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the Excellency
of
the
Souk
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down
his
life,and dye
an accurfed
death,
faith Jefus Chrift,
rather
than
fuch
precious fouls,which my
Father
bath made
capable
of injoyment.
of
-fo
much good
from
him
and
bringing glory
to
him
,
rather
than thefe' fhoúld
perish
I
am
content
to corns
and dye
, and fuller
the
wrath
of
my
Father
;
furely
the
price
that
was
paid
for fouls ,
_
dorh
hold
forth the great
titiorchof
them
:
In
the death of Chrifl
wee-may
read
in
large
charaaers the
worth
of
a
foul.
And my
brethren
,
Even
the
body
its
Pelf,
becaufe
it
is
as
7
The
exeai_
the
cafe
of
the
foul, it
is
a
very excellent
thins.
Of
all the
lency
of, Eke
corporeal
things
that
ever
God
hach
made
,
the
body
of
foul proved
nun
is
the moll
excellent thing
,
therefore David in Pfal.
from the
body.
13
9. fpeaking of
his
body,
faith,
verfe 14.
I
amfearfully
and
wonderfully
made, marvello,u are
thy
works,
and
that
my
foul
knowerh
right
well.
And
then
verf.i
5.
My
fubflance
was not
hid
from
thee
,
when
I
was
made in
fecret
,
and curi-
ouflyWrought in
the
lowefl
part
of
the
earth.
When
I
was cu-
rioufly
wrought, the
word
in the
Hebrew lignifies Imbroy-
From
n.,1
dyed
;
the
body
of
man
is
Imbroydery
;
and hence
in
Gen.a.
it
is
laid there, that God formedman, and
here
in
ampingere.
Pfal.139.
God did imbroyder
him
:
And therefore
Gallen
that
was
an Atheift
a
long
time,
when hee came
to
fee
the
Anatomy of
a
mans body, hee cryed
out,
Now
I
adore the
God
of
Nature. Now the Lord bath wrought the
body
fo
curioufly, becaufe
it
is
the
cafe
of the
foul,
and
that
being
fuch an
excellent creature , mull have
a
fuitable
cafe.
As
if
you
have
a
curious
Watch
,
you
will
not put
it into
an
ill-
favoured dirty
leather
cafe ,
but
will have
a
curious
filver
cafe
for
it. Now
becaufe the
Lord did
make
a
curi-
ous
peece,
the
foul
of man,
which was
the
malter-peece
of
Gods creation
, next
to the
Angels
therefore
hee
puts
it
into
a
very
curious
cafe;
this
thews
the
excellency
of
thofe fpirits
that
are within
us;
howfoever
they are
now
de-
filed with
fin,yet
thus they were
made
at
firfl.When
we are
fpeaking
to men
about their own
excellency,
one would
think
that then they fhould attend.
I
have
fpoken
of God
and Chrifts
excellency
,
they
E
e
may