:· excellency that is chiefly to bee fought by us, e– ven thus to adorne thy fouie·. And there is good reafon for it: for ifthou Outward ex· cellencies not to be fought after. confider what thy body is, and what thy fpirit is, thou lbalt fee, that all thefe things thatdoe adorne the outward man, are not the excellen· cies tobee fought after. Indeed, th~reare divers j kindes of thofe excellencies ; they are of three Outwardc&· I forts. Firtl, excellency ofclothn,and building,anel ccllency of.J• ,fuch gaudy things, which children and vaine t<~rts• men and women are fenlible of. Secondly, great ~lu, and hono11rs, and ·great rewards, which a higher fort of men are capable of. Thirdly, the excellency oflearning, andkno,/edge, and skill in .1rts and [ciences; and this alfo is but an qutward excellencie : for though it be feated in the (pi– rit, yet it enables onely to outward things. , Thefe are not the excellencies that thou fhoul– defl: feeke for: but it is an excellency of the fpi– rit thou art to regard : Iooke to thy fpirkwhat that is; for as the fpirit is, fuch is the man: Per- . feEiiB mentis eft perfe8io hominif, this is the proper excellency:thebody is but(as it were) the fheath for the foule ; a man is fa id to bee ·more excel– lent, .as his foule is excellent : the exceliencie tbereofis a mans proper excellency, and there– fore every one lbould.Iabor to excell in thif pro– per excc''encie. Other excellencie is but an out– ward excellencie, this is that which is intrinfe– call r~ c:. man; the other are but adventitious front without , not proper, they a!e not that which makes the difference, as this doth. The righteouJ \ B ~ - iJ
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