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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