Sermons on the following subjects .. . SERMON IV. The Folly of lofing ones Soul to^ gain the whole World. Matt. xvi. 26. For what is a man profited^ if he jhallgain the whole Worlds and lofe his ownSouH U R Saviour in his Parable of S e r Sower, reprefents to us ^^•the incredible Carelefsnefs q£ ^^^^f^^men, in the moil importantmatters of Religion, by avery remarkable Comparifon : As fomefeeds, fays he, fall by the way-fide, andthe fowls come and devour them up; fjwhen any one heareth the Word of theF 3 King-. yo The Folly of lojing ones Soul S E R M. Kingdom and underJlandeth if not^ i.
Sermons on the following subjects .. . SERMON IV. The Folly of lofing ones Soul to^ gain the whole World. Matt. xvi. 26. For what is a man profited^ if he jhallgain the whole Worlds and lofe his ownSouH U R Saviour in his Parable of S e r Sower, reprefents to us ^^•the incredible Carelefsnefs q£ ^^^^f^^men, in the moil importantmatters of Religion, by avery remarkable Comparifon : As fomefeeds, fays he, fall by the way-fide, andthe fowls come and devour them up; fjwhen any one heareth the Word of theF 3 King-. yo The Folly of lojing ones Soul S E R M. Kingdom and underJlandeth if not^ i. e. at-^ tends not to it, nor fixes his Mind upon ^^^^ it, then cometh the wicked one^ and catch-eth away T^hat which was/own in his Meaning iss not that the Devil hasPower literally^ to fteal mens Knowledgeout of their minds, and rob them of theirreligious Notions > but that men are fre-quently fo carelefs^ even in things whichthey themfelves well know to be of theutmoft importance to them; that the de--gree of their negligence cannot be Trulyreprefented by any lower figure, than byfuppofing them to have even loft out oftheir Minds Thofe Notions, to which theygive fo little attention. St Paul has aPhrafe no lefs expreffive, GaL iii. i; Opolijh Galatians^ who has bewitched you;that you^ before whofe eyes fefus Chriji hasbeen twid^nxXy fet forth, yttjhould r,ot obeythe Truth ? That men fhould have theTruth evidently fet before them, and yetnot obey it; is fo great an Abfurdity, thathe reprefents
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