares and Thistles for such as a man soweth such shall he reap And he that lives under Gospell disspensations and will continue in unbeliefe drudging for the Devill all his dayes let him expect such a harvest at the end of his life Friends in the conclusion let me mind you of one thing that England is now sensible enough of at this day in a temporall way which is that we live in a hard and pining time many thousands languish under bodily scarsity let me tell you you have loathed heavenly Manna and willingly starved your precious souls and I must tell that it is just with the Almighty to starve your bodies first and then to destroy both but that his mercie is very large and he is unwilling to destroy a people that do not willingly refuse to come in unto him These unquiet hard times should now put us upon making provision for the safety of our souls and I hope it wil be your chiefest work if you have any care of them you know not the youngest of you how neer an end your day is make haste as death leaves you judgement shall finde let this comfort every poor soul that you can never be so willing to receive the Lord Jesus as he is to embrace you if you will but lay down the Arms of rebellion and come in unto him therfore now whilst he saith Seeke my face say thy face Lord will I seeke and when he saith Come unto me all yee that are weary c. Say Come Lord Jesus come quickly a day in the house is better then a thousand c. My soule longeth yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord c. What will it profit a man though he win the whole world if he lose his own soule FINIS

souls O! my dear friends be warned betimes and make all your worldly employments and your temporall gaine to be suborinate to the eternall peace of your souls make not earthly imployments heavenly impediments use the world no more then may make you more fit for the spirituall welfare of your Noble and most precious souls Woe to you Drunkards ver 11. that can rise early to follow drunkennesse and to you that continue till night till the wine inflames you it will be a sad bargain to you if you drink away your souls and while you drownd your estates and your wits and health you drownd your poor souls in the bottomlesse gulfe of hell Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as with cart ropes ver 18. surely it will goe ill with you one day if you for the profit or pleasure of your sin lose your souls O my beloved set a greater prize upon the soule then to sin away the eternall blessednesse of your souls Woe to you who ever you be that call evill good and good evill that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse ver 20. c. Will you thus flatter away the happinesse of your immortall souls ô poor people what will you doe if you lose your souls Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes ver 21. c. your wisdome is but folly and madnesse how many be there that thinke if they have but wisdome enough to drive on an earthly designe to be skilfull in trading or in Arts and Sciences or the like thinke themselves happy enough though they be as ignorant for their souls as the beast and is not the greatest number of poor mankind in this condition and yet poor creatures tell them but of their grosse ignorance they will be ready to fly in your face and tell you they know as much as you can teach them and they are as wise as your selfe and they scorne to live so long in the world to be taught what is good for their souls now and the like but alas all this while the Holy Ghost tels them they be but fools or at the best there is more hope of a fool then such a man Prov. 26.12 And the same spirit of God tels you what you get by reproving such Prov. 9.7 8. alas poor creatures will you not pitty your own souls I pitty you and oh that you would but pitty your selves Truly the most men take more care for their beasts a horse an oxe a sheep a hog or a good dog then for their souls nay they take more care for their old shoos then for their souls for a pigg or a goose then their souls for a cup of ale or a piece of bread then for their dear and precious souls nothing so base and inferiour under the Sunne but it is looked after with far greater pains diligence and industry then the immortall soul any thing for back or belly more then for the soule hence it is that men are so glad to heare that the soule dies with the body that it is not immortall and some that 's there no such thing as a day of judgement or a heaven or a hell that the Scriptures are but mens inventions that threatnings are but bug-bears to keep men in awe and a thousand such things as those that so they may more safely and securely sinne away their precious time without any thoughts of the hazard and losse of the soule therefore they can put far from them the evill day and make a jest of sinne But these men shall be no president for me to walke by seeing the soule is so precious and the losse of it so irrecoverable the price of it so great and happinesse of it so full of joy unspeakable and full of glory Worldlings take your fill eat drink get you riches and honours yea fill your selves brimfull with whatsoever the world can afford you but let not me taste of your delicates ô my soule my soule is ten thousand times more precious to me and so much the more precious because it was bought with the precious bloud of the Lord Jesus Christ for whom I account all things losse and doe judge them to be dung that I may winne Christ and might be found in him c. Phil. 3.7 8 9. this makes my soule leap for joy My body is from the earth my soule from heaven woe is me if for transitory profit or pleasure or honour or the like I should lose my own soul Farewel the world then there 's nothing in thee that can satisfie my soul welcome Christ Jesus in whom satisfaction is made in abundance Farewell all earthly pleasure and treasure my treasure is in heaven there lye all my comforts there will I treasure up my soule where Christ my treasure is Lord Jesus thou art my souls refuge my soule is so much the more precious because it is in thy keeping and no man or devill can take it out of thy hands Shall the pleasure or profit of sin carryme headlong to destruction shall I hazard my precious soule for honour case or preferment shall my own will be my law or my own opinion my rule shall I embrace every false principle in Religion and drinke in every unsound Tenent and dangerous and damnable Doctrine that the world swarms with in these dayes to the ruine of my soule No my soul cost more then so the precious bloud of Christ was not thought too deare for to redeem my soule and shall I cast it away for a straw or a pin Beloved you see how precious a piece the soul is but you have but a small glimpse of it at a little crevice the worth and excellency of the soul appears not in open view now while we are in this earthly tabernacle but here we see all things darkly as in a glasse but the beauty and excellency shal be most splendent when corruption hath put on incorruption But I say thrice happy are you if you now at last will resolue to study the safety and eternall welfare of your precious souls neglect no opportunity to do your souls good Besides consider what hath been said Death gives no warning As soone comes a Lambes skin to the market as an old sheeps it is an old Proverb which we see daily verified Carry this paper daily in your pocket and the meditation thereof daily in your hearts and think of that dreadful sound Arise yee dead and come to judgment Consider also the longest day hath his night and Methusalem had his period and our lives are compared to things of the swiftest motion and shortest continuance he that hath passed many yeares and purchased little profit hath had a long being and a short life for life is more to be measured by well doing then by the number of yeares seeing that men yee the most of men by many dayes doe procure many deaths and others in a short space attaine to the life