on the Excellency of the Soul. 217 down his life,and dye an accurfed death, faith Jefus Chrift, rather than fuch p ecious fouls which my Father hath made capable of in;oyment of fo much good from him , and bringing glory to him rather than there' fhould perith I am content to come and dye , and fuller the wrath of my Father ; furety the price that was paid for fouls cloth hold forth the great worthof them : In the death of Chriil wee may read in large charaEters the worth of a foul. And my brethren , Even the body its felf, becaufe it is as The exc;d- the cafe of the foul, it is a very excellent thing. Of all the lency of the corporeal things that ever God hath made , the body of foul proved man is the moil excellent thing , therefore David in Pfal. from the body. t 3 9. fpeaking of his body, faith, verfe 14. I am fearfully and wonderfully made, marvellou are thy works, and that my foul knoweth right well. And then verf. i 5. My fatbjlance was not hid from thee , when 1 was made in fecret , and curi- oufly *roughs in the loweji part of the earth. When I was cu- riosity wrought, the word in the Hebrew fignifies Imbroy- From 1TI sired ; the body of man is Imbroydery ; and hence in Gen.a. it is faid there, that God formed man, and here in ampirzgere. Pfal. t 39. God did imbroyder him : And therefore Gallen that was an Atheiil a long time, when hee came to fee the Anatomy of a mans body, hee cryed out, Now I adore the God of Nature. Now the Lord hath wrought the body fo curioufty, becaufe it is the cafe of the foul, and that being fuch an excellent creature mutt have a fuitable cafe. As if you have a curious Watch , you will not put it into an ill favoured dirty leather cafe , but Will have a curious flyer cafe for it. Now becaufe the Lord did make a curi- ous peece, the foul of man, which was the mailer-peece of Gods creation next to the Angels therefore hee puts it into a very curious cafe ; this thews the excellency of thofe fpirics that are within us; howfoever they are now de- filed with fin,yet thus they were made at firtl.When we are fpeaking to men about their own excellency, one would think that then they fhould attend. I have fpoken of God and Chrills excellency , they B e may
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