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on
the
Excellency
of the
Soul.
The Excellen-
cy
of
che
Soul
difcovered,
z
In
its
rela-
x;on
to God.
ráife them very
high
above thofe
poor emptyvanities
that
they
have
ininded
all
this
while
:
7herefcrethere
is
in man
not
onel
y
afoul,
but
that
that
is more worth
than
all
the'.
world,
that
if
it
(hould
bee
loll,
that
man that gained
the
whole
world,
would
bee
a great
lofer
in
his
bargain.
Know-therefore
this
,
that-there
is
not the
pooreff
man
or woman living
,
nay
not
the poorer
childe
that
lyes
beg-
ging
'a
cruft of bread
at
your
door
,
but
this
childe
hath
a
foul in
iothat
is
more
worth than heaven and
earth,
this
poor
ragged
tattered childe-that
Ives
in
rags
,
I
fay,
crying
at
your
threshold,
and
begging
a
peece
of bread,
it
hath
a
foul
init
that
hath
greater excellency
than the
Sun,
Moon,
and
Stars
, thud all the Heavens
,
than
the
Sea
,
than
die
Earth,
put
all
the
creatures in
the
world
together,
that
are
under
Angels
,
the fpirit of this
poor
childe
hath
more
ex-
cellency
no
it,
than
all
thefe things, and that
is
the
thing
that
I
am
to
make out
unto
you.
Why natural
life bath
More
excellency
in
it
than
any
creature that bath
no life.
I
remember
Auflin
faith
of
a
Flye,
becaufe ithhath
life,
that
it bath
more excellency
in
it
than the
Sun
its
felf
, becaufe though the
Sun
bee
a
glori-
ous
creature ,
yet
it
hath
not
life
in
it; life in
the
meaneft
creature
hath
a
greater excellency than
any
thing elfe
that
harh.not life.
But now the
foul
hath
the
highefi
natural
life
that
is,
and
capable
of
The
higher
happinefs
that
any
creature
is
capable of,and therefore more excellent
than
all the
world;
But
that
wee
4iall
come
top
in
its
order.
The excellency of
the
foul may bee
difcovered,
firfl,
In
the
relation
it filih
to
God
God
Both chal
lenge
a
peculiar
relation to the
fpirits
of
men;
and
therefore in
beb.Y
2.9.
Cod
is
called the Father
of-
'fpirits
,
Shall
wee
not
much ra-
ther lee
in
fubjealon
to
the
F7-Cher
of fpirits
and live
?
As
if
God
did
üöt
fo much-166k
after
,
and regard
your
bodies,
the
outward man,
but
hee
is
the
Father
'of
fpirtrs.
And
in
Zeck. 12.1. There
is
likewife an
expreílon
to
the
faine
purpofe
,
T
hat
God
did form
the
fpirit
of
man within him:
God