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On
the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
you
rather
fave
your
Ruffet
plain fuit,
or
a
Leather
fait,
than
a
fuit
,,of
Velvet,
and
go
to
gee.
executed
in it.
I
have
read of
c hryfaftom,
who being
invited
to
a
feaff,
as
hee
was
a
going,
bee
met
with one
a
going
to execution,
and
it
fell
out
that
the way to execution
was
a
very
fair
way,
but
-the
waythat lead
him
to
his
friends houfe,
it
was
a
dirty
.Lane,
and
hee
makes
this
meditation of
it
,
Oh
how
much
better
is
it
to
go in this
dirty
Lane, to
go
and re;oyce
with
any
friend, than
in
a
fair plain
way,
and
go
as
the
other
doth
to
execution
!
hee was
-not
willing to
go
his
way,
though
it
were
a
fair and
plain
way, but
rather
to
go
his
own,
though
.a
foul
and
dirty,
.
hee éon(idered
that
the
end
of
the
way was
different
:
So
do
not
look much upon
men
and women,
what
their prefent condition
is, but
look
what their end
is
like
to
bee,
and
do
not
envy
them.
I
fup-
pofe
you
cannot
but have
heard
the
flory
of
a
poor
fouldier,
that
having
a
command
from
his
General
not
to
touch
any
thing
upon pain
of
death, yet
coming
by
a
Vine,
takes
a
bunch of Grapes;
the
General
being very flri6l,
hee
con-
demns him
to
dye,
becaufe
of
his
difobedience, and
as
bee
was
going
to
execution, hee
went
eating the
bunch
of
Grapes;
his
fellow
-
fouldier
rebuk'd
him
,
but
hee
gives
him this anfwer,
/pray
yee do
not
envy
my Grapes
to
major
they
coil mee
dear:
So
truly
wee have
little
caufe to
envy
the
men of
the world their
Grapes,
that they
have
their
mirth, their
merry
-
meetings,
whatfoever they
have,
for
it
is
like
to
cofl them
dear,
it
is
like
to
coli them their
fouls
,
they
indanger
their
eternal
perifhing; and therefore
there
is
no caufe at all
to
envy
fuch.
David indeed
was troubled
a while
when
hee faw
the
profperity
óE
the
ungodly.,
1'fal.
93.
but
when
ghee-
went
into the
SanEtuary, there
.hee
,;:lnderf
ood
their
end
Oh my
prethren,
you
are come
intoltheSantu-
ary, you are
come now
in the
exercife
of
theWord
thus
to
hear what
is
like
to
become
of
ungodly men,
that
inJóy
.all
the world
for their
portion, their end
is
like
to
:
bee
the
lofs
-
of
their
fouls
eternally;
d©
not
envy
them Thou
doff
envy
them,
and fuppofe
that
God
fliould fayt
o
thee;
well,
it