fi `488 I= Cornelius à Lapide in his Corn-. ment upon Num.ix.ii Cura eifern Religiofus, fperabara be- véde (alute anima mea; Cardinalis failus,exti- mui; Ponti- fex creatur, pané defero. A gracious [pint, Authour of the Story is a jefuite, Cor- nelius à Lapide ; one highly efteemed amongft the Pap:fis, atx1 therefore the truth ofit is to he the lefre fufpet}ed : the Story is this ; He (ayes, that this Pope Piro Quintus was wont to lay of himfeif, that when 'MISfitfl in religious oders (that is , without any furtherEc- clefafticall dignity) I bad a very good hope ofthefslvation o fmy föttle ; but being made a Cardinall, Ibegan tobemuchafraid; but nowbeing Pope,1doeeven defpaire. So fayes Cornelius , did Clement the eight, that followed after him , thinkof i im- felt, Thus by this example we fee what a dangerous thing it i3, to bL rai {ed in outward honour, and yet frill the fpsrit to continuebafe and vile. 7 Above all , you who arehonour- able and great in the world , you had need labour to be gracious, becaufe fin is more unfutable to your condition, then to others. It was thecomplaint caf' the Church, Lam. 4.5. that thofe who who were brought up in Scarlet, did embrace the dung : How ,unfutable was this, to hive the higheft places,and the loweft fpirits ? Lernard writing to anoble
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