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an
the Excellency of the Soul.
life
5.
cellentfouls,for that
is
the
heft
part
of
man.
But fifthly
,
If
the
foul
of man bee
fo
excellent
,
Oh
let
us blefs
God for
ourfouls
,'
.
biefs
God
,
I
fay
,
tlaat bath
given
unto
you
thefe immortal
fouls
that
are of
fo
great
a
w
otth
:
-Oh
what caufe have every one of
you
to
biefs
God that
bee did not
make you a
Toad
,
a
Dog
,
a
Snake,
that
bee did
not
make
you
any vile
brute
creature,
but that
when
you
were
before
.
him
in
the
common lump out of
which
God made
his
creatures
,
that
hee would
rather
choofe' you
to
bee one
that
fhould have an immortal
foul,
fo
precious,rather
than to
bee
a
brute
creature
?
Biefs
God,
I
fay
for this,,for
by this
means,
Fira,
You are
cooked
upon by
the
Angels
themfelves,
with
honour,
and
with,
;refpe
till
fuch
time
as
the
Angels
certainly
know your
Reprobation , and
that
you
bee fent
down to hell':
Though you bee wicked for
the
prefent,
and
your
fouls
bee defiled
,
yet
the
Angels know
nothing but
that
thefe fouls, though
now much
fallen
from God
,
may
bee
fuch
as
may live:
with
them
to
injoy
eternal
communi-
on with God together
widh
them
,
and
thereforethey
look
upon you withrhonour:
And the providence
of
God
it
is more
towards you,than
towards
any
other creature
in
the
world. Doth
God
take
care for Oxen
?
faith
the
Scripture
True
,
the providence
of
God it
is
over
all
his
works,
there
is
not
the
leaf}
worm
that
flies
without
his
providence
:.
I,
but
doth
God take
care
for Oxen?
that is,
as
if the
Holy Ghofl there fhoutd fay,
the
providence of
God
over
other
creatures,
it
is
nothing
in
comparifon
of that it
is over
the
fpirits
of men, over
thofe
that
have immortal fouls
When
God
looks upon
the
creature ,
that
bee'
hath
given,
an
immortal
foul
too,
why
faithGod
,
My
Providence shall in
a
fpecial manner
bee over
this foul
:
And
certainly
the
thoughts
of
God
have
been from all
eternity
working
towards thofe
that
have immortal fouls, in
a.
more fpecial manner
than
to-
wards
any
of
his
öther creatures
;
how ever you think of
God
, yet
that
is
çertain
,
God
bath
had
his
thoughts
to-
wards