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on
the Excellency of the Soul.
God
by
your owning
.of,
this,
vvoulcl a
little
but raife
'your
fpirits to
think
that
you have
been deluded and
deceived
all
this while
:
this
is
the excellency
now
of
your fouls,
in refe-
rence unto God.
Fifthly,
And yet
there
is
in the next
place A
farther
re-
ference
thatyour
fouls have
to
God,
and that
is the contikaity,
as I
may
fo
fpeakovith
God
hinifelf
:
that
is,
of all
things
thát
are here in
this
world,
the
foul
of
man it
is
that
that
is
next
unto God
himfelf
:
Next to God,
you
will
fay, what
do
you
mean when
you fay
that
the
foul
of
man
it
is
contiguous
un-
to
God
?
I
mean
this,
that God
hath made all creatures
for
himfelf,
but hee
bath
made them
all for
Enifelf
to
come
to
him
by
man;
hee..
bath
made all thefe inferiour
things
in the world for
man,
and man for himfelf, and
fo
God
comes
to attain the end of
all things in this
world
by
man,
fo
that
man
is
next unto
God
:
God
would have
the
glory
of all
the creatures
in the world,
but how?
by
man:
faith
God,
All
thefe
things
that
I
have
made,I
will have
them
bee in
fubleaion to
man, for
fo
they were
in
their
firft
Creation;
and
as
I
fnall
appear in
all
other
of
my works,
fo
fhall
this
creature honour mee, and fear mee, and
admire
mee,
and magnifiemee, upon the taking notice
of, and re-
ceiving
in that
good
that there is
in
any
creature
:
All the
goodnefs
there
is
in
the
creature,
it
comes
to mee, but
how
?hall
I
have
the
glory of
it
all
?
why,
I
will
make
a
creature
that
(hail bee
as
it
were
between
mee and other creatures,
that
fnall
partake
of the nature
of
.other
creatures
,
but
fo
as
hee (hail
have
a
certain kinde
of
divine Beam
of
my excel-
lency, and fhall bee
able
totake
notice
of
mee and to
re-
ceive
in
my
goodnefs;
what hee doth receive in of
the
fweetnefs
of the creature, hee fhall receive
it
in
as my
fweet, and
my
goodnefs; Incoms from-mee; and
fo
hee
(ball
reflea
it
upon
my
face
again;
fo
that
mans
foul
is
like
a
Glafs;
as
you
fee
a
Glafs
that
takes
the
beams of the
Sun
that
fhines upon
it,
and calls
it
toward
the
Sun
again,
as
upon
await;
the
beams of
the
Sun
comes
into
the Glafs, and
then
the Glafs can
real
it
thisway, or that way:
So
the
glory of
God