comfortable walking with God. 97 know what is laid againft them, in fuchand fuch company, liften to heare what their fervants talke concerning them, and ifa letter fall into their hands wherein they think them felves to bee mentioned, they will make no bones, againft the lawes of humanitie, to breake it open. Bufae-bodies in this kind never want wrathand woe. .4ntigonsu, as it is laid ofhim, was wife toabandon this vanitie. For whenhe heard two of his fui)je&s fpeaking ill of bim in the night nevre his Tent, willed them to goe further off, left the King fhouldbeam them. 6. Covetoufiaeffe, the Cutthroat of Grace, and canker of the foule, like aneating infatiable Woolfe, will either f}ill feed upon gaine, or clfè gnawupon the heart with fret- ting : and therefore the very Joffe of a penny, fometimes theomiffionof a good bargaine, the mifcarriage of forme do- mefticall trifle, the death of a bead, &c. will prefentlyput a covetous man into choler: for his eies are fo earthly, that they looke onely upon the feeondary , not upon the fuprerne caufe. 7. A conceit ofbeing contemned by others in word, deed, countenance. Manyare foweake this way, that if they fpie but any fecret fmiling, twowhifpering together in the com- pany, or any talking, efpecially with their eies now and then call towards them; they prefently thinke, that themfelves certainely are the aime, and obje& of their fcornefull ob- feruation; and fo grow fowre, out of tune, and unfit for company all the while after. Such as thefe are extremely troubled , and take on to themfelves, if they have not the chiefeplace, andupper handat meetings, refile& and falu- ration from thofè that they faluce,exa&obfervance,and obei- fance from their inferiours,tbe wall from ill commers,if they be not begun unto in matters of complement and fèrvices of humanitie, &c. A riddance and reftraint of thefe and the like maladies of the mind , will bea notable meanes tb prevent arid hinder the affaults and furprizall ofthis furious and foule fiend. 2. But if atany time thou feele this Viper to receive heare H in
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