on the Excellency of the Soul. to profper in this world, to have a healthful lufly body, and to have 'Inure and (lrength, and beauty ; But now, if hee fees that there bee any means for the good of their fouls, hee envies that , may the Devil have but their fouls, bee cares not what they have otherwayes. But wee come to the application of this firft point in my Text, of the excellency of mans foul. And the fire Life is this , Surely then wee ought to look upon every childe of mm with fome reverent refpeet and honour ; there is not the pooreft childe (as I told you the Taft day) that lyes crying at your doors for a cruft, but bath a foul in it more worth than heaven and earth. And the confideration of this fhould make us look upon the meaneft childe , fervant , the pooreft body, with an honourable eflee;n and refpe1 ; how ever the glory of their fouls bee darkned for the prefent , yet they have (till in them fuch fouls as are capable of a kinde of infinite good, more than all the other works that ever God made , except the An- gels ; do not look upon your fervants that are under you with fcorn and cont.m?t, do not ufe them doggedly , as if they were brute -beafts ; Remetnber,though you bee a Ma- tta, a Miftrefs, a Governour, you are a Governour of one that hath an immortal foul,more worth than all the world. A good man, faith the Scripture, is merciful to his beaft, and furely then a good man will bee merciful to one that hath an immortal foul , and it may bee an immortal foul better than his Governour; how many have niore refpelì to Dogs, to brute- beafls , than they have to fervants and children , and poor people,who have immortal fouls? I have read of the Turks , that though they bee noted for moil cruel people to men , as you heard of their cruelty to thofe in the. Gallies, yet they are very pittiful to brute- beafls and therefore they will give alms and flipends out of charity,to maintain brute -beafts withal' ; and there is a flory of a youth' that abufing a bird that had a long bill, was like to have been poned to death in the flreet , they did fo hate catchy. to thofe kinde of creatures , though they bee cruet E 3 to 221 Ufe:
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