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on

the Excellency

of

the

Son!.

23

ring

that

their

bodies may

bee

fine

,

and

that

they

may

bee

brave

;

and

as

they

look

a

t

their children

,

fo

they

look

at

themfelves

they love their

bodies

to

the

uttermoft

,

to

make

provifion for

the

flesh,

but

no further.

What

a

deal

of

do

would

there bee,

if

when

any

of your

children

goes

abroad, or husband,

or

wife,

If

you

fhould hear

that

they

have

gotten

a

fall and

broke

their

legs

or arms

?

but

now

when

you go abroad

,

and fall into

fin

, and

get

a

wound

to

your

fouls,

as

every

fin

it

gives

a

deadly wound,

yea

fuck

a

wound

as

onely the blood

of Jefus Chrift

is

able

to cure

it;

and there

is

nothing

made of all

this,

as

if wee

were

no-

thing

but lumps

of flefh: Oh

have a

care

of

your

fouls,

and

labour

to

love

them

,

and make them to bee your

Dar-

ling

;

you

had

need

have

a

care

of

them,

for

as

they are

precious,

fo

they

are

tender;

as

it

is

with

Watches and cu-

rious

Inílruments,

thole

that

are moll

curious are

the

ea-

fieft

hurt, the

very air

will

put them out of temper;

and

fo

the

fouls of

men,

becaufe they

are things

fo

excellent, they

are

things

of

a

very curious

nature,and

a

little

thing

wil

hurt

them.

As

a

little

thing will

hurt the

eye,

for

that

is

a

more

excellent

member

than

your finger or leg

;

fo

the

foul is

a

more

excellent part

,

and therefore

it

is

that

that

is

mat

in

danger

to bee

hurt

and mifchiefed

,

yea

and

to

perilh

,

and

if

your foul

perifhes,

your body

will

follow

after,

what will

become

of

that

if

your foul

bee loft and

perifh?

but the onely

way

to

love your bodies

,well

and

aright,

it

is

to

love

your

fouls.

The