ár,éG7t-i On the Exeellemty of the Soul. afcend up in their underilanding , and to knòw all the mo- tions of the heavens , and can tell you to a minute of an hour what kinde of motions, there will bee , as appears plainly by etlipfes : The arts of Navigation, that they can compafs the world up and down that way : If it were but in thefe fenfible things that wee fee fo much arc in , as in thefe mighty buildings , which fhows that a man out of a deal of rubbish can ralle and erea fuch a building as this is, this fhows the excellency of mans foul; and if there bee fo much excellency in it naturally, that it can do fuch things, then what can it bee raifed unto, and inabled unto by a divine power ? VA hat can it do when it is inlarged , The fouls by grace, and made partaker of the Divine nature ? excellency dc- And further, The excellency of, the font appears in the im- nnon!tratcd mortality of it : Fear not them that can kill the body, and can -rem its im do no more. Certainly if the foul were mortal, as the body n,ottality. is, then that man that kills the body , kills the foul too, Lake 1:.4,5 and therefore wee may fear a man nor onely becaufe bee can kill the body , but becaufe bee can kill the foul ; but faith Chrifl , Fear not them that can hill the body, and can do no more. The foul is as an Eagle,when a man dyes,that gets out of the Cage,and fo it Oyes away;faith Srephen,when bee .6(7-.7. 59. was to dye,Lord 3ejue receive my fpwit : Why,tf fo bee that his fpirithad dyed with his body,he need not have faid,Lord Ph11.1.7.3, Jeftst receive my fpirit.And fo St.Paul,I am in a fireight,and know not what to do, whether to live or dye , but hee thought it was better for him to bee difiolved , it was not to bee deftroyed , it is but a difTolution , hee rather defired a dif- folution, that hee might bee with Chrifl , which is bell of all : Certainly,it was this that made the flreight, If I dye, I (hall bee with Chrifl immediately , and if I live , I shall injoy force communion with him , and likewife do a great deal of fervice for him : If Paul had thought that his foul and body fhould have dyed both together , certainly bee would have defired to have lived , rather than to dye ; for when bee did live, his foul did injoy communion with Jefus Chrifi , and bee did do abundance of fervice for him
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