Thus, if we consider the capacity of the Soul for happiness or misery, we may learn something of its nature and worth; and surely this ought to serve as a guard against neglect of its welfare. Shall we run into danger, and risk the loss of so invaluable a treasure? Shall we be content that it should remain doubtful whether we shall be saved or lost? Shall we take such a leap in the dark, when, if we be found wrong, there is no remedy? He who once loses his Soul, loses his all. He is like a merchant whose ship sinks with all his property on board. A man may recover many losses on earth, but the loss of the Soul is a loss never to be repaired. _Once lost_, _lost for ever_. Still more shall we discover its worth, if we reflect on:— II. _The price of its redemption_. O! learn the value of your Souls by that astonishing truth, “_God was manifest in the flesh_.” (1 Tim. iii. 16.) “Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor.” (2 Cor. viii. 9.) He became “a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” (Isaiah liii. 3.) He tabernacled thirty-three years in our evil world. He was obedient to the law for man. (Dan. ix. 24.) He was made a sacrifice for sin. (2 Cor. v. 21. Gal. iii. 13.) “He was wounded for our transgressions.” “He was bruised for our iniquities.” “He poured out his soul unto death.” (Isaiah liii. 5. 12.) By all he did and suffered, by the mystery of his holy incarnation, by his holy nativity and circumcision, by his baptism, fasting, and temptation, by his agony and bloody sweat, by his cross and passion, by his precious death and burial, by his glorious resurrection and ascension, and by his second coming to judge the world, an infinite dignity and incalculable value are stamped on the Soul. “Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.” (1 Pet. i. 18, 19.) Shall such a price be paid, and will you not regard your Soul? If immortal Souls were so precious in the sight of God, that he gave his only begotten Son, that through him they might be saved. If they were so valuable in the sight of the divine Saviour, that he did not shrink from laying down his life for their sake, let then your own Soul be precious in your own sight, and seek its present and everlasting salvation through him, for he freely offers you his salvation, yea, beseeches you to accept it at his hands. (2 Cor. v. 20, and vi. 1.) To this end, let it be your immediate object to consider,