237 / 1054
On the Excellency
of
the
Scut..
227
.
men
make
of their
fouls,
onely
to
keep
their
bodies
from
finelling, and from corruption.
secondly
, Wee
dishonour our fouls
when wee imploy
them about low and
mean things
unworthy
of them
,
an i
make
them
to
bee the chief
things
that
wee imploy
them
about
;
It
is
the mifery
of
man
fo
to do ,
that
I
fpake
of
be-
fore
,
and
it
is the
fin
of
man
fo
to do
:
How many
men
that
have
fuch
precious
immortal
fouls
as
there
are
,
know
no
higher good
to
imploy
them
about, than to bee it
may
bee
all
day
or
night
in
fhuf
ling
a
pair of
Cards,;
or
calling
of
Dice,.
or at
Tables
?
there
is
the
higheft good
that
they
know
how to imploy
their
fouls about.
What
a
poor
mean low
thing
is
this,
what
a dishonour
to
fuch
a
foul
as
this
?
If
fo
bee any
of
you
have fervants
that
are
of
good breeding,
good
parentage
,
that
are
of
excellent
parts,
that
have lived
long
with you,
that
have
skill
in
your
Trade,if
you
should
fet
them to do nothing
but
pick ftraws
they would account
it
a
great
dishonour
put
upon them.
(-Truly
what
do
you
with
there
precious
immortal
fouls
of
yours
that
are
fo
much
worth, even
more
Than
the world
,
but imploy them
in fuch
poor things,even
to
pick
í
}raves
as
it
were?
if
a
man fhould
have
pearls, that
every
one'
of 'them
were worth
a
King
-
dome,
andhee
ihould
know
no
other
ufeto
make
of
them
than to
flopholes
in Mud
walls,
one
would
think
it,
as
to
bee
great
folly
in
him fo
a
great
dishonour
put
upon thofe
pearls
that
are
of
fo
much worth-; why your fouls are more
worth
every one
of.
them
than
all
the. Pearls and King;
domes in the
world,
and for.
you
to
do
nothing elfe but
fpend the
flrength
of
your fouls
about
gathering
of
a
little
dirt
together
herein
this
world
, it
is a .gi
eat
dishonour
to
your fouls.
Wee
have
a
flóry
of
Domitian-
that
Iva;
a
great
Empe-
rour
,
and yet
hee had
fuch a low
and mean
fpirit
,
as
that
.hee
would fpend
the greateil
part
of
his
time in catching
of Flies.
This is recorded
of
him
as
an argument
of the
lownefs
and meannefs
of
his
fpirit,
unworthy
a,
man of fa
great
a
di;nity'
:
ph
fo
our
fouls
that
_God .hash
made
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