Ofthe vanitieofu+orldlyglorie. 297 fully forward in vertuous courfes, fo long as the windeof vaineglory helpeth themforward,tland fill and donothing worth note, when as they are not praifed andcommended; and are vtterly difcouraged and turne backe againe, when theyare difpraifedforwelldoing; being readie to embrace any wicked courfe which promifeth vino them glorie and reputation : or like vnto Organepipes, which are dumbe when they want wind,but being blowedwith the bellowes, and well played vpon,yeeld melodious harmonic fo thefe menwanting the wind ofvaine glorie glue nogood found, butbeing blowed and cuen filledwith the breath ofmens praifes, they are readie to yeeld amuficaiconcentof,ar lcaf+, a feeming vertue,in their wordsand adlions:yeafo immode- rately doe worldlings dine vpon this idbll, that when they hauenothing in themfelues ofany worth, which they may offerunto it as a facrifice to make it propitious vnto them; and that they may eternize this vaine fame and glorie vnto pofleritie; they build (latelyhoufes,andcall them after their ownenames; or ere&(as Abfolen did his pillar) monuments and fumptuoustombes and fepulchres,not fomuch tokeepe in their rotten bodies, as to preferue their famerotting and peri(hing. But this isa figne ofa bafe nature, folhamefiilly. to begglorie,the wagesofvertuc, frompo (leritie,after they are dead, which they neuer earned for any vertuous a6lions, which they did when they werealiue; to catch at the fha_ dow ofvertue,and negle6 the bodie,which when they haue got they areneuerthe richer;for whowouldnot efieeme that as light as nothing, which is the rewardofnothing, and im- pudently extortedwithout defers? Butler vs know that notonly there bale fhifts, but even §.Sea.3. this vaineglorie alto is to be contemned and reieeled ofall Tbet contempt true Chrifians: firft, becaufe it isforbiddenand condemned ofwine :torte inthe Scriptures, bosh in refpeël ofourdefires and adlions: "inioyned vs in in the former re and , the A oftleexhortethvs , not:tobed the Serh:pto,c,. romofvain lorie,pouo1 ngoneanother, andenuyint oneao- "at .s.zF, ther: and for the other, heewilleth vs, that noth:v, bee done Philip23 throughcontention or varneglorie, /ut that inmeekeneffeofmind entry man acmeotherbetter ¡henhimfrlfe. And our Sauiour Chrifl: .
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