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On
the
Extellen+cy
of
the
Soal._
afcend
up
in
their
underflanding
,
and
to
knew all
the
má-
tions
of the heavens
and
can
tell
you
to
a
minute of
an
hour what kinde
of
motions
there
will
bee.,
as
appears
plainly
by
eclipfes
:
The
arts
of Navigation,
that
they
cats
compafs
the world
up and
down
that
way
:
If
it were
but
in
thefe fenfible
things
that
wee fee
fo
much art
in
, as
thefe mighty buildings
,
which
lhows
that
a
man out of
a
deal
of rubbith
can raife
and ere
&
filch
a
building
as
this
is,
this fhows
the excellency ofmans foul; and if there
bee
fo much
excellency in
it
naturally, that
it
can
do
fuch
things, then
what can
it
bee raifed
unto,
and
inabled
unto
by
a
divine power
?
vt
hat
can
it
do when
it
is
inlarged
t.
The
tools
by
grace,
and
made partaker
of
the Divine nature
?
excellency dc-
And
further,
'The excellency
of
the
foot
appears in the
im.
monftrated
mortality
of it
:
Fear
not
them
that
can
;kill
the
body,
and
can
=nom
its
im-
do
no
more.
Certainly if the
foul
were
mortal,
as
the
body
mortality.
is,
then that
man
that
kills
the
body , kills
the
foul
too,
Luke
11.4,5
and therefore wee may fear
a
man
not
onely becaufe
bee
can
kill
the
body
,
but
becaufe
hee can kill the
foul
;
but
faith Chrift , Fear
not
them
that
can
kill
the body,
and
can
do
no
more.
The
foul
is as
an
Eagle,when
a
man
dyes,that
gets
out
of
the
Cage,and
fo
it
Oyes
away;faith
Stephen,when
hee
he
.7.59.
was
to
dye,Lord
Jeftee
receive my
fpirit
:
Why,if
fo
bee
that
his
fpirithad
dyed with
his
body,he
need not
have
faid,Lord
Fh
t.a.z3.
Jefuu
receive my
fpirit.And
fo
Sr.Paul,1 am
in
a
flreight,and
know not
what
t9
do, whether
to
live
or
dye
,
but
hee thought
it
was
better
for him
to
bee diffolved
,
it
was
not to
bee
.deftroyed
,
it
is
but
a
diffolution
,
bee
rather
defired
a dif-
folution, that hee
might bee
with
Chriíl
', which
is
bell of
ali
t
Certainly,it
was this
that
made the
ílreight,
If
I
dye,
I
thail
bee with
Chrill immediately
,
and if I live ,
I
(hall
injoy force communion with him
,
and likewife do
a
great
deal of
fervice for him
:
If
Paul
had
thought
that
his foul
and body
íhould
have dyed both
together
,
certainly
hee
would have defired
to
have
lived
,
rather than to
dye
;
for
when bee
did live,
his
foul did injoy communion with
Jefus
Chrifl,
and
hee
did
do abundance
of
fervice for
him
:
Now