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On
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
259
Firft,
Becaufe
the
body
all the
time
a
man doth live in
this
world,
it
was
the
onely
or
mofl
immediate inftrument
that the
foul
had
to
work
and
to
fin
by
:
And
certainly
God mull needs hate
that body,
and
curie
it,
that
did
be-
low, to
the
foul,
becaufe it
was
the
only
inllrument
of the
foul
to
fin
by.
Secondly, Miferable mull the body alto bee
,
becaufe
when
fuch
a
loft
foul
shall bee
united
unto
the
body,
the
very extremity
of
the
foul
mull needs
bring mifery
upon
the
Body
alto
;
as
thus,
When
Chrifl had
the
apprehenfions
of
his
Fathers wrath and difpleafure
in
his
foul , how
did
it
work upon
his
body even
fo
as
to caufe even clodders
of
blood to
fall
from him
?
Now,
what caufed this pain in
his
body,
but
the terrors of
God in
his
foul
?
and
if
it
was fo
with Jefus Chrifl,
that
had
but
fin
imputed unto him, then
certainly
the body of
a
damned creature mutt needs bee
in
very great
and dreadful
torment, to
which
this foul
is
uni-
ted.
If
a
holy
man
cried out
,
Thy
arrows
flick,
fafl
in
wee
and
thy
hand
prefeth
mee
fore,
there is no'foundnefs
in my
pfal' 38,
,,.
3
lefh,
becaufe
of
thine
anger,
neither is there
any, reSI
in my
bones,
becaufe
of
my
fin.
1
fay,
if
the anger
of
God
caufed
this mifery
unto
Davids
body for
his
fin
,
what
mifery
will
that
bee when all
the faculties of
the foul
(hall
bee
filled
with the wrath of
God
to their
utmofl capacity
?
O
then,
I
fay, what
dreadful
evil
and pain will
there
bee
unto
the
body
united unto
fuch
a
foul
I
The
fecond
aggravation
of
the
lofs
of
the
foal, it
is
this,
That
when
it
comes
to
bee
in this loft
condition
,
then
it
comes
to
bee in
the deadfulleft and moll miferable con-
dition that
any
Creature
is
in,
except
the Devils
them
-
felves. The Scripture
tells
us;
it
is
an evil
thing to have
riches kept
for
a
mans
hurt
:
But
O
then what an
evil
is
it,
and
will
it
bee, for
a
man to
have an
immortal
foul
for
his
hurt?
this
is
the condition
of
a
loft
foul.
The third
aggravation
of
the lofs
of the
foul,
is
this,
It
will have
none
to pitty it,
in that its
miferable loft condi-
tion
it
is
in.
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