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on
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
343
are
wee
?
fmoak,:
Many
a
carnal
man
in
the
time
of
his
ficknefs,
and apprehenuion
of
death,
will
fay
,
that
all
this
world it
is as
nothing.
A
third thing
that
may make
even
a
carnal heart
to
fee all
the
things
of
this
world to
bee
as
nothing,
It
is
flrength
of
Reafon; though
there
fhould
not
bee terrour
of
confcience,
or any
afktions,
yet
ftrength
of
reafon may difcover
the
gain
of
this
world to bee
as
nothing,
in comparing
of
it
un-
to the
foul;
and
this
ftrength
of
reafon
God
is
pleated
fo
me-
times to
fanaifie
by
his
Spirit, when
it
is
helped
by
the
Word,
by
the
fan&ified
reafon that
there
is
in
the Word;
I
fay, when
it
is
helped by
that,
then God'bleffes it
fo as
to
work
off the heart from the
world, to the
things
that con-
cern
the
ever!
afting
good
of
the
foul
;
And it
is
that that
I
thall
fpeak
to
at
this time,
to
convince
you
what
a
poor
thing the gain
of theworld
is, even
by
flrength
of
reafon
,
and yet
fuch
reafon
as is
founded upon the
Scripture.
--I
have
already (hewn
you
thethings
that
maymake
a
fpiritual heart
fee
a
vanity in all things in
the world,
as
the excellency of
God,
and
of Chrift, and the
confeque.nces
of eternity; Now
the other two,
terrour
of confcience, and afflifio,ns,
they
are Gods
work,
and
God,
when
hee pleafeth
to
Phew
the
vanity
Of
the
World,
loth
ordinarily bring them upon the
creature; but now
for
the third way
of
God, to difcover
to
the creature
by
the
fantihed
faving
work
of
his
Spirit,
the
vanity
of
all things;
I
(hall.
indeavour to
{hew
it
yoù
by
ftrength
of Argument
and'Reafon
out
of
the
Word.
As
Firft,
Surely though
thou fhouldefl gain the
world,
and yet
bee
a
man
that art
like
to
perith at laft, thou haft
gotten but little;
and
it
appears iirft
in this,
that
all
chore
that ever
came
to have
true
wifdome; and
that
are in
Scrip
-
ture
commended
for men
of true wifdome, they
have
loo'kt
upon all the things
of the world
as
very poor
things
:
---
Firft,
What
do
you
think
of him
that
was the wifeft
man
up-
on Earth
(meer man)
even
Solomon?
that
had the
greateft
experience
that
ever man
had, of
what good, the
honours,
.
itgleStfigsJA
profits
of
the
world could
do;
and yet
after