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s
on
the
Exeellesscy
of
the Soul.
But fuppofe
God fhould
let
a_
man
gain
what
hee
}vill
(though many
men
feek for
gain
by
finful
wrfies,
and
God
crones them
in
it,
they
have nor their
gain, and
yet
they
are datnn;:d
eternally
for feeking
gain)
but
fuppofe
a
man
had
gotten
all
the
world, as
hee
would defire,
and
yet this
man
wicked and lofing
his
foul,
hee
is a
moil miferable
man:
Nov
this
is
the thing
that
I
hake
tondo,
to
flew
unto
you
what
a
poor
gain
a
man bath
that
is
wicked,
though
hee
bath
got
the world, when
hee
hatb
cafl
uF
alt
his
reakoi
gos,
it
may bee
Paid
of
him,
as
wee ufually fay of men
that
have
got
little,
They
may
put
all
their gain
intheir
eye, and ne-
ver
fee
the
worfe
:
So
certainly,
if
thou haft fought
after
gain
in this
world, in
fuch
dwayas
thou
haft
not
provided
for
thine
own foul,
when thou
cornet
to
fv,mnae
Sup
all
thine
accounts, tbon wilt
fee
that
very
little
is got
:
There
are
many wales
whereby
a
man
may come
to
fee
all the
glory
in the
world to
bee
but darknefs
:
By feeing the
glory
of
God,
the glory of Chrifi,
and
the
infinite confequence
of an
eternal
eflate; thole three
things
make the
fpiritual
man
to
look
upon
all the glittering vanities
of
this
world,
but
as
tier
darknefs, and
as
nothing
:
-
But now there be
three
ether things
that
may help
a
natural
man to
fee
the
things
of
the
world
to
bee
as
nothing,
:
and
the
g
iris
of
it
to
bee
very poor
gain,
(I
mean one
that
is
not
fanelified,
that
bath no grace.)
The
fitti is,
If
God do
but
*are
to
wound
his confci
ence,
and terrifie
hire, hee
will fee
all things
to
bee
poor
things
indeed.
Or
fecondly,
When,God laies
his
hand upon
him
in
aFá
fl:6ting of
him,,
uponhis,fick
-bed,
or
upon
his
death-bed.
It
is
reported of
MHfauásu,;
th
at.
when
-hee
lay upon
his
death-
bed,
and
his
friends
coming about
him, and
feeing
what
a
poor condition
bee
was
in, that
had
been
an
eminent
wor-
thy Inflrument.
of God,
and
an
excellent
Preacher
in
his
time,
and they
mourning
for
the fad condition
they
faw
him
to
bee
in,
O pie/ft./mots
?
fay
they;
as
bee
lay
in
his
bed bee over
-heard
them,
Fumus, faid
heel
that
is,
O
what