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on
the Excellency
of
the
Soul.
you do for mee
?
can you
fave
my
foul
in
the time o` di.
ftrefs
?
you
would draw
mee
to
filch
and
filch
courfes,
fuch
and
fuch
companions would draw
mee
to
fuch
and
filch
waies,
I
but
you
may
put them
offwith this,
Is this
the way
to
fave
my foul
?
if
it
bee, then I
will
do
it,
but if
it
will
not
do
that,
God forbid
that
I
fhould
meddle;
Oh therefore
remember, remember, that
the
fafhion
of
this
world
pafTeth
away,
i
Cor.
7.
30,
31.
The
Apofle
would
take
off
the
hearts of
men from
the things
of this world, and
bring
this
Argument,
faith hee , The
fafhion
of
this
world
it
meth
a-
way;
Therefore
ufe
the world,
as
not
abufi'ng
it.
That
that
you have in
your
Englith
book,
paffes
away,
it
is
(pro
e
yet)
and
I
finde two
very
learned
Writers tranflate it
by
a
word
that
lignifies
to
deceive;
The
f
afhion of
the
world
will
de-
ceive
you
at
laf,
and another
by
a
word
that
lignifies,
To
p
e
quite
crofs;
Thefe two
fgnifications it bath, it
Both de-
ceive,
or
it
goes
quite
crofs; the
outward
Thew
of
the
world,
oh
it
doth
deceive thoufand thoufands
of
fouls
to
their
eternal perdition, and it
goes
quite
crois.;
it
feems
to
promife thee thus and thus much,
but it will
go
quite
crois
in
the
conclufion, and
will bee thy
undoing
,
if
thou
dolt
not
take
heed;
and therefore
let
not
any thing in
the
world
bee
a
temptation
to
thee,
for
the
leaf
fin
that
poffibly
may
bee.
I
remember
Anglin
in
his book
about an
officious
lye,
hath this
paffage; faith
hee,
Am an
mull not tell
an
officious
lye
( that
is,
a
lye
without
an
intention to
do
any
body
hurt)
for the gaining
of the
world, nay, for
the
gaining
of
all the
fouls
in the
world; the
leaf
fin
is
a
greater
evil,
than
the
gain
of
all the world
is
a
good, becaufe that it
is
dangerous to
the
foul, upon
that
very ground; and
therefore
it
is
faid
of
Bail,
when
the
perfecutors terrified
him
with
the
lofs
of
all that hee had,
but
that
did
not
prevail ,
then
they made him fair
proffers, and
great advantages
that
hee
fhould
have,
I
but
Bafl
Taught
at them, and
bid
them
go
and
proffer
fuck
things to children
:
So
the gory of
the Mar-.
tyrs
tells
us
of fluflinius, that
godly man, that
having
been
a
means
to
demolifh
a
place
for
Jdol
worlhip,
The Idola-
ters