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Oas
the excelleney
of the
Sonói
unto
us,
they
account
all
recotnpenced in
foul
-
mercies in
Eph.
r.3.
Bleffed bee
the
God
and
Father of
our
Lord Jefus
Chrifl,
who
bath
bleffed
us with all
fpiritual
bleffings
in hea-
venly places in Chrift."
Mark
what
the
Apoffle'faith
there,
his
heart is
filled
with this,
Bleffed
bee God
,
and
the
Either
of
our
Lord
Jefru
Chrifl
;
Wherefore?
that
hee bath given
us
good
trading
, and
good
incomes, that
bath given
us
food
and
rayment
,
wee are
to
biefs
God
for
this
I
but the
A-
pofiles
heart
was above
this, therefore faith
hee
,
Bleffed
bee
the God and
Father
of
our
Lord Jeffs,
Chrifl,
who
bath
bleffed
us with
all
fpiritual
bleffings
in heavenly
things
in
Chriff, they
are
the bletlings
indeed that
wee have caufe
to
biefs him
for,
fpiritual bieilings
,
_foul-
mercies; as for bodily-mercies,
wee
know
that the
Heathens and Reprobates
have had
as
great
a
share
in
as
any
in
the world
;
but bleffed
bee
God,
though wee bee
denied
thefe
outward
bodily
favours,
yet
wee
have
fpiritual
biedlïngs. Oh thanks
bee
to God
,
and
the
Father
of
our
Lord
Jefus
Chrifl ,
who
hash
bleffed
to
withfpi-
ritual
blefsings
in
heavenly places in
Chrif
.
And this
now
would bee
a
good
argument that
you
do
know
the
worth
of
your
fouls,
if
you
can be
Meiling
of God
for fpiritual bief
fings
in Jefus Chrift,
above all ble(pings,
and
account
your
felves
rich
enough,if
you
have the
riches
of
fpiritual
bleflìngs
And then
further, Oh
if
the
foul
of man
bee;
fo precious,
What
great pitty
is
it that God fhoüld
not havethe
honour
of
mens fouls, of
fuch
a noble and excellent creature it
is
great pitty that there
íhould
bee any creature
under
the
Sun
that God
íhould not
have
the
honourof
;
that
God
íhould
not
have honour from every pile
of
grafs
,
from every
bit
of
bread that
is
eaten, from
every
ftone
in
the
Greet
:
But
now
that God íhould
give
to
mankinde
fuch
an
excellent
fpirir, a
foul more
precious
than all the
world,
and
yet
that
God
íhould
not
have
the glory of this , Oh
this
is
an evil
thing
under
the
Sun
indeed
, this
muff
needs go
to
the
heart
of
God;
for the truth
is,
God
bath his,
glory
from
all
other
creatures by
the
foul'
of man.
As
for
other
creatures,
hee
#itch
his
glory but
palíively
from them
but for mans
foul
.hee
doth