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on
the Excellency
of
the
SON!.
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fearful fruit of the
j+zílice
of
God
upon
man for
fin;
what,
is
this
the creature that bath
an immortal
foul
made
by
God
snore worth
than
ten
thoàfard
worllds
?that
lies
fcraping from
morning
to
night
in
á
kennel,
and bath no
other
thoughts
foL
anpbigher excellency,but
onely
if it
can
geta
lump of bread
to
live
by,
there
is
all
they
have to do,
as
if
they
were
born
for no
other
end?
Oh
?
think
thet,
is this
the
creature
that
hat`fach
an excellent
foul
?_
furely fin bath
made
a
great breach between
God and man,
and
hath
brought
inair
-ende
into
a
very
love
and mean condition, and
yet
worfe are
thofe
than thefe
that
have
no other ufe
of their
fouls
than
to
bee drudges to the
Devil,
and
!laves
unto their
lulls,
but
ofthis
wee
ihalt
fpeak
to
more afterwards
;
but
now
1
onely
mention
it,
as
to
give
a
hint
to the
meditation
Of
Gods juftice
upon
man
for
his
fin.
Thirdly,
If
the
foul
of
a
man
bee
of
fo
great
an excel-
lency
,
then certainly
it mail
needs
bee
an honourable
work for to
bee
buffed about fouls, an honourable. implóy-
ment
for
God
to
fet
one
man
or
more to
look
to, and tend
the
fouls
of
others
Oh
!
what
a
difference
is
-there in
the
imployrn:ent
between
working
in Wood
and Iron
all
day
long,
or
fcraping
in
the duff heaps
(as before)
and
in an
im-
ployrnent
of
attending
upon
fouls!
to
bee ufed
by
God
as
the
inflrument
of converting
of
there
fouls,'
and bringing
of
them
to
their former excellency in
which
they
were
made,
yea
and
to
raife
them to
a
higher excellency
than ever
they
had in the
firft
Creation!
If
wee prize
mens
employments
by
the
fubjea of
their
employment,
then certainly
this
is
the
rnoftglorious
imploymentthat
any
Creature
in the world
can
bee capable
of;
what
is
the
reafon
you
account
a
Gold-
finith
a
better grade
than
a Black
-fmith
?
but becaufe
of
the
fubjedl
that the
one works about
rather than the o-
ther
one
works upon
Iron ,
and the
other
upon Silver
and
Gold;
therefore
one
is
a
more honourable
Trade
than
the other
:
Now,
if
the
fubjea
upon
which
they
woek
makes
one
to
bee
more honourable
than the
other; what
Trade
in
the
world
can be
fo
honourable
as
the work of
the
Mini-
ufe
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