on the Excellency of the Soul. 231 ring that their bodies may bee fine, and that they may bee brave ;and as they look at their children, fo they look at themfelves they love their bodies to the uttermoll , to make provifion for the fleill, but no further. What a deal . of do would there bee, if when any of your children goes abroad, or husband, or wife, If you lhould hear that they have gotten a fall and broke their legs or arms ? but now when you go abroad , and fall into fin , and get a wound to your fouls, as every fin it gives a deadly wound, yea fuch a wound as onely the blood of Jefus Chrift is able to cure it; and there is nothing made of all this, as if wee were no- thing but lumps of flefh : Oh have a care of your fouis, and labour to love them , and make them to bee your Dar-. ling ; you had need have a care of them, for as they are precious, fo they are tender; as it is with Watches and cu- rious Inf'cruments, thofe that are moll curious are the ea- fief} hurt, the very air will put them out of temper; and fo the fouls of men, becaufe they are things fo excellent, they are things of a very curious nature,and a little thing wil hurt them. M a little thing will hurt the eye, for that is a more excellent member than your finger or leg ; fo the foul is a more excellent part , and therefore it is that that is mott in danger to bee hurt and mifchiefed , yea and to perifh , and if your foul perifhes, your body will follow after, what Will become of that if your foul bee loft and periíh? but the onely way to love your bodies ;well, and aright, it is to love your fouls. C7i g 2 The
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