comfortable walking with God. gluttonous daire of grafpingoffices and honours, forces him- felfe viis &modis, into force high place, as his onely Paradife, and when he is gotten up, dances full merily ingolden fet- ters upon his flippery Handing : but couldeit thou fee into his iníde,thou fhouldefl behold his heart miferably fretting and vexing it felfe ; ragingwithmany paffionateditlempers, for the indignation of good men; contempt of inferiours; thwartingofcompetitors;envie of compeeres ; underminings ofcounterfa ionifts; jealoufies of Princes, eke. Howmany great mens hearts have buril: with the blafling frownes of a Kings forehead ? Nay, and which is a Bedlam miferie upon . the ambitious man ; bee is many times more grieved for an affront of force grand oppofito ;. becaufe hee cannot have his will of this or thatman, that rands in his way; or for the negleef of force expe&ced complemental) refpeÓt andob- fervance, thenpleafed withall the other bravery and jollitie ofhis high roome. This is cleare inHaman, though lice was encompaffed andcrowned withmuch undeferved and extra- ordinary precedencie and pompe; yet this one little thing, to wit, becaufe Mordecai would not bow theknee, and doe reverenceuntohimat theKings gate, didutterly marre and diflweeten all the other excellencies and extraordinarineffe oftheKings favour: See Hefter, Chap.5. Verfe i o, t i, s 2, a 3. And Hannan told his friends and :rift of the glory of has riches,&c. Ent allthis, faith bee, doth nothing availe mee, ae long a Ifee CA'tordecai the 'ernfittingat the Kingsgate.' 3. The third is an eternal' ding, which to, a, waking and working confcience arifeth out of .a ferious confideration, and fenfe ofGods caufefuli , j utl and holy indignation re- vealed in his Booke againft impenitents in fuck "chides, Whereupon it is no marvaile, though many times their hearts hating to bee reformed, and hearing their feverall doomes denounced againfl them from Gods owne mouth, in that Word,bywhich they {hall nee jeidgedat the ladDay, bee full forely Imitten with inward bitter gripings,and fecret guiltieflings thevery helli(l; iiafhings and foretaftes of that Bever-dyingworme, which hereafterwithout timely repeu- taACt, 173 0
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