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On
the Excellency
of
the sold,
23g
doth exped to
have
his
glory
aaively
from that
:
that man
by
his foul
Ihould
come
to
know this
God, the
infinite
fiat
-
being
of
all
things, Ihould
fear
him
,
andworjhip him, and
ferve
him ,
and
have
communion
with
him, and
praife him;
and therefore
David in Pfal.
t
o
3
.
My
foul
praife.
thou
the
Lord,
and
ail'that
is
within
mee
praife his
holy
name.
And
a
-,
gain, hee concludes ,
foulpraife
thou
the
Lord.
And
fo
in
Pfal.
104. Now
upon the confiderataon
of what bath
been laid of
the
excellency
of
our
fouls
, wee
thould
lay
a,
charge
upon
them,that
they do honour
God, and
ferve
God
:
What
a
fad
charge
will
this
bee to many
a
man
at the
great
.
day,
when
God
l'hall fay
, Haddefl thou
been made a
Dog,
I
never had had
fo
much
difhonour
as
I
have
had, I fhould
have had more
honour ,if
I had
made thee
a
Dog,
there
I
fhould
have
had my
honour
paflively,
and no difhonoúr
from
thee
?
But now, thou being
made an immortal foul, as
it was capable
of honouring
mee,
fo
of
finning againu
mee;
the
more
excellent
a
thing is,
the more capable of
evil
it
is,
as well
as
of
good
;
no
creatures
,
but
Angels and
men
are
able to
fin againti.
God. Oh
is
is pitty
that God fhould not
have
the
honour
of
thy
immortal foul.
God
had more
ho-
nour from Ne6uehadnezzar
,
when hee
was
driven out
a-
mong
the
beaus
,
than when bee fat upon the
Throne
as
a
King.
And
then further ,
that fhould
have
been another
life,
to
have
laboured to perfwade
you
to
take heed of difhonour-
ing
thefe
fouls
of yours.
God
hath
put
a
great deal of
glory
and excellency upon them
,
do not
you
difhonour
them;
and
many
wayes
thould
have
been laid
how
men do put
difhonourupon their fouls;only for
the
conclufion
;
Oh that
you
would
but
learn
to
love your ownfouls
To
love
them.
It
is
a
orange
exhortation you
will
fay
to
exhort men
to
love their
fouls
:
Oh
that
you
would
but
do
it,
Pfal.
z2.
David
calls
his
foul
his
Darling,
the
fouls
of
men should
bee indeed their
Darlings, not
their
bodies.,
It
was
a
fpeech
of
a
Courtier
to,his
friend
,
faith
hee, I
love
you
as
mine
own
foul;
Oh
faith
hee,
theft
you
love mee not at
all
G
g
if