z -z 26o A Renownedand Perpetuated Name to be denied. Above all others, thefe forts of perfons following are in danger ofthis-odious Pride, in defiring for themfelves an ex- tended and surviving Name. I. Prince./ and Soldiers that have the management of the great affairs of the world ; Fain would they be Renowned to Pofierity: And herce are their afpi- ring ambitious defigns. For this are their Wars and Con- onefis that theymay befamous when they are dead as well as while they live : And thus they make their Noble Conquefts to be but Murders of the vileft fort, and worfe then any Cut- throats and Robbers by the high way, while they intend them but for thernfelves and their own vair-glory ; and better migh they leek honour by whoredom, drunkennefs, or theft which are far fmaller fins : Whereas if their wars had been un- dertaken for God, and managed according to his Will, they had made them truly honourable and renowned, And from this odious Pride it is , that ribra/omf Pillars mull be ,erecied, and Monuments muff be built to perpetuate their names, and tell the world what need they have of means to keep alive their memories, and how deftitute they are of nobler means,when Marbles and Monuments mull be the great preferversoftheir fame. Yea it were well if this Pride and fe/fiihneff did r o: corrupt the nobleft of their works, and turn them into deadly fins : if they did not build their Hofpitals, Colledges or Churches, and endow them with revenues to perpetuate their own Names, rather then to do good. Though the works themfelves are fo good and fo rare, that I would not call any difhonour upon them , feeing all that can be laid is too little to provoke-men to do the like :-yet am bound in duty to tell them, that if Self fhould be the End in- {lead of God, and Pride the caufe inftead of charity, Hell would be the Reward inftead of Heaven : fo great a matter it is to have an honeft heart and right Intentions in the moft excellent and noble works. In fo much that a poor man that hath an heart to build a Colledge or an Hofpital, if he had but Means, fhall be Rewardedby God as ifhe bad done it, ifGod were the End, andCharity the Principle ; when a rich man that loth thework it Pelf, Mall have but a poor and temporary reward, iffelfbe the.End and ?ride the Principle. 2. Another ION
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