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On
the Excellency
of
the
Seul.
221
to
profper
in
this
world,
to
have
a
healthful
hilly
body,
and
to
have
ftature
and
ftrength, and
beauty
;
But
now, if hee
fees
that there bee
any
means for
the
good
of their
fouls,
hee envies
that
,
may
the
Devil
have
but their fouls, hee
cares
not what
they
have otherwayes. But
wee come
to
the
applicatio
.i
of
this
firft
point in
my
Text,
of
the
excellency
of
macs foul.
And the
firft
tlfe
is
this
,
Surely
then
wee ought
to
look
upon every childe of
min
with
fome
reverent
refpec`i
and
honour
;
there
is
not
the pooreft
childe (as
I told
you
the
laft
day)
that lyes crying at
your doors
for
a
cruft,
but
bath
a
foul
in
it
more worth
than heaven and earth. And
the
confideration
of
this fhould
make
us
look
upon the meaneft
childe
,
fervant , the pooreft body,
with
an honourable
efteen
and
refpeS
;
how ever
the
glory
of
their
fouls
bee
darkned
for the
prefent
,
yet they
have
flill in them
fuch
fouls as are
capable
of
a
kinde
of infinite
good, more
than
all
the
other
works
that
ever
God made
,
except the An-
gels
;
do
not
look upon
your fervants
that
are
under
you
with
fcorn
and contem`?t, do
not
ufe
them doggedly
, as
if
theywere
brute
-beafts
;
Remember,though
you
bee
a
Ma-
fier,
a
Miftrefs,
a
Governour,
you are
a
Governour
of
one
that
hath
an
immortal foul,more worth
than
all
the world.
A
good
moll,
faith
the
Scripture,
is
merciful
to
his
beaft,
and
furely then
a
good
man will
bee
merciful
to one that bath
an immortal
foul
,
and
it
may bee an immortal
foul
better
than
his
Governour;
how
many
have
more
refpea
to Dogs,
to brute-
beafts
,
than they
have
to
fervants and children
,
and
poor people,who have
immortal
fouls?
I
have
read
of
the
Turks
,
that
though
they
bee
noted
for moil cruel
people to
men,
as
you
heard
of
their cruelty
to
thofe
in
the.
Gallies,
yet they
are
very
pittiful to brute-
beafis
and
therefore they
will
give
alms
and
fiipends out
of
charity,to
maintain
brute
-beafts
withall
;
and
there is
a
flóry
of
a
youth
that
abufing
a bird
that
had
a
long bill
, was like
to
have
been
Cloned
to
death
in the
filter
they did
fo
hate
cruelty
to
thofe kinde
of
creatures
,
though
they bee cruet
E
3
to
llf:e,