238 Strength and Valour to he denied. of filth, should yet beproud, that's carried about bya living foul, and by it kept a little while from falling down as a fenfe- lefs clod, and turning into a flunking corpfe I They are fhort- lighted, and `fhort-witted as well as gracelefs, that cannot look fo far before them or within them, as to fee that which may take them down from being proud of any comelinefs of the flefh. Onewould think this fhonld be fo eafie a part of fedf-denial as any gracelefs one might reach, by a little .ufe of the Reafon that is left them. CHAP. XLV. Strength andValour to be-denied. 5. ANother piece of Vain-glory to be Denied , is in The Reputation of firength and valour. The witlefs :part of men, efpecially in their procacious humours, do ufe to be car- ried awaywith this, as witlefs womenwith the former. Hence commonly are their matches of Running and Wreftling, and many exercifes of aaivity and ftrength : yea and hence com- monly are their duels and murders : It feems fuch a dithonou- rable thing to them, tobe thought a Coward, or unable to de- fend themfelves, and to be crow'd over by their enemy, that theywill yenture body and foul upon it rather then they will put up fuch indignities, or lie under the difhonour of be- ing Cowards. Yea, and (would one think it) force Jefuits are fuch Carnal Doctors that they teach men, that if they be challenged, and their honour lie upon it, they may meet the challenger there in a defenfive poflure, and fight withhim to defend their honour : yea and inmany other cafes, they may kill another for their Honour, Peeing their honour is more to them their lives. 0miferable Teachers, and miferable fouls that do obey them I Chrift hath taught you another leffon, even to defpife the Pam, Heb. i 2.2, 3. and to humble your (elves, and intimateth that fuch cannot be believers, which receive honour of one another, andleek not the honour that corneth from
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