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on
the
Lxcellez
cy
of
the Soul.
4?.
hee bath
gotten
nothing
for
his
foul
that
is
above
it
:
Thefe
are
things
beneath and under
the foul
:
what good would
it
bee
for
a
fouldier
,
if
hee
have.
gilt
his
fcabbard,
but
hee
bath
a
broken
rufly fword
within, or but
a wooden,
fword
within? Therefore
I
finde in Scripture
that
the
bodies
of
men and
women
are
called the íheath
of
their
fouls,
Dan.
7..15.
1
Daniel
seas
grieved
in my
fpirit,
in the
mielit
of
my
body.
So
it
is
in
your
books
tranflated,
but
thofe
that
un-
derliand
the
Original.
Text,
they know
it
is a-word
that
fig
nifies
a'heath,
and
fo
Arius
Montane
turns
it,
and like.
wife,in your
Margents, in the
midfi
of
his
(heath;
and
by
comparing this Scripture with
another, it
is
plain,
that
that
is
the propriety
of the
word,
it
Chron.2t. 27. Where
the
Text
faith,
The Lord
commanded the
Angel,
and
hee
pet
op his
fword again
into
the (heath thereof.
Now
the
word
that
is
here
tranflated
fhearh,
I
finde by comparing
of
them
toge=
ther,that
it
is
the
very fame word
in the Original
that
Daniel
tranflates
body
;
for the body
is
but
as
the 'Beath unto
the
foul,
and
what will
it
gain
a
fouldier to
have
a
brave (heath,
and
in
the mean time
have nothing
within
it
,
of
that
that
is
of
no
ufe
at all
?.
thus
it
is
with
many, they
feek
great
things
for the
;r
bodies,,
but
their fouls
are
left
in
the
mean time
without
any
fuccour or
help, and
in
a
moll miferable condi-
tion;
all
things that
are in the world
thould
bee fervants
to
thy
foul,
for they are
.
all inferiour to
it.
Wee
account it
a
great dishonour to
a
man
to
marry
his
fervant;
a
man
of e-
Elate
in
the world,
if
wee hear hee bath married
his
fervant,
which
is
very
mean,
wee
account
it
a
dishonour
:
Now
for
thy
heart to mingle
it
felf
with
the
things
of
this
world
,
as
its
chiefeflgood,- what
doll,
thou but
marry thy
foul,
to that
which
fhould
bee
thy fervant
?
for
all thefe things
arebut
as
fervants to the
foul;.
and
for
the heart of
a
man
to bee
fet
upon
the
things
of.
this world,
it
is
to
have
the
curfe
of
Chant
to
bee upon him;
A
fervant of fervants
(halt rhea
bee;
for
the
things,
of
the
world they
fhould
bee thy fervants, and
thoulart their
fervant,
and fo a fervant of fervants; the
curfe
o,Cham
is upon,
thee,
when
thou art
a
nave to
thy
cane,
or
thy