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lliMagiMinaNgla

vitimterwritsomvvrriorri,viovvrovvrit

The

Third

SERMON

ON

The

Excellency

of

.

the

Soul.

Match.

16.26.

For

what

is a

man

profited

if

bee

fhallgain

the

whole

world

and

lofe

his

own

Soul ?

or

what

'(hall

a

man

give

in

exchange

for

his Soul

?

Shall fpeak

fomething unto

a

tfe

that

was

mentioned

the laft

day,

and

that

was this;

If

God

bath given

unto

us fuch precious

fouls, Oh then

let

not

us

difhonour

our-fouls

:

Difhonour

them,

Why,

how

may a

man

difnonour

his

foul

?

t

Why

firft when

bee lives

idlely,

and

makes no

ufe at

all

of

it,

any more

than if

hee had but the

foul of

a

Brute.

Pfal.24.

S.

fpeaking

of

hitn

that

had not

lift

up

his

foul

unto vanity,

I

remember

the.

old

Latin Arius

Montanus

turns it ,

Hee that bath

received

his

foul

in

vain. And

in-

deedmoli

people do receive their

fouls from

God in

vain,

or

to

no purpofe , they make

no more ufe

of them than

the

Philorfopher

faid

of the

Swine

that

had

his

foul onely

as

fait to

keep

the

kin

from Oinking;

there

is

all

the

ufe

many

men.