The Loss of the Soul Irrecoverable

"St. Chrysostome hath well observed with the anatomists, Omnia Deus dedit duplicia, God hath, in the frame of man's body, given him two eyes, two ears, two hands, two feet, and the like, that the failing of the one might be supplied by the other: Amman vero unam. Yet he hath given him, saith he, but one soul; so that if that be lost, there is no supply to be had. Nebuchadnezzar may lose his kingdom, and it may be restored. Job his health and wealth, and they may be recovered. Lazarus his life, and he may be revived. But, for the loss of the soul, no means can repair it; no price can redeem it; all the world cannot recompense it; being once lost, it is lost irrecoverably."