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o
on
the
Excetency
èf
the
Sent.
titres
as
are capable
of
it.
Now
it
is
true,
if
you
fhould
dye in
your fins
,
then
it
might
bee faid
at that
inflame
when
you
dye in
your
fins;
that it
had
been better that
yoic
had been
Toads or Serpents
,
or any thing
in
the
world
t
But were
not
this
a
fad thing for
a
man
that
bath
fuch an
excellent nature
,
to
live and
dye
fo
that
they
may
win
hereafter
that
thet
had been
Toads
or
Dogs? how
many are
there that
are willing
,
fo
they
may
live
like
a
beaft,
to
dye
like
a
beaft ,
I
but that
thou
mill
not
bring
thy
felf
to
dye
like
a
beaft, thou
Mutt
be infinitly worfe,
or
infinitly'better
than
the brute beafti. But biefs
God
that
thou halt a
na-
ture
capable of
fo
much
good, whatfoever thou
art in
other
refpec.}s,
though
God
bath made
a
great difference between
thee
and others
that
are
of the
fame
kind&
in thy outward
etiate, God
bath made
a
great deal
of
difference
between
poor and
rich
,
between
a
poor
alms
-body
that
lives
in
fo
mean
a
condition
,
and between
a
Noble-man
,
a Prince,
an Einperour
;
-I
but
this difference
is
made in
the
outward
eflate
and body
,
but there
is no
fuch
difference made
in
their
fouls,
thou
hall
as
precious a foul within
thee
,
that
is
naturally
as
good
as
ever
any Emperour had
in the
world,
fo
Philofophers
fay
of the
fouls
of
men,
mens fouls
are
equal, and
one
is
not
better
than another
by nature ,
what
they are better
by is afterwards , by
education,
or by
com-
mon
gifts
of
the
graces
of God
,
but
by
nature
all
nien
are
equal.
And
therefore
that
wherein mans excellency is,
is in
his foul,
thou
art
as
high
as
any
Emperour
in the
world,and
therefore
it
is
that the
Scripture
would
have no
difference
tnade betweendie
'Ruts
of
men,
in
.E.ieotl,4o.i
5.
you (hall
finde there
by
that
Scripture,
that God
would
not
have dif-
ference made
of the
fouls
of
men,
it
is faid in the
ï..
verfe,
Every
one
that
ptrffëth
among
you,
that are
numbred
frcrri
twenty
years
old
and
above ,
fhall give
an
offering
unto
the
Lord;
God
would
have an offering from every
one
of
them
:
Now
mark
what
bee
faith
in the
i
5.
verfe,
The
rich
f
h
a
l
l
u
r
o
t give
more
, and
the
poor
'hall
not
ri
iie
left
than
half
fhfel
i
kert
they
give
an
'ôf
ercrsg-
swathe ¿ard;te
make
an
at-
tone-