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That the cittill vertues ofworIdling: are falf andcounterfeit.61 Cod. Which end ifwe aime not at, our vertues are of no va- lue :for (as Aniline faith) our vertues are difcerned from vi- ces,not by their offices and fesntlians,but by their fcope andleuei, Kan aLdibus fed and are efteerned not by their aitons, bat by their ends. For ifa f1itabus penlan. man Both any thing,wherein he femeth not to fnne, if hedoth it Aug a c ntra not for that endwhich heóught,heisconuincedof/ïnne; for true Julian. Pelag. vertues,in men ferne God,from whom they haue receisredthem. hb.4.ton,.9. Acid whatfoeuergood is done ofman, and is not done for that for C011o3a. which truewi fedome teacheth vs it ought to be done, although in the dutie it felfeit mayfeemegood, yet the end being not right, it ita fnne. And thereforefomegood things may be done,and they not doewelt ofuhom they are donerhc. Forit is vninO and fa- crilegious to make vice the end of vertue, and to enforce it barely toferne our voluptuous,couetous, & ambitious lugs. And elfewhere he faith,that vertue oughtnot to waitevpon Augufl.deCi. glorie, honour, and foueraigntie,which(rood men did de fire, and uit.Uei.lib.p. indououred to comparebygoodmeaner, but they ought to Waite eap.t z, vpon vertue : for thatisrnottruevertue ,tebichdoth nottend to that end,which is the chiefegood o f man,before which nothing is to be preferred. The which end if wee leaue,and aime at out owneglorieand praife, though our vertues and a&ions in themfelues be neuer fo excellenr,yet they are búthypocriti- call,andfhall(as our Sauiour faith ) -have no. other reward from God but the reward of hypocrites, the glorie of the Matth.ó.i.i.. ' world and praife oPmen. And thefeare the condition's which giuevnto all vertue ().SeU.I r. and duties the title ofgoodneffe : Now if we take a view of not world- thofe meere morali vertues and ciuill duties which haue lirtgrin their heretofore been in Heathen men,andare at this day in our ciuill venues ciuill honeil-worldlings:; wee thall finde none of thefe con- and workts èb- eruenoneof ditions obferued; for in them they were ioyned with the theformer con- worfhip ofldols and falfe gods, and in thefe with the falfe dawns. wotfhipofthe true God, whereby they -draw neeee veto God with their lips,when as their hearts are farce from him, and contenting themfehies with an outward feruite for fa- fhion and cu!iomes fake,and relling in the deed done, they neuer worfhip God aright,in fpirit and in truth. To fay no- thing of thefe who call God outofthcir hearts, and fet vp the