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On
the
Exceilency
of the
Soul.
36
i
Mailers,
but either
bee
wilt hate the
ene,
and
love the
other,
or
ere
bee
will
hold
to
the
one,
and
defpife the other,
yee
can-
tor
ferve
God
and Mammon, faith Chrift
:
You
cannotthink
to
have your
hearts
fet
upon
the
world,
and your
gain, and
yet
ferie
the
Lord;
but
if
your
hearts bee
fet
fo
upon your
eftates,
you
will
make
bold
with
God,
you
will
venture
up-
on the
waits
of
fin, for
the
gaining of the
things
of
this
world;
but
mark, The Pharifees alfo
who were
covetous,
heard
all
thefe things, and
they derided
him;
the
word
in
Etctiµurcágt-
the
Greek,
is,
They blew
their
nofes
at
him;
as
a
man when
t
°V
av-rev.
hee
fcorns and
derides another, hee
will
flew
it
by his
nofe;
fo they
in
a
kinde
of
fpeaking
in their nofe, in
a
jeering,
fcorning way, they
derided
jefus
Chrift,
that
talked
after
this
fafhion, What,
that
a
man cannot
ferve
God
and
Mammon
too, that
a
man cannot
look after the things
of
the world,
and the things
of
God
too: Carnal
hearts, they
do hear things
in Religion,
as
unfavoury
things,
whofe
hearts
are after the things of the world.
And
fo
not
onely for
Riches, but
for thy
Credit:
Haft thou
not often ventured
to lye,
to
fave
thy
credit in fòmething
, and haft
been
more troubled when thou haft been
difcovered in
any thing
that
makes againft thy
credit, and etteem,
than in the
fin
that
thou haft committed againftGod
?
Now
by fuch
kinde
ofevidences
it
is
clear, that
men
injoy
the
world
in
fuch
a
way,
as
wherein
they
are like
to
lofe
their fouls
to all eter-
nity;
and now, Oh
do but
look
upon
your
eftates
that
you
have, and do but think
whathey
coft
you, and
little
corm
-
fort
you
will
have
in
them.It
is
obferved
of
David,when bee
did
long
for
the
waters of
the
Well
of
Bethlehem,
and there
were men ventured
their
lives
to
get
him
the water;
when
it
came
to
him, bee would
not drink of
it,
Oh
it
is
the
price
of
blood
!
fo
when thou
lookeft upon thy
eftate, and fitteft
at
thy
table,
and feeft
that
thou haft more
there than
other
men, and
lookeft
into
thy
Cheft, and there thou
haft plenty
Of
Garments,
and
thy
children are
fine
and
brave,
and
the
like;
thefe are
pretty
things for
a
while
to
pleafe
the
fancy
with,
I
but what
do
they
colt
?
as
hee
that
would reckon
Z
z
his