Ofthe vanitieotpopularitie. 303 much more is it groffe and impious, to endeauour rather to- pleafe a multitude of wicked worldlings, then Godhim- Galathj,to. felfe ? and by winning theirfauours in that which is euill, to beare this teffimony founding in our cófciences, that we are not the feruantsof Iefus Chriff ? Secondly, it may ferue to- weanevs from immoderate fcckingofthefc vulgarfiuors, if we do but confider that it is amatterof great difficulty,& al- moll impoffìbilitie to pleafe the multitude, and not to dif plcafe tholewhich are wifeand vertuous ; for fuch difference 170 Igopiastre and contrariety there isbetweene their iudgements,difpofi_ erifapientibue tions,& affá1ions, that that which the one ef}eemech,thco- ditbltcere. Plu- chercontemneth which the one liketh the other loatheth tarch. deEdu- and that which they approucand magniñe, thefeimproue cand.liber. and iulllycondemne.If therforewecannot pleafeboth, who would notchufe to pleaferather thebetter, then thegreater part? who would much care lot their fauour and approbati on whom himfelfe neither fauoureth noralloweth?or great- ly delire to be likedofthofe,whomhe doch not like, nor vn- towhom hewould be like ; negle&ing in the meane time, theloueandlikingofthe wife and vertuous, whom he in- wardlyreuerenceth and admireth, becaufe they are caner; matched withmultitude? To this purpofeone faith, that it Le a/hame fora man toa`feft thepleatnt oftholewhom he would Pudendum eel placerovelle not imitate:foreither theyare not good;anelthen being euill, it gaps :olisirai- os nogreatmatterto bepraifedefthem ;. or tl.4y are good, and tari, &c. Au- thenweought toimitate them: brat thofethat aregood, aregood.guflin.lib.83. through their verrue, andvertue afi. teth not that whichH in qua cap.36 thepowerofothermen; and thereforehe that insitateth theggod,' Totn.4. dotbnot ambitiouflydefireanymanspraife; and hethatsmita teth the is vn.vorthie ofpraife. But asit is hard to pleafe the multitude,.and to pleafealto 4.Seci.8. thofewhich are wife and good: fo it is a matter of much. That iti.sim more difficultie,to haue their fauourand the loue.of God ;. poilible to pleafe becaufe the. vulgar multitude being infected with many b multitude ed. corruptions,affeéf thole chieflywho are like themfelues,and who are readie byeuill arts tocompaffe their fauour, and to lohnof a9.:. runne anywicked courfewhich may fit their phantafie, and pleafe their humour, for the obtaining of their loue. And therefore
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