o, the Excellency of the Sorel. d i s fearful fruit of the *lice of God upon man for fin; what, is this the creature that bath an immortal foul made by God mbre worth than ten thaufand worlds? that lies fcraping from morning to night in a kennel, and hath no other thoughts for anphigher excellency,butonely if it can get a lump of bread to live by, there is all they have to do, as if they were born for no other end ? Oh ! think then, is this the creature that bath fuch an excellent foul ?, furely fin bath made a great breach between God and man, and harp brought man -kinde into a very low and mean condition, and yet worfe are thole than thefe that have no other ufe of their fouls than to bee drudges to the Devil, and leaves unto their lulls, but of this wee ihall fpeak to more afterwards ; bur now I onely mention it, as to give a hint to the meditation Of Gods jufltce upon man for his fin. Thirdly, If the foul of a man bee of fo great an excel- lency , then certainly it mull needs bee an honourable work for to bee buffed about fouls, an honourable imploy- ment for God to fet one man or more to look to, and tend the fouls of others Oh ! what a difference is -there in the imployment between working in Wood and Iron all day long, or fcraping ¡tithe dull heaps (as before) and in an im- ployment of attending upon fouls! to bee of d by God as the inílrument of converting of there fouls, and bringing of them to their former excellency in which they were made, yea and to raife them to a higher excellency than ever they had in the firfl Creation! If wee prize mens employments by the fubjeS of their imployment, then certainly this is the glorious imployment that any Creature in the world can bee capable of what is the reafon you account a Gold - fmith a better trade than a Black-fmith ? but becaafe of the fubje& that the one works about rather than the o- ther one works upon Iron , and the other upon Silver and Gold; therefore one is a more honourable Trade than the other : Now, if the fubjea upon which they work makes one to bee more honourable than the other; what. Trade in the world can be fo honourable as the work of the Life 3.
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