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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30150	The greatness of the soul and unspeakableness of the loss thereof with the causes of the losing it : first preached at Pinners-Hall, and now enlarged and published for good / by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1691 (1691)	Wing B5531; ESTC R26566	95,284	145

ways and doings which is the terriblest Judgment under Heaven And this brings me to the third Thing the which I now will speak to 3. As the Soul receives detains entertains and willily worketh to bring Sin from the motion into act so it abhorreth to be controuled and taken off of this work My Soul loathed them says God and the●● Soul also abhorred me My Soul loathed them because they were so bad and their Souls abhorred me because I am so good Sin then is the Cause of the Loss of the Soul because it hath set the Soul or rather because the Soul of love to sin hath set it self against God Wo unto their Souls for they have rewarded evil unto themselves That you may the better perceive that the Soul through sin has set it self against God I will propose and speak briefly to these two things I. The Law II. The Gospel 1. For the Law God has given it for a Rule of Life either as written in their Natures or as inserted in the Holy Scriptures I say for a Rule of Life to all the Children of Men but what have Men done or how have they carried it to this Law of their Creator let us see and that from the Mouth of God himself I. They have not hearkened unto my Law II. They have forsaken my Law III. They have forsaken me and not kept my Law IV. They have not walked in my Law nor in my Statutes V. Her Priests have violated my Law VI. And saith God I have written to him the great Th●ngs of my Law but they were counted as a strange Thing Now whence should all this disobedience arise ● not from the unreasonableness of the Commandment but from the Opposition that is lodged in the Soul against God and the Enmity that it entertains against goodness Hence the Apostle speaks of the Enmity and says That Men are enemies in their Minds their Souls as is manifest by wicked works This if Men went no further must needs be highly provoking to a just and holy God yea so highly offensive is it that to shew the heat of his anger he saith Indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every Soul of Man that doth evil and this is evil with a witness of the Jew first and also of the Gentile that doth evil that breaketh the Law for that evil he is crying out against now But 2. To speak of the Gospel and of the Carriage of sinful Souls towards God under that dispensation The Gospel is a Revelation of a sovereign Remedy provided by God through Christ for the Health and Sal●ation of those that have made themselves objects of wrath by the Breach of the Law of Works This is manifest by all the Scripture But how doth the Soul carry it towards God when he offereth to deal with it under and by this dispensation of grace Why just as it carried it under the Law of Works they oppose they contradict they blaspheme and forbid that this Gospel be mentioned What higher affront or contempt can be offered to God and what greater disdain can be shewn against the Gospel Yet all this the poor Soul to its own wrong offereth against the way of its own salvation as it is said in the Word of Truth He that sinneth against me wrongs his own Soul all that hate me love death But further The Soul despiseth not the Gospel in that revelation of it only but the great and chief bringer thereof with the manner also of his bringing of it The Bringer the great Bringer of the Gospel is the good Lord Jesus Christ himself he came and preached Peace to them that the Law proclaimed War against he came and preached Peace to them that were far off and to them that were nigh And it is worth your observation to take notice how he came and that was and still is as he is set forth in the Word of the Gospel to wit First as making peace himself to God for us in and by the Blood of his Cross and then as bearing as set out by the Gospel the very Characters of his sufferings before our faces in every tender of the Gospel of his grace unto us And to touch a little upon the Dress in which by the Gospel Christ presenteth himself unto us while he offereth unto sinful Souls his peace by the Tenders thereof 1. He is set forth as born for us to save out Souls 2. He is set forth before us as bearing of our Sins for us and suffering God's Wrath for us 3. He is set forth before us as fulfilling the Law for us and as bringing of everlasting righteousness to us for our covering Again As to the manner of his working out the Salvation of Sinners for them that they might have Peace and Joy and Heaven and Glory for ever 1. He is set forth as sweating of Blood while he was in his Agony wrestling with the Thoughts of Death which he was to suffer for our Sins that he might save the Soul 2. He is set forth as crying weeping and mourning under the Lashes of Justice that he put himself under and was willing to bear for our Sins 3. He is set forth as betrayed apprehended condemned spit on scourged buffeted mocked crowned with Thorns crucified pierced with Nails and a Spear To save the Soul from being betrayed by the Devil and Sin to save it from being apprehended by Justice and condemned by the Law to save it from being spit on in a way of contempt by holiness To save it from being scourged with guilt of Sins as with Scorpions To save it from being continually buffeted by its own Conscience To save it from being mocked at by God To save it from being crowned with ignominy and shame for ever To save it from dying the second Death To save it from wounds and grief for ever Dost thou understand me sinful Soul He wrestled with Justice that thou mightest have rest he wept and mourned that thou mightest laugh and rejoyce he was be●rayed that thou mightest go free was apprehended that thou mightest escape he was condemned that thou mightest be justified and was killed that thou mightest live he wore a Crown of Thorns that thou mightest wear a Crown of Glory and was nailed to the Cross with his Arms wide open to shew with what freeness all his Merits shall be bestowed on the coming Soul and how heartily he will receive it into his bosom Further All this he did of meer good will and offereth the Benefit thereof unto thee freely yea he cometh unto thee in the Word of the Gospel with the Blood running down from his Head upon his Face with his Tears abiding upon his Cheeks with his holes as fresh in his hands and his feet and as with the Blood still bubling out of his side to pray thee to accept of the Benefit and to be reconciled to God thereby But that saith the

to shun the profession ●f Christ to save it shall lose it upon a worse account ●han if he had lost it for Christ and the Gospel but ●e that will set light by it for the love that he hath to Christ shall keep it unto life Eternal Christ having thus discoursed with his followers a●out their denying of themselves their taking up ●heir Cross and following of him doth in the next ●lace put the Question to them and so leaveth it ●pon them for ever saying For what shall it profit a Man if he shall gain the whole World and lose his own ●oul ver 36 As who should say I have bid you ●ake heed that you do not lightly and without due consideration enter into a profession of me and of my Gospel for he that without due consideration shall ●egin to profess Christ will also without it forsake ●im turn from him and cast him behind his back ●nd since I have even at the beginning laid the con●deration of the Cross before you it is because you ●hould not be surprized and overtaken by it unawares ●nd because you should know that to draw back from ●he after you have laid your hand to my Plough will make you unfit for the Kingdom of Heaven Now ●●nce this is so there is no less lies at stake than Sal●ation and Salvation is worth all the World yea ●orth ten thousand Worl●s if there should be so many And since this is so also it will be your wisdom to begin to process the Gospel with expectatio● of the ●ross and tribulation for to that are my Gospellers in ●his World appointed And if you begin thus and ●●ould it the Kingdom and Crown shall be yours for as God counteth it a righteous thing to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you so to you who are troubled and endure it for we count them happy says James that endure Jam. 1. 12. and 5. 11. rest with Saints when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel c. And if no less lies at stake than Salvation then is a Man's Soul and h●s all at the stake and if it be so What will it profit a Man if by forsaking of me he should get the whole World For what shall it profit a Man if he shall get the whole World and lose his own Soul Having thus laid the Soul in one ballance and the World in the other and affirmed that the Soul out-bids the whole World and is incomparably for value and worth beyond it in the next place he descends to a second question which is that I have chosen at this time for my Text saying Or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul In these Words we have first a supposition and such an one as standeth upon a double bottom The Supposition is this That the Soul is capable of being lost or thus 't is possible for a Man to lose his 〈◊〉 The double bottom that this supposition is grounded upon is 1. A Man's ignorance of the worth of his Soul and of the danger that it is in And the second is for that Men commonly do set an higher price upon present ease and enjoyments than they do upon eternal Salvation The last of these doth naturally follow upon the first for if Men be ignorant of the value and worth of their Souls as by Christ in the Verse before is implyed what should hinder but that Men should set an higher esteem upon that with which their carnal desires are taken then upon that about which they are not concerned and of which they know not the worth But again As this by the Text is clearly supposed so there is also something implied namely That it is impossible to possess some Men with the worth of their Souls until they are utterly and everlastingly lost What shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul That is Men when their Souls are lost and shut down under the Hatches in the Pits and Hells in endless perdition and destruction Then they will see the worth of their Souls then they will consider what they have lost and truly not till then This is plain not only to sense but by the natural scope of the words What shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul Or what would not those that are now for sin made to see themselves lost by the light of Hell Fire for some will never be convinced that they are lost till with rich Dives they see it in the light of Hell Flames say what would not such if they had it give in exchange for their immortal Souls or to recover them again from that place and torment 1. The first is That the loss of the Soul is the highest the greatest Loss a Loss that can never be repaired or made up What shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul that is to recover or redeem his lost Soul to liberty I shall observe two Truths in the Words 2. The second Truth is this That how unconcerned and careless soever some now be about the Loss or Salvation of their Souls yet the day is coming but it will then be too late when Men will be willing had they never so much to give it all in exchange for their Souls For so the Question implies what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul What would he not give What would he not part with at that day the day in which he shall see himself damned if he had it in exchange for his Soul The first Observation or truth drawn from the words is cleared by the Text what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul That is There is not any thing nor all the things under Heaven were they all in one Man's Hand and all at his disposal that would go in exchange for the Soul that would be of value to fetch back one lost Soul or that would certainly recover it from the confines of Hell The redemption of the Soul is precious it ceaseth for ever And what saith the words before the Text but the same For what shall it profit a Man if he shall gain the whole World and lose his own Soul What shall profit a Man that has lost his Soul nothing at all though he hath by that Loss gained the whole World for all the World is not worth a Soul not worth a Soul in the Eye of God and judgment of the Law And it is from this consideration that good Elihu cautioneth Job to take heed because there is wrath saith he beware lest he take thee away with his stroke when a great Ransom cannot deliver thee Will he esteem thy Riches no not Gold nor all the Forces of Strength Job 36. 18 19. Riches and Power What is there more in the World for Money answereth all things that is all but Soul-concerns it