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Excellency
of
the
Sonl.
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heewere
to
preach to all
the
world, hee
would'
chufe
that
Text asfoon
as
any; Oh
yet children
of
men,
why do
yet
love
vanity,
and
follow
after
leafing
l
And
it
were
happy,
if
it
were
alwaies founding
in
the ears
of
every one,
whofe
hearts are
after
prefent things,
fo
that
fuch a
one
may hear
a
voice
behinde
him, laying,
This
is
not the
way, but this
is the
way
,
walk.in it :'
Thou
haft
deceived
thy foul
all
this
while,
and wearied thy
felf, and that
through the
curfe
of
God
upon
thy heart;
as
Rab.
2.
13.
Beheld,
is
it
not
of
the
Lord
of Hafts,
that
the
people
'hall
labour
in the
very
fire,
and
the
people
(hall
weary
themfelves
for
very vanity
?
Is
not
this
of
the Lord of
Hofts
?
So
when wee fee men and wo-
men,
why
they have
underftanding in
the
things of the
world,yet
for
the
matter
of
God,
they have
none
at
all;
They
arevery induftrious and laborious
to get outward
things,
and
outward
comforts of
this
world, and
tire
themfelves;
can
Cit
up
late,
and
rife
early; Oh
is
it
not the Lord
of
Moils
that people fhould
thus
weary, and tire themfelves
?
by way'of
f
militude
wee may apply
it to
the
fpirirs
of
men
,
that
arewearying and tyring of themfelves
after
vanity;
it
is
the
Lords
curie that
is
upon
their hearts.
Itis
faid,
I
re
-.
member, of
Dionyfááu,
that
when
hee was
upon
his fick
-bed',
hee
hears
Thales the
Philofopher difcourhng
excellently, a-
bout
divers
excellent
moralities, and hee curies
thofe
plea
-
Cures
and delights
that
had taken
off
his
heart from
attend
-
ing.to
fuch
things
:
When
thou cornea upon thy
Fick
-bed
,
what
will comfort
thee
then?
it
cannot bee
thy
flyer
nor
gold;
therefore
oh
that
the Lord
would make
thee
now
for
the prefent
to fee thy
vanity
and folly before
it
be
too
late,
and thou curie thy
felf,
and
there
bee no
hopes
for
thee
But
it
is
this
point
(hews
the folly
and madnefs
of
thofe
that
feek
after
never
fuch
great things
in
the world with the
hazard
of their
fouls,
but then, what (hall
wee
fay
to thofe
that
will
hazard their
fouls
for
every trifle
?
Wee
fpoke
of
that in the
aggravation of the dreadfulnefs
of
the
lofs
of the
foul, onely
a
word
or two
more
of
inhere.
In
Amos
2.6.
God
complains
there, that
the
righteows were
fold
for flyer
,
Z
2
and