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5
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On
the Excellency of the Soul.
is
the fame
:
So
the
things of this world
,
wee
may
raise
them
up very high
by
our
fancies,
but
there
is
na
more
re-
al good
in
them
than
there
was
before,
they
are
but
sha-
dows
,
and though
a
mans
íhadow bee longer
or
shorter
yet
a
man
grows
not
longer
and shorter
with
his shadow
;
fo,
though
a
mans
eftate
bee more
or
lets
,
yet
his happi-
nefs
doth
not
grow more or
lets according
to
his
eltate
;
therefore
till,
what doth
it
profit
a
man
if
hee
gains
the
world
?
why
Nee
gains a
fhadow,
hee gains
that
that
bath
nothing
in it,
hee
gains
a
fancy,
a
dream,
and hee
lofes
his
foul
for
all
this.
Seventhly,
Further,
fuppofe
there
were fome
reality,
yet
there
is
nothing that
can fattsfie the heart, )fu.
55.
Why
da
you lay out
your
loony
for that
that
is not
bread and for that
that
fats
fies
not?
Onely Grace
is
that
that
fatisfies
the
foul
;
thefe things have
fo
much
mud
at
the bottóm,
that
you
cannot
have
a
full draught
of
them. -
--
And betides;
there
is
a
curfe
of
God upon them,
that
they
fhoul d
not
fatisfie;
yea
God bath
fo
fafhioned the
hearts
of the
children
of
men,
that
they
shall never
bee
fatisfied with thefe`
things
:
And the eager delire
after
thefe things,
comes from
a
great
difiemper
;
juft
as
Maids
and
Women that
have
green-
fckneffes,
or
thatlong;
you
shall
have 'them
long for
coals,
it
may
bee,
and
dirt,
and fó.green
fruit,'.'
but
though
they
Jong
for
it,
yet
this
cannot
fatisfie
them,
vvhy,becaufe
it
is
but
trash
:
So
the
heart of
a
man
or Woman
that
longs
for
the
things
of
this
world,
why
it
is
in
a-
diftemper,
as one
that
longs
to
feed_upon
-dirt,
they
may
feed upon them,
but
ne-
ver
bee
°.fatrsfied
with
them.
ighthly
Yet
further;
how can
the gain of
the
world
,makelup the
lofs
of
any
fpiritual
good?
for
one
that
goes
can
in wales
of
loofenefs,
that
foul, whatever hee
gets
in
the world, hee
bath
1r
without
God,
God
in
his
ordinary
:providence
may
aft
it
in, but
bée
hash
it
without
the Net-
ting
of
G,ûd
with
it:
What if
a
man had never
fuch
fine
'flowers in
a
Gardën, if
the
Sun
should never
Thine
upon
them
?
truly
fo
it
is
w.th
many
wicked
men,
thçy
have
brave
and