49.8 Thatworldly thingsare vrrprofitable. thingsaboutvs pleafant and comfortable, feting the Scrip- tures teach vs, that thofe muff fira bee conformable vnto Chrili in fufferings, who afterwards muff bee conformable vntahiinin glory, that the way toeternali happineffeis af- fliaedand flraite, andthat bymanifoldtribulations we muff enter into the kingdome ofheauén. Againe,thisflate of profperity of i.ireth vs notofthe fauourof men; yea rather it makethvs vtterlyvncertainwhoare ourfriends,andwho are not :Forthey- who flourifh in the world haue many friends in fhew, and few in truth, feeing they are friends to the'ir profperity, andnot to themfelues,they honour their places andnot their perfons ; it is the idoli of wealth which the route adoreth, and not theaffe that beareth it;it is thehonie ofprofit which thefe hungrie flies haunt, and not thepot that kecpeth it ; which being clean wafhed, and thehonie put into another veffell, they firaight leaue that,and asea- gerly follow this. It is not the man but mirth which isaffe- ó ed;:andfolongasthey banquet, feal,and fporttogether, they makegreat loue and friendfhip one to another ; but let the bondofplcafure bee oncebroken,bywant, or frckneffe, and theft friends areflraightway fcattered. Andyet aremen fo blinded with felfe-loue that being in profperity, they thinke they haue fomany friends as theyhaue flatterers; and howfoeuer their ownehearts tellthem, that they themfelues fawne upon many whom they doenot affe6ì,and bowvnto a number whom theydoe not inwardly honour, and keepe companywith diuers,not for anygreat loue to their perfons5. butbecaufe theyare fit infftuments of their pleafure andde- light ; yet fuchan opinion they haue oftheir owneworth, that they doe not once imagine that others paythem with . their ovine coine, but verily thinke that they are in good fadncffe,though themfelues ie$, and that all the honour and refpe&,: loue and friendfhip which other men (hew veto them, is Pimple and from the heart, though they know that themfelucsmake as fait ea (hew, and yet doe but counter- fait and diffemble. §3e11.6., And thus it appeareth that thefeworldly things doe not That wildly profit, in helping veto attaineUnto thofe things which are mots
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