Chap. 30. An expofitiim upon the Boot( of Jos. Verf. t 5. 147 caufe the tooke fo much careto undoe her foule ; Secondly, be. caufe he tooke too little care in providing for his own. What pleating objc is are fought out for the eye ? what delightfull muficke for the eare ? what delicate difhes for the palate ? while t'. e foule feeds only upon (craps, while thofe things which eye bath not feene, which Bare hath not heard, are, not enquired af- ter for the (oule:and is this to e(teeme the foule our principal one! are not force men at more charge by the yore about one mem- ber ofthe body, yea about that which is but an excrement ofthe body, their hayre,then they are at about their foules ? and which is yet worfe, doe not fome even willingly let their foules farve here and dy for ever to fave charges ? is this toeileeme the foule our principal one ? Some are fo greedy after and pride them - felves fomuch inbodily beauty, that they will paint for it,rather then not appeare in it ; And all the fpirituall beauty which not a few delire for their foules is but to have them painted over with a little formal profeflion of religion; whereas indeed the foule is never fo ugly and unlovely in the eye ofGod , aswhen 'ris t`,us painted. The faireft colours of hypos ifie are more a- bominable before God, then the fouleft dirt of meereprophane res, Generally men would have every thing good about them, they would havegood ayre tobreath in,goodhoules to dwel in, good fervants to attend them, good horfes to ride on and while they would thus have all good about them , they (as one of the '0uor odo fir ur Ancients complained) are not at all folicitous to have that which r: ér boos tua is more then all, or their principal one, their foule, good within omnia non mir them. Men will not trufl their bodyes in the hand of an unskill- efe malem nifi full Phy(ician, nor will they venture their bodyes at Sea with in tQipfum Aug: un. experienced Pilot ; yet Come will t uft their foules with meere Scan ur5' de Emperickes in Divinity, with men uns&ilfullin the word of rigs- P reeoilnes,with Phyficians of no value,with Pilots of no experience in thecompalfe of Collie matters and concernments. Lally, if a Man have an efface in the world, he-will fettle and difpofe it the tirrefl way he can before he dyes; yea fame will difpofe of their bodíes, and direct how and where to be buryed before they dy ; while in the meane time their foules which have made all thefe fettlernents and difpolures remaine undifpofed of, and at the greate(l uncertainties imaginable, what (hall become of them, and whether they thall goe when they dy. And is this to reckon V 2. or
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