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aaz
On
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
to
men. Many have
this Turkilh
difpofition,
that
are
dogged and cruel
to
thofe
of their
own
kinde, to
thofe
that
have immortal
fouls
together
with themfelves
,
though
pittiful
even to brute-
beafts. This
is
the
firfi
Ufe,
Look
upon all
that
have
thefe
fouls with an honourable re-
fpeei
,
confideting they
have
that that
is
of
fo
much
worth.
î.1e°1,
And
then
fecondly
,
If
mans
foul
bee of
fo
much
worth,
how
can wee look upon many people,
but
have our hearts
railed in the
meditation of
the dreadfulnefs
of
Gods
Juflice
upon
men
for
fin
?
thus, God
hash
made
man
an
excellent creature ,
and given
to
every one
a
foul more
worth than the world
;
but
now when wee look upon
Come
people
that
have loft
the
beauty
of their
fouls , and
notiv
have
no other
ufe
of their
fouls
, but
it
may
bee
all
their
dayes
to
bee imployed in fcraping
of kennels,
and
raking
in the dull-heaps
in
yourft
reets,
in
attending
upon
horfes
and
fwine, and this
is
all
that
they have
to
do
in their
lives
:
oh
what
a
low
condition
is
man
fallen
into , that
hath
no
other
ufe
of
fuch
a
rational immortal
fubftance
that
Cod
hath
given
him ,
but
meetly to make
him
ferviceable
all
his
daye
~,
to tend
fwine, beafts, horfes, fcrape kennels
,
and
fuch
kinde of things
as
thefe are
!
But
you
will fay,
It.
is
lawful
for
men
to bee imployed
in
thefe, and
poor
people
muff
bee imployed
in them.
That
is
true,
It
is
lawful to bee imployed
in
fuch things
,
but
now
,
when men
and women have
fuch poor
and
meals
employment, and have
no higher thoughts
but meetly
to get
bread
by fuch imployir
eats
, and their
fouls buffed
all
their
dayes about nothing elfe
but
thofe
things,
this thews
the
woul
fall
of
man , and manifefis
a
dreadful fruit of
Gods
juf
ice upon the
children of men
for
their fin,Certainly,Max
that
we
made
in
honour is become
like
the
beafi<
that
perifteth
in
this
regard
e
And
when
wee
fee
the condition of
men
to
bee
fo
low
Co
bafe
andvile
as
they
are,
fo
beneath the
ex=
cellency of
a
rational and immortal foul
;
Oh
let
us
raife
our thoughts
to
the meditation. Gods divine
Juice,
it
is
a
fear-