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On
the
Excedletscy
of
the Soul.
reafon
that
Gods own
dear
fervanrs should have
fo
little
of
the world, and
ohers
fo
much,
it
is,
that
bee
might
hold
this forth to all
the
world,
that
the things of
this
world
have
but
little
in
them.
Fifthly,
And confider
but
the next
Argument
which
fob-
lows upon
this, and
is
of
a
near
kin
to ir,
That all the
things
of
this
world,
the
pleafures, profits, honours,
they
furely
have no
great matter in
them,
for they are no more than
may
(land
with Gods
eternal hatred
of
his
creature.
Now
cer-
tainly,
thofe things
that
have no higher excellency
in
them
than
may ¡land
with
the eternal
hatred
of the Infinite
God,
certainly
they
have no
great excellency
in
them;
thofe
things that Reprobates may have, furely have
no
great
mat-
ters
in them,
that that
you give
to
your
Swine,
you make
no
great matter
of
it;
take all
the things of
the world,
they
are
no more than
God
gives
to
Swine,
than
God
gives
to
Re-
probates,
than God
gives
to
fuch
as
hee
Both
eternally
hate;
I
remember
that
Luther
bath
fuch
an exprellion
as
this of
the
Turk
fh
Empire;
Ir
is
but
a
crum
thatthe
great
Malley
of
the
family
calls
to
his
Dogg: Now
if
all the
Yurkifh Empire
be
no more than
a
bit
of
bread
that
you
would
call to
your
Dogg, then what
is
your eflate?
The Lord
who
is
fo
infi-
nitely
rich in mercy, hee can afford
fuch
bones for
Doggs
as
thefe are,
furely
there
is
no
great matters
in
thefe
things
that
Reprobates may
have
as
well
as
children
therefore
you
that
are poor people ( and yet godly) that want
thefe
things,
do you
quiet
your
hearts,
what though you
have
not
fuch
an
eflate
as
others
?
Oh do
not murmure
1
why, it
is
no great
matter
you
want,
you
want but
that
that
God
gives
to
Reprobates
;
Suppofe'a man gains the
world, if
hee
lofe
his foul, what gets hee
?
hee
gets
a
bone that
Doggs
have,
for
the lots
of
his
foul.
Sixthly, Take this
Argument
,
That
the things
of
this
world,
they have no
reality in them
at
all,
no
real
good
in
them,
according
to
the language
of
Scrip
titre,
what are
the
things
of the
world divided into
?
take
the
divifion
that
you
had
before of
St.
John,
The
lxfl
of
the ftefh,
the
lullof
the
eyes,
And