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On
the Excellency
of
the Soni.
z43
whole world
,
and
lofe
his
own
foul
?
This
was
wholefome
counfel
;
and
certainly thetight meditation and underthand-
ing of
this
Text would bee of admirable ufe
to
every
foul.
You have in
the words
thefe two things
plainly
hinted.
Firn
,
That
there
is
in every
man
a
foul
,
a
.ffiiritual
fub-
fiance,
befides
what
is vifible
and
fenfible.
And fccondl
y
,
That
this foul of
man
is
more
worth
than
all
the
world
,
it
hath
that
excellency,
that
if
a
man
gains
all
the
world
, and
!o'er
that
,
when hee
hath
call
up
his
aceount
,
hee
mayput
his
lams
sn
his
eye
,
hee
(hallfinde
himfelf a mi
ferable
creature.
Wee
might make
more divifions,
or fubdivifions
of the
words,
but
I
will
content
my
felf onely
with thofe two
things, and fpeak
chiefly
to the
latter.
Now to
make
way
for
that,I
will fpeak
a
little
of
the
former,what
is
a
man
pro-
fited
i
f
he
fhalllain
the
whole
world,and
lofe
his foul? his Seul.
Every man bath
a
foul , a
rational fpiritual fubflaiice be-
yond
that
that
is
vifible or
fenfible; in Job
32.8.
But
there is
a
.pit
in
man,and
the
in.ffiirationofthe
Almightygiveth
piers
underfianding.
There
is
a
fpirit
in man betides
the
bodily
fubflance
that
you
fee, there is
a
fpiritin man ,
fuch
a
fpirit
as is
capable
of
the infpiration
of
the Almighty to give
un-
derlcanding,&c. And
in Gen.2.7.
it
is
faid,That
God
form-
ed
man
of
the
du.
il
of
the
earth,
and
breathed
into
his
notrils
the breath
of
life.
Here is another
manner
of
mans
-
creation,
r11tfil
than
of other
creatures
;
God did but
fay
of other
creatures
let
them
bee,
Let
the
earth
bring
forth
creep_
©"
rng things
&c.
And it
was
fo
:
But when
hee comes
to
man,
hee forms
man out
of the
dull;
of
the
earth,
that
is
for
his
body,
and
for
his
fpirit hee breathes
into
his
noflrils
the
breath
of life.
I
have
read of
a
people
that
would nor bee perfwaded
that there
was
any difference
be-
tween
beafRs
and
them And
truly there
is fomewhat to
do
to perfwade carnal hearts
of
any great difference
between
a
bean and them
in
relation
to
God,
or
to
another life
:
But
certainly there
is
a
fpirit in
man
,
there
is fomewat beyond
C
c
s
that