The · . • 3S:5 oneobAinate, that hee will .go on; andno.thing thall t-urne .· hlm, when heehearkens tO fuch as will footh himvph1any ~ thing, care not what they fpake fo they may pleafe; and fo.. · fuffers himfelfe rather to bedecdued and feduced .by ·them, . then admonifhed and led in the rightwayby God. . · . And thislheweth.a very ignorant and foolilh mindc, that : one is not acquaintedwith his owneerlatc, nor dot_h eaA0- .. ouerhis accounts.that hang betwixt God and himfelfe. For, , nobankrupc,that kooweth well that he GWeth much more · thenhe is worth, will eafily @e perfwadedofthe fuffidencie- ; ofhis e!lat~. For,iffome companion as beggarly as himfelf, , , would come and tell him, You are a_vcry rich man,you haue great \1\ealch, you are able to buy lands, and purchafe fa ire : lordfhipsJ and fuchother idle talke; would he be perfwaded · byhim?Would he fatisfie himfdfe whh this,aod brag.ofhis , wealth,-and take himfclfefor fome great perfonage? It were · impoffible. He would count hitn for amad man that would : fay thus: anci himfelfe would been~uera whit the prouder– for all thefe rich difcourfcs. So ifa man would often rifle his -, owneconfcience,.goouer his affec1iens,and fee how theybe , difordcred, confider his ·a&ions, how farre they diff~r front ~ Coqs law,and thusvfc to fee into.himfelf, and make ·acount :. cfhis debc·s and arrereages wher~in hee bath call himfelfe :-: then let a thoufand f1nooth~tongu'd dHfetublers pcrfwade him, You haue liued.hondHy J you haue behaued yourfdfe · well, and like aC~rHHan, you are av-ery vertuo.us man; hee would neuer receiue their falfe tdlimony: bur.being-guiltie·., in his owne confcience;he would eafily pafle fentence vpon : himfelf,and readi!y difcerne their grofle fhttery.&it now be- . caufe men be fo/careldfe that theywil not call ouer their-ac– counts themfelues, and make a right reckoning, that they .. might kn ~) w their owne eflate, theref'"'re.others come and : bring in falfe reckonings, an~make falfe accotmts: and fo- · they bee deceiued and thinke themfeJues in a very good- ·; plight, when (in truth) they are mofi wretched and mifera- '-· bk.Thcrf':-'re let~uery man take·heed ofthae praife that puf– fcth vp and·nardeneth,and fee tliat none perfwade vs that we ,.. be bettcr.lor our fmnes leife or fewer1:th~n they be.And thus ·- ... · mucii ,
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