Ofthevanitie ofmorldlno6ilitiea 341 vnto anygreatgood,ticatit is throughmans corruption the nobility ismach caule of much hurt, let vsnot ouerualue it, or toomuch let tobepreferred our heartsvpon it ; but learning to defpife and contemneit, befrethat as being offinalworth,let vs labour to aduance our felues to nybich to world- fpirituall and heauenly nobility ; bothbecaufe it is moll ex- cellent andprofitable,and altonot like the other peculiar,to Tome few, but common to all, who letting their hearts and affec` ionsvpon it,doewithall their deliiresand indeauours feeke and fue for it.Theexcellencie ofthis fpirituall and hea- uenly nobility,appeareth both in their freedome that haue it, and alto in theiraduancement. They are freed from the Rom.6.rz. ílauifh tyrannie ofSatan,and from the bate feruitude offin : to thatas the Apofile faith, it (hall no longer reign in their Solaapudne- martallbodies; the which is to he efieemed the chiefefi art um libertaefi p pce- oftruenobilitie,when as holding nothing from thefebafe caria.somma lords,they owe all their fealtie, allegiance,andferuice to the apadDeom lord ofall,and fupreameking ofheauenand earth. Whereas biliras eß,cla_ contrariwife,they who are mofi noble in their worldly e- t Heieronu fiate,arenotwithflandingalltheir honours and high titles, adCelanc.de ofamoil abieél andbate condition,as long as they remaine inflicut.ma- in theflauerie and bondageoffin andSatan; for what more trisfam.com.t viic feruitudecanbe imagined, then to be the feruantoffin, ferm cot and to remaine Satans drudges, ready to doe his will? A- &ßai:io[èt r gaine,thisfpirituall and true nobility freethvs fromtheo-uir,mihiliberefil uerruling power ofour corrupt affections, and from the tu- multuous tyrannie of our violent pallions, bringing them 1e +itagee.z_ vnder therulcof the lawof God, and in fubiedfion toholyfat,Gregor: reafon. The which priuiledge worldly nobility wanteth; Nazanzjn and confequentlybringeth with it fmall grace or profit for nobil. malè what auaileth it a man to bee outwardly glorious in the moral. world,and inwardlybafe in himfelfe?to haue othermen to Z77,',14;13;1" . capandcrouch to him, whenashe ferueth more vitious and uiniuos ind ec bate mailers then the worn that ferne him ? andwhilefio-fpedmenefl,vt ehers fioupe vntohim,and doe himhonour; hee difgraceth roMbos rm e himfelfe by fiouping andyeelding to his vile affebiions and Nazün.de violent paffions?Finally, this true and chriflian nobilitie, ncolog. doth caufe vs to (land boldly in the prefenceofour great Orar.z. king,in affuranceofhisloue,and to offer vnco himour vil-Roms.x r. 3 ling
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