98 Mofes his Self-deniall. contented frame offpirit, this is tome. thing. owhen menare kept down by of fietions,andcrotfed in the world at e- veryhand, the world frowns on them, theyhavebut little of thecomforts of theworld, neither have they hopes of ever comming to have much, for theee men to talkofthe vanityof the world, and all the delights thereof, and that men fhouldnot be proud of that they have, thatthey fhould bee willing to part with all, for them to fay, that all the riches oftheworld what are they e they arebut droffe,dirt,and honors are bu t fhadòwes, and all thepleafures are but froth and vanity, this is nothing: but when they come to enjoy them thernfelves, or at leaf to fee probably that they may have them ere long, Í when the world comes in flatteringly tap::ra them, infinuating it felfe into thew,when they feel what the delights ofitare indeede, yet now tobeabove them, and to flight them, andnot to have theheart takenwith them, this is truely honourable. rap,in his Homily upon the fortie Í Martyrs, Non mag- iumeft ffe humilem in abjet!ione, magna pror fus rara virtus !Novi_ litan %onora_ ta.Ber.Hom. 4. super Mifjus eft.
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