Mofes his Selfe denial!. againft God, but for God. O that you had but fo much liberty to yourfpirit,, as to bethinke your fclves, wherefore Godpath railed youaboveothers: but reafin and religionare ufually drowned. in thefe in their fenfuall lulls:they think they have enough in their noncuts, and in theirpleafsres, to commend them,and make them happie ; butas for religion, that is for privatemen, who have no- thingelfe to comfort theinfclves in : E- venSeneca aheathen had this complaint concerning their religion in their times: Bolinefe,(faies he) piety, andfaith, are p ieta pr'z- privategood things : It fee,nes that even vitabons then thole that lived publikely in the Ìn ivesen. world in their honours and delights, they thought their pompeand glory to be fufficient, and that theyneeded not thehelpof verrue to comtnend them. It was likewife the complaint of Lacan; Exeat¡ulâ Let him goe from the Court, that in- qua; volet ere tends tobee pious verrue and great ?tau, fumm power cannot agree together. But isnot poteftienon opportunity of fervice for God, and coeuntia- his people, as great a good as any you can.lth can have is not the excellencyof any thing you have above others, in this efpecially, 75
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