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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96652	A good and seasonable caveat for Christians. Delivered in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Sir Charles Shirley, Knight and baronet, in the parish church of Breedon, in Leicester-Shire. / By John Wilson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in the sayd parish. 7. Octob. 1646. Imprimatur, Jo. Downame.	Wilson, John, of Breedon, Leicestershire.	1646 (1646)	Wing W2899; Thomason E1182_5; ESTC R204901	27,614	71

bee blinde the other may see two hands to the end that if one be weake the other may worke and two feeete to the end that if one be lame the other may walke but he hath given us but one Soule which is a jewel invaluable a jemme immatchable a pearle inestimable Thirdly consider the excellency of the Soule consisting in the inequality that is between it and any thing else what recompence or what exchange shall a man give for his Soule Mat. 16. 26. shall hee give a thousand of Rams or ten thousand rivers of Oyle shall he give the fruit of his body for the sinne of his Soule surely all these are not sufficient to redeeme one Soule Mica 6. 7. nay ten thousand worlds were not sufficient ransome for one Soule nothing could doe it but the precious blood of that immaculate Lamb Jesus Christ this St. Peter affirmes 1. Pet. 1. 19. we are not bought with silver or with gold or with any corruptible thing but with the blood of Jesus Christ as of a Lamb spotlesse and undefiled I beseech you consider then the excellency of your Soule the body of man is a glorious frame yet it is not comparable to the Soule for the body is but the tabernacle the Soule is the mercy-seate the body is but the hand maid the Soule is the mistris the body is but the pallace the Soule is the queene-regent governing in that Pallace the body is but the cabinet the Soule is the precious jewell lodging in it What is it that advances the calling of the Ministery above other callings but only this that it tends to the good of man's Soule the study of the Lawyer tends to the good of man's estate the study of the Physician to the good of man's body but the study of the Minister tends to the good of man's Soule which is the better part The Soule is optimum primum the better part there is nothing like it there is nothing that may be compared unto it Salomon calls it a precious Soule Prov. 6. and a greater and wiser then Salomon puts it in the ballance of the sanctuary and makes it weigh downe the whole world What shall it profit a man saith our Saviour Jesus Christ to win the whole world and lose his own Soule Mat. 16. 26. And I pray see if he bee not a great loser that gaines a world and loses his Soule for suppose a man were sure to live as long as Nestor who is reported to have lived three hundred yeeres and could have his health all that time and never be sick suppose he had as much riches as Cressus as much beauty as Absalon as much strength as Sampson Supposes he had as much worth in him as the Romans ascribe to their Catoes Curioes Fabritioes the Greekes to their Socrates Solon Aristides Homer to Agamemnon affirming that he was like Jupiter in feature Mars in valour Pallas in wisedome suppose all eyes were upon him all tongues spake well of him suppose he had such a glorious fame that men came as farre to see him as the Queene of Sheba did to see Salomon gaze on him as the Aegyptians did once on honoured Joseph the Arabians on fayre Vertomanus suppose men praysed him as much as Tully did Caesar Plato did Socrates let his eares be delighted with as much variety of musick as Alexander had from Timolaus the Thebans from Amphion the Mariners from Orpheus suppose men acted such playes before him as the Romans acted in their Theaters and Amphitheater let men shew him such sports and pageants as the Greekes had in their Olympian Pythian Istmian Athenian and Corinthian games suppose he have houses like Nebuchadnezars Babel Gardens like that of Adonis Orchards like those of the Hesperides suppose he fared at home as deliciously as he in the Gospell Luke 16. 19. 20. and when hee went abroad be feasted with more varieties then Esther entertained Ahasuerus Esth. 7. Dido Aeneas or Cleopatra Mark Anthony let him be attended with more men then Salomon let him solace himselfe among his lascivious concubines as Heliogabalus and Sardanapalus let him hunt more then Leo the tenth hawke more then the Persian kings Card and Dice more then the Thebans and suppose if it be possible that he enjoyed all these pleasures all the daies of his life here yet if he lose his soule hereafter he is most miserable and that sad catastrophe brings more torments then all his former fruitions brought him pleasures consider this I beseech you that your soule is more excellent then any thing you can have and therefore take heede to your selves and keepe your soules diligently 2 Rea. Secondly we should looke so carefully to our soules in regard of the necessity of the salvation of the soule Certainely there are many things which we pursue and seeke after with eager and uncestant labour and desire which are not absolutely necessary such as are riches honours and preferments I may say of these as our Saviour said unto Martha Luke 10. 41. 42. You are troubled about many things but there is but one thing necessary and that is to make your election sure to labour diligently for the salvation of your soules 3 Rea. Thirdly we should looke carefully to our soules in regard of the difficulty of attaining to salvation It is not so easie a matter as some suppose it is to get our soules into Heaven it is easie to fall into sin and so consequently into Hell but it is a difficult matter for that soule that hath once beene entangled in the snares of sin to become retrograde and turne backe againe into the waies of righteousnesse it will be a hard matter for the covetous man whose heart hath beene long imprisoned within the walls of covetousnesse to forsake his covetousnesse and become bountifull it will be hard for the ambitious man whose heart hath beene only set upon honours who hath not feared the greatest hazard or omitted the least opportunity that might further him in attayning thereof to forsake his ambition and become humble In a word it will be hard for any one that once devoted himselfe to sin to become the servant of God and therefore as we are exhorted in my Text we ought to take heede to our selves and keepe our soules diligently in the waies of salvation because that having once wandred out of the right way we cannot with facility returne into it againe 4 Rea. Fourthly we have great reason to keepe our soules diligently in regard of the miserable and wretched condition of the lost soule Certainely had I the tongues of men and Angells I could not relate unto you the wofull condition of the lost soule but this is that which aggravates their tortures beyond compare that as they are ●aselesse so also are they endlesse other losses may be recovered but the lost soule that is cast into the bottomlesse pit of perdition cannot be recovered