on the Excellency of the Soul. 351 and the pride oflife. Take pleafures, and riches, and ho- nours, do but fee what the Scripture fpeaks of them all. Firft, For fenfual pleafures, you think they have a great deal of reality in them, why in the Scripture phrafe they are nothing 9 in t4mos 6. compare the former part of the chapter with verf. 13. verf r.That lye upon beds of ivory, and firetch themfelves upon their Couches, and eat the Lambs out of the flock, and the Calves out of the midi of the flail, that chaunt to the found of the Viol, and invent to themfeves in- flruments like David, that drink, Wine in bowls, and anoint themfelveswith the chief ointments, but they are not grieved for the a f illions of jofeph. Here is the pleafures that there men liv'd in, defcribed; but mark what hee faith, in verf. i3. Tee which rejoyce in a thing of nought : You do reioyce in that which is Rothtng ; all there pleafures, thefe brave merriments, when you get into a Tavern, there you drink, and vaunt, and have pleafure and mufick, and what a brave life is this ? I but, yee that rejoyce, faith the Holy Ghofl , in a thing of nought, it may bee a great matter in your.eyes, I but the truth is, it is nothing; that is for Pleafure. Secondly , For Riches fee the reftimony of the Holy Gitofl concerning them, in Prov. 2 3. 5. Wilt thou fct thi e eyes upon that which is not ? That which bath no being at all no, it is onely grace and godlinefs, that is that that hash a beeing, Prov. 8. xi. That I may caufe chof thatlove mee to inherit fubliance, Junius turns it, to inherit that which is; you think that the things of grace are but imaginations, and only worldly things are real e, no, the things of the world are but fancies, and the things of grace are real. Thirdly,And then the third is forHonours, AE1.2 5.2 3.And on the morrow when Agrippa was came and Bernice with great ,ueTÓCavJ .4. Pomp ; With much fancy, it was but all a fancy, and the cpxy -rao- as. truth is, the excellency that there things of the world have, it is an excellency that our fancy puts upon them; as a peece of gold that heretofore was but twenty shillings, it is raifed up ro two and twenty íhillings; I but though men may raife irup in their fancies to bee worth more, the gold xs
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