Oftheciuilear Whichworldly thingsbringto theironmers.737 periours fpiteat them becaufe theycome fo neere them,and interims enuie them becaufe theyare preferred before thë, and equals hate them, becaufe they are matched by them; whereas they ought (as felfeloue maketh them beleeue) to haue had great preheminence : which maligning fpirc,and fretting conic continue fo long, as they continue in their worldly happineffe; neither is there anyimams to be freed from them,but by lofing their .profperitie andbecomming miferable. Thus the highera manis aduanced inhonors and 41:ògtoriama preferments, the more commonly he ismaligned, and the tereopropiorin- greaterhis glorie is, the greater.alfo is hisenuie. Ycaand vidia. that which is worfiofall, chofe often who are honoured withoutward complement, as cap and knee only, haue ward grudgesborne them from the veryheart, and though they haue but falfe glorie,yet theyhaue for it trueenuie.Thc which is more bitterand fpitefull, if their ambition where- by they haue raifed themfeluesvp, haue plainly appeared in their afpiring. For (as,one faith) ambitionwhen it breaketh Bernard. adE. out into impudencie cloth lofe his eflicacie, and when this p`COP Aq"'r wicked affeEliongroffely appeareth,it taketh noeffe&i. And epif527* therefore ambition beingthe mother ofhypocrite, Both loue fecret corners, and asimpatient ofthe light,it lurketh in darkneffe : but when it lieth lowefi it looketh highefi.; like one inthebottome ofawell both dark and deepe, who isbetter inabledhereby to fee the highefi liars,with aquick andfirongtgbt,then theywho (landon the top ofafleeple. For theambitious manknoweth,that ifbee haue manywit- neffeswhoare able toglue tcliimonie ofhis pride, it is the nextway to hinder himofhis defiredhonours, teeing the moreglorie isoffe6led,the leffe it is apprehendedandobtai- ned, when the affectation isdifcerned : for thereis nothing more inglorious, then to afpire vnto glorie. An example whereofwehaue in the Apoliles lamesand John:For howfo- Luke s asq. tuerthe refs were foambitious, that there was agreat firife Macth240.144 amongfl themwhofhouldbe greate(l,yet becaufe the afpi- ringambitionof there two brethren did more groflybreak out intheir fuit made to our Sauiour,to fit on hisrighthand, .and his left in his kingdome; they hereby expoled them- Bbb felues
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