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on
the
Excellency
of
the Sou!.
cloaths, and
fuch
kinde of things
;
do
not
think
that
thou
art
happy
in
that
:
for
thefe
are things
that
concern
thy
out
-
ward
man
,
there
is
hill
another
fubfiance
in
thee
that
thou
art to
look
after
,
that
takes
little
notice of
fuch
things
as
thefe
are.
Neither
do you think
that
you have
provided well
for
your
children,
when
you have
provided
an
ehate,
an
inhe-
ritance,
fomewhat to leave them,
know,
that
there
is
ano-
ther fubhance
in
your
children,
betides
that
outward
bodily
fubhance
you
look upon.
Do
you fee
a
fine
feature,come-
ly parts
, comely
countenance
, and
your
children
finely
cloathed?
I
but
know
there
is
a
fpirit in
that
childe
betides
that
bodily
fubhance
that
you
are to
look
to:Certainly
man
is
very
far
fallen
from God ,
that
none fcarce takes
notice
of
his
own fpirit
:
We
do not only
naturally
live without
a
God in
the
world,fo
as
to
know
little
of that
infinite
divine
Spirit that
is
the fira
being
of all
things;
but
wee
live
with-
out
the
knowledge of
our own fpirits
,
of our own
fouls
:
Truly
few
men there are
that
know
their
own fouls.
As
a
man
by his
eye
fees
things
that
are
without him,but
he
Both
not
fee his
own eye;
fo by
the
foul
wee
come
to
underhand
many things without
us
but yet
how
little
do wee
under-
hand
of
our own fouls
?
well
might
the
Pfalmih
therefore
complain, and fay,in
Pfal.q.g.zo.
Man that
is
in honour,and
stndergandeth not,
is
Ike
the beafis
that
perifh.
God did
in-
deed
make
man
at
fir&
in honour ,
but
now hee
is become
like the
very
beans,
hee doth minde
little
or nothing
more
than the
very beafis themfelves bee blelles himfelf
if
hee
hath
but
content
for
the
body for
a
while
,
as
if
there
were nothing elfe
concerned him;
I
appeal
unto
your
con-
fciences
in
this
thing, whether the
uttermoh
fphere of
your
thoughts have
been
any
further
than meerly
within
thecom-
pafs
of
bodily
content
:
If
you
fhould
come to
a
beat+, and
talk
to it
about Trades
and
titles
of
honour,
and
Arts
and
Sciences,
and
fuch
kind
of
things
,
why
what
is all this to
a
beak
?
Give
a
beak
hay
or
corn
,
and
fuch
inde
of
things
that
are
fuitable
to it ,
and
it
mindes
that
more than
it
dcda