A RenownedandPerpetuatedNone to be denied. 263 needs be more tormented, both to remember that you were -reeking the fame of the world, inflead of the eternal glory, and to confider what a miferable wretch it is that men are praifing and magnifying on earth. Ah then you will think with your felves [Little do the poor inhabitants of the earth knowwhat Iam fsiffering while they are extolling me. Is the ap- plaufe of mortals Mitable toa poor tormented foul Alas that at one and the fame time, men Pohl be extolling me, and Devfls tormenting me flow little eafe do all their acclamations aford this poor difirefired 1411] How honourable are the names of Alexander the Great, and Cafar, and Ariftotle here on earth ! but alas what caufe have we to fear that they are lament- ing their mifery, while we are fpeaking of their glory ! 5. And the fin is much the greater, becaufe it is not a mil- chofen means, but a miftaken end, that your fouls have fattened on : For it feems your very hearts are fet upon your Honours, and deeply anddefperately fee upon them, when you dare con- trive the continuation of them when you are dead. Were it not a matter exceeding dear to you, undoubtedly you durft not lay fuch a defign for it. 6. And confider whether there be not a Love of the deadly fin of Pride, and a final impenitency implyed in this ambition ofa furviving name. For you lay a defign that is fiippofed to be executed after death. And as if you defined an eternity of wickednefs, becaufe your Pride it felf can live nowhere but with your felf, youwould have it leave thofe tokens behind it, bywhich the world may know that you are Proud ; and the et/efts of it you would have perpetuated on earth ? And had not the worldenoughof your Pride whileyou were alive ? andhadnotyou enough of it ? Is this your Repentance , that youwould leave the Monuments of your Pride unto Pofteri- ty, as if you were affraid there would be no furviving witnefs againft you to condemn you ? This is a certain tran- fcendency of fin ! The common wicked ones wouldfain die the death of the Righteous, and with their laft end were like to his But thefe men would have their Pride to live for ever ; and when they themfelves are in another world, they would have the demonftrations of their iniquity furvive them. 7. And
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