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On

the Excellency

of

the

Sol.

3

47

the Kingdome

by

flatteries.

---

A

vile perron, and yet

have

the

honour of

the

Kingdoms:, how can this Rand

?

yes

,

it

is

by

interpreters

thought

to bee

Antiochur Epiphane,,

hee

was

advanc'd

to that

mighty

height, that

I

remember jofephas

faith,

that

the

Samaritans in their

letter

to

him give

him

the

44äq.

1.

i2e

Title

of

the

mighty

God;

bee

had

that title

given

to

him by

thofe

that

were

under him,

and

Antiochos Epiphanes,

which

lignifies

illu(trious; Illu(trious

Epiphanes,

the Mighty

God,

and yet the

Holy Gho(t gives him this

title,

a

vile perron;

what

good do

a

few herbs

that

are ftrewn

upon

a

Carrion

do

?

do they make

the

Carrion to bee

lefs

corrupt

and

pu-

trifled

than

it

was?

truly

all

the

bravery

that

wicked

men

have,

it

is

at the belt but

a

few herbs

and

flowers

ßrewn

upon

a

filthy

carrion,

which

makes them

not

to bee

the

bet-

ter

:

The

things

of

this

world therefore in

Scripture are

cal-

led the

things

of

another

mans,

in

Lull;

16. 12.

And

if

you

have

not

been

faithful

in

that

which is another

mans,

who

(hall

give

you

that

which

is

your

own

?

You

may know the

mean-

ing

of

it

by

the

verle before

:

If

therefore

yee

have

not been

faithful

in

the unrighteous

Mammon,

who

will commit

to

your

trufl

the

true

riches

?

The riches of this

workl

are

called

.

unrighteous

Mammon;

now there

are oppofite

to the true

riches,

as

if

there were

not

True

riches,

and then in

verf.

I

z.

If

you have

not

been faithful in

that

which is

another

mans,

that

is,

in

thefe riches

of the

world,

who

(hall

give you

that

which is

your

own? fo

that

nothing

is

a

mans own,

to

make

him

better, but

grace;

the

good

things of

the

foul, they are

a mans own,

but

the other

things

they

are

the

worlds things,

they are

not

a

mans own;

therefore what doth

it

profit

a

man

that

hee bath

gained

the

world?

for

hee

is

never

a

whit

the

better

man.

Thirdly,

All there things

,

they

are

things beneath the

foul, things of an inferiour

nature;

what

good

is

it

for

a

man

that

bath gotten never

fo

much

food,

that

hee bath

laid

up

for

his

horres and doggs,

but hee bath nothing

for

his

chil-

dren

of

"or

himfeif

?

So

if

a

man hath

gotten

the

world,

hee

bath

gotten

fomewhat

for

his

body, his inferiour part

;

I but

X z

hee