The soul is an intelligent power,
and it can be made to know and understand depths and heights and
lengths and breadths, in those high, sublime, and spiritual
mysteries that only God can reveal and teach; yea, it is capable of
diving unutterably into them. And herein is God, the God of glory,
much delighted--that he hath made for himself a creature that is
capable of hearing, of knowing and of understanding his mind, when
opened and revealed to it.
The greatness of the soul is manifest by the greatness of the price
that Christ paid for it to make it an heir of glory, and that was
his precious blood. We do use to esteem things according to the
price that is given for them, especially when we are convinced that
the purchase has not been made by the estimation of a fool. Now the
soul is purchased by a price, that the Son, the wisdom of God,
thought fit to pay for the redemption thereof; what a thing then is
the soul!
Suppose a prince, or some great man, should on a sudden descend from
his throne or chair of state, to take up, that he might put in his
bosom, something that he had espied lying trampled under the feet of
those that stand by; would you think that he would do this for an
old horseshoe, or for so trivial a thing as a pin or a point? Nay,
would you not even of yourselves conclude that that thing for which
the prince, so great a man, should make such a stoop, must needs be
a thing of very great worth? Why, this is the case of Christ and the
soul.
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