Having come across Perkins in relation to the Creed, Coco noticed the following words:

Lastly, whereas wee haue learned that the soule of man is immortall, wee are hereby taught to take more care for the soule, then for the bodie. For it can not be extinguished. When it is condemned, euen then it is alwaies in dying, and can neuer die. But, alas, in this point the case is flat contrarie in the worlde: for men will labour all their life long to get for the bodie, but for the soule they care little or nothing at all, chuse it whether it sinke or swimme, goe to heauen or to hell, they looke not to it. This doth appeare to be true, by the practise and behaui|our of men on the Lordes day: for if the nomber of those which come to heare Gods worde, were compared with those which runne about their worldly wealth and pleasure, I feare me the better sort would be found to be but a little handfull to a huge heape, or as a droppe to the Ocean sea, in respect of the other. But wilt thou goe an hundred myle for the encrease of thy wealth, and delight of thy bodie? then think it not much to go ten thousand miles (if neede were) to take any paines for the good of thy soule, and to get foode for the same.

How right he was. David declared in Psalm 68:11 The Lord gave the word. Great was the company of those who proclaimed it. The message that they had to bring was not quite the message that the Lord brought in the following words, but there is much similarity in it for those who see: Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. Matthew 10:27-31jesus should die?

There are many who hear the word, many who proclaim it, but do many come to hear it? It is as true today as it was in 1595 that men care more for their bodies than their souls. Indeed they live as if they have no soul, as so many false and misguided teachers suggest, until one dies and then they speak as if the dead one, who they believed had no soul but only a body yet still lives in some mysterious way.

Many pass by with no thought for their souls, no thought of God, no thought of eternity, no thought to ask why did Jesus die?

All ye that pass by, to Jesus draw nigh:
To you is it nothing that Jesus should die?
Your ransom and peace, your surety he is:
Come, see if there ever was sorrow like his.
Charles Wesley 1707-88