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On
the
Excellency
of the
Sòul:
341
the excellency
of
the
knowledge
of Chrifl 7efuu
my
Lord
for
whom
I
have
[ufered
the lofs
of
all
things, and
do count
them
but"dung,
but
doggs
-meat,
that
I
may win
Chrift.
This
was
the
fleight
ef}eem
that
Paul
had
of
all
the things
in
the
world,
that
men
kept
fuch
a
fir
about.
-
--
And
fo
when
God
did but
begin
to work
upon
Zaccheus,
when
hee
did but
hear
of
the
falvation
of
his
foul,
when
Chrif} did but
tell
him,
This
day
is
falvation
come to
thy
houfe,
prefently
(
being
a
covetous
rich man
that
had
gotten
his eftare
wrongfully)
hee
cries
out ,
The
half
of
my
goods
I
give
to
the
poor,
and
if
1
have
wronged
any
man
by
forged
cavilla-
tion,
twill
reflorefourfold.
And
fo
John
the Beloved
Dif
ciple
of Chrif},
which
lay in
his bofome,
and
therefore
knew
fo
much
of
the
mind
of Chrift
,
you
know what
hee
faith
in
his
fill
Epifl.
2,
t
S.
Love
not the
world, neither the
things that
are
in
the
world,
if
any
man
love
the
world, the
love
of
the
Father
is not
in
him
:
for
all
that
is in the
world,
the
lull
of
the flefh, the
tuff
of
the
eyes,
and
the
pride of
life,
is
not
of
the
.Father.
The lull of
the flefh,
that
is
pleafures and
fenfuality;
the
lull of
the
eyes,
that
is
riches;
and
the
pride
of
life,
that
is
honours
;
thefe
are
not
of
the
Father, but
of
the
world,
faith
Tohn;
you may
think
they
are
great matters, they
may
bee
great
in
your
eyes
,
but
they
are
not
ofthe
Father,
but
of
the
world;
And
the world paffeth
away,
and
the
lull
thereof;
but
hee
that
Both
the will
of
God,
abideth
for
ever.
It
were
infi-
nite to
Phew
you this
both
in
Scripture,
and
likewife
in
the
whole
course
of
the
f}ory
of
the
Church,
how
fleightly
the
Martyrs did
account
all
the things
of
this
world,
as
fooia
as
ever
God
gave
them
any
true
fpiritual
heavenly
wif-
dome;
but
becaufe
that would
coil
a
great deal
of
time,
therefore
wee
proreed
to
(hew by
f}rength
of
reafon,
fur-
ther out
of
the Scripture;
yet this
may convince
rational
men,
that that
which
thewifei
men
in
the
world,
that
have
had
from God
a
tef}imony
of
great
wfdome,
have
thought
to
bee
a
little
matter,
certainly
bath
no_great
matter
in
rt
;
but they
have
thought the
gain
of
all
the
world to
bee
as
no:hing
;
therefore
certainly
there
is
no
great
macre:
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