----------- aaz On the Excellency of the soul. to men. Many have this Turkifh difpofxtion, that are dogged and cruel to thofe of their own kinde, to thofe that have immortal fouls together with themfelves , though pittiful even to brute- beafls. This is the firft Life, Look upon all that have thefe fouls with an honourable re- fpeel , conficleiing they have that that is of fo much worth. tlïeo z, And then fecondly , If mans foul bee of fo much worth, how can wee look upon many people, but have our hearts railed in the meditation of the , dreadfulnefs of Gods Juftice upon men for fin ? thus, God hath made man an excellent creature, and given to every one a foul more -worth than the world ; but now when wee look upon fore people that have loft the beauty of their fouls , and now have no other ufe of their fouls , but it may bee all their dayes to bee imployed in fcraping of kennels, and raking in the du.ft -heaps in yourft reets, in attending upon horfes and fwine, and this is all that they have to do in their lives: oh what a low condition is man fallen into, that bath no other ufe of fuch a rational immortal fubflance that God hath given him , but meerly to make him ferviceable all his Jaye.,, to tend (wine, beafts, horfes, fcrape kennels, and fuch kinde of things as thefe are ! But you will fay, It is lawful for men to bee imployed in thefe, and poor people muff bee imployed in them. That is true, Iris lawful to bee employed in fuch things , but now , when men and women have fuch poor and mean itnploymenr, and have no higher thoughts but meerly to get bread by fuch imployirents , and their fouls buffed all their dayes about nothing elfe but thofe things, this flews the wo:ul fall of man , and manifefis a dreadful fruit of Gods juflice upon the children of men for their fin,Certainly,Max ,that ivur made in honour it become Of the beug that perifieth in this regard : And when wee fee the condition of men to bee fó,low fo bate andvile as they are fo beneath the ex- celleucy of a rational and immortal foul ; Oh ler us raife our thoughts to the meditation. Gods divine Juilice, it is a fear- _
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