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on
the
_Excellency
of
the
soul.
but
a little
Rain
,'4t
may
keep
you dry
,
but if
it
rains much,_
the
longer
you Hand
under the
Tree,
the
worfe
you
will
bee:
So
the things of
this world
may
comfort
and
quiet
trs
againft
a
little
trouble
-,
but
Riches,
as
I
faid,.
Avail
not
in
the
day
of wrath. They
will
not
keep off
the-
dreadful
Dorm
of
Gods wrath
;
all
thefe-
things
are.
uncertain
,
and will difappoint
us.
Now thefe and
divers
other
Confiderations that
might
bee
added , are the
irength'
of
Reafon ground-
ed
upon the Scripture,,
to
convince
a
man
of
the
va-
nity of all
the things
of the
world.
Now put
all
thefe
Confiderations together
, and
well may
wee
fay_,
as
it
was
faid of the price
that
was
aiven for
Chrift, that
Zechariah
prophefies
of
,,
thofe
thirty
peeces
a
goodly
price
that
was given
for
him.
You hear fometimes of
Judas's
fin
.,
that
hee betrayed Chrilt
for
thirty
peeces,
a
goodly price
;
I
may well apply this
to
your
fouls
,
you
that
venture
the
lofs
of
your
fouls for getting
the
world though
you
could
poibly
.get
all the
world,
..
confidering what
bath
been
faid
,
it
is a
goodly
price;
do
You
not
fee what
a
goodly price is
given
for
your
foul
?
if
thefe things bee
but
made
real
to
you,
it
would
bee
of
marvelous
ufe
to
help againft
any
temptation
to
any
thing
of
this world.
Now
.
you have
Teen
what
darknelê
is
upon
all things,
how
they
are all but
glit-
tering vanities,
and
not
worth
the venturing of the
foul
for, take heed of
hazarding your
fouls
upon
any
of
thefe
.
things,
you
will curie
your
felves
hereafter
when
it
is
too
late; oh
curled wretch
that
I
was, that I
fhould
yet venture upon
fnful
waies
that.I
was
told
would,
in-
.danger
the
eternal,
deftruStion of
my
foul
! and
not-
withl}anding
I
heard what
a
vanity
was
in
all
thefe
things,
yet for
fuch
a
vanity
I"
was
drawn
afide
to
lofe
mine
own foul
well,
you
fee
the uplhot of
all
l,
that
to
venture
your fouls
for
the
gain
of
:
the world
,
it
is
to
venture the'lofs
of
pearls for pebble
Hones
,
to
venture
Gold
for
dirt
,
yea
for dirt
that
:bath,
a
great
.
deal
of
poifon