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on
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
35'
and
the
pride oflife.
Take pleafures, and riches, and ho-
nours, do but fee what
the
Scripture fpeaks of them
all.
Firft, For
fenfual
pleasures,
you
think they
have
a
great
deal of reality
in
them,
why
in
the
Scripture
phrafe
they
are
nothing
,
in
Amos 6.
compare the former
part
of
the
chapter
with
verf.
t
3.
verf.4.7hat
ye
upon
beds of
ivory,
and
firetch
themselves
upon
their
Couches, and
eat
the
Lambs
out
of
the
flock,,
and
the
Calves
out
of
the
midfi of
the
flail,
that
chaunt
to
the found
of
the Viol,
and invent
to
themfeves
in_
firuments
I
?ke
David,
that
drink wine
in bowls,
and
anoint
themfelveswith the
chief
ointments, but
they
are
net
grieved
for the
afflictions
of
f
ofeph.
Here
is
the pleafures
that
thefe
men liv'd
in, defcribed;
but
mark
what hee faith, in
verf.
i
3.
Tee
which
rejoyce
in
a thing
of nought
:
You
do reioyce
in that
which
is
nothing
;
all
thefe pleafures,
thefe
brave
tnerriments,
when you
get
into
a
Tavern, there
you
drink,.
and
vaunt,
and have pleafure and
mufick, and
what
a
brave
life
is
this
?
I hut,
yee
that
rejoyce, faith
the
Holy
uhoft
,
in
a
thing
of
nought,
it
may
bee
a
great
matter
in your.eyes,
I
but
the
truth
is,
it
is
nothing;
that
is
for
Pleafure.
Secondly
,
For Riches fee
the
teftimony of the
Holy
Ghoft
concerning
them, in
Prov.
2
3. 5..
Wilt thou
fet
thi;
e
eyes
upon
that
which is
not
?
That
which-
bath no
being
at
all
;
no, it
is
only
grace and vodlinefs,
that
is
that that
hath
a
teeing,
Pray.
8.
21.
That I
may cause
thof
that
love mee
to
inherit fubíiance,
Junius turns
it,
to
anherit
that
which
is;
you
think
that
the things of
grace
are
but imaginations,
and
only
worldly things
are real
,
no, the
things of
the
world
are but fancies, and the things
of
grace are
real.
Thirdly,And then the third
is for
Honours, Aet.2 5,2
3.And
on
the morrow
when
Agrippa
was come
and
Bernice
with great
btETócao-7\A>
Pomp
;
With
much
fancy,
it
was
but
all
a
fancy, and the
cpx.y-
rau;as,
truth
is, the excellency that
thefe
things of the world have,
it
is
an excellency
that
our
fancy puts upon
them;
as
a
peece
of
gold
that
heretofore
was
but
twenty
shillings,
it
is
raifed
up
to two
and
twenty íhillings;
I
but
though
men
may raife
is
up in their fancies to
bee
worth more,
the
gold
is