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On
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
24t
him
:
Oh
let
your thoughts
rein
much upon your
fouls,
I
amthus
and thus
in
regard
of
my
outward
eilate in re-
-and
of my
body,
through Gods
mercy
I
have
all
my
limbs
and
fenfes,
and comfortable provifion
for it
:
on
but my foul,
how
is
it
with thee?
bee often
conferring with
your fouls as you
kp..
w
one
friend loves
to
confer
with
a-
nother
:
Can
you
fay
you
love
fuch
a
friend that
is
your
next neighbour
,:
and
never fpend any time
in
conference
together , fcarceever fpeak one with
another
?
Certainly
fo
it
is
with the
fouls
of
men
,
they
think but
little of
the
tearms
that
their
fouls
are in
with
God,
of
what conditi-
ons their
fouls are
in, whether
good or
bad
,
and the day
is
yet to
come
wherein many
a
man
hath
fpent one
half`
hour
in conference with
his
foul,
to
know how
.tearms-
do
Band
between
his
foul
and the Almighty
God Oh
love
your
fouls by
thinking on
them
,
and thinking
often
what
thould
become of
them.
a,
And
further
,
love them by making
them'Emperefl"es
of
your bodies,
by
keeping your bodies
under them
:
Thofe
that
the Scripture
fees
out unto
us
which
have
had
the
moft precious
fouls ,
they have ever more
beat
down
their
bodies ,
and
lee-
t
them
low
:
You
know
Paid
that
was
one
of
the
moft preci<.as
fpirited
men
that
ever lived upon
the
face of
the
ea
-h
,
yet
faith
hee,
I
be down
my
body,
I
beat
it
black.and bte» , teft
after
I
have
preached
to
others,
I
my
felf
'become
a
Reprobate
;
hee
did not think
his
h
appi-
nefs
to
confift
in-
pampering
his
body,
no, but
hee
beat
it
down,
and
therein hee fhewed
his
tote
to
his
foul,
in
that
hee
made
his
foul
to bee
ExnperefS as
it
were.
k
is
the
fpeech
of
a
learned
man
upon thole
Words,
Subdue
the
earth,
that
is
thy body, and
all
earthly
things, to
that
fpiritual part
of
thine, thy
foul.
If
one should
tell
you pviat
the ancient
Martyrs,
and
worthy
Inftruments of
God that
were
precious-
men in their
time
,
how
hardly
they
of
d
their
bodies, it
would hardly bee beleeved
by
you; but
this
is
certain,
there
was
never
any
that
knew
the
true
worth-
of
their fouls,
but they
made
them the
Em-
H
h
pe.efres