rho Chap. 30. An Esp1'ition upon the Book! of Jos. Verf,i5 foule ofanother, we purfue and profecute him earneftly. It Is laid ofthe Adulrerefe ( Pro. 6; 26.) She will bunt fer the pre. cious life orfault. And theDevil, that migl?ty bunter, is alwayes hunting for the foule ; And doe we not know that both the De- viii and the Adulterefle hunt, as with all their might, fo with un- wearied diligence ? Thus faith yob, they hunt or purfuemy mule; Thefoule in Scripture is often put for the whole man, the perform, and fo 'cis here Only to thewwhit marke Satan chiefely aymed at by all the inftrurnents which he flirr'd up and afted to afflict yob, it is here fayd they purfued his foule. What cared the Devil for his oxen, camels and Affes, which he plundered y the Chal deansand Sabeans ? What caredhe forhis flocks oftheepe which he confumed by fire ? or for his children, whom he deftroyed by a wind ? yea what cared Satan for his body, which he fn-mote with fores and loathfome difeafes? yea what caredhe for his honour, and good name, which he devoured by the foule mouthes of thole abufive mifcreants ? MI that he fhot at through all thefe, was his foule, which he knew would be a morfel fir only for him. felfe, if once he could but provoke him by ail_ or any of ebefe Temptations toblafpheme God and die. They purfsie my foule. And why did the Devil by all his Agents purfue 70b, foule? That reading which our tranflators pur in the Marginofour Bi- bles, may giveus a profitable account or reafon ofit ; They par- flee myprincipal one ; The teat faith myfade, the Margin faith, my" principal) one; we may joyne both in this followingobferva. tion. The foule of man is the principali part ofman. The foule is as a Princeffe in man;The foule rules andgovernes the body, and difpofeth all thenatural motions ofit , even as a Prince difpofeth of all civil motions and affaires inhis Domini- ons. Man aéts not, nor cloth a finger ftirre without order from the foule, and therefore thefoule moít juftly deferves, and molt properlybeares the honour of this Noble Title The Princefe or principal!one in man, As man is a Prince over all the inferior creatures, fo the foule is a Princeffe inman. It will not be either unprofitable of impertinent a while to profecute this notion of the
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