Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

1)4 What is required togoodandlalbfullhonours. ing good and vertuous, and their teflimonie alto and appro- bation will bring veto thofe that haue it moflioy and com. fort, becaufe it is fubilantiall and well grounded. As for the tetlimonie ofthe wicked and vngodly, it is not tobe defied if we have it nor, nor to be valued and efieened if we haue Laudari à malè it. So Auguiline faith, / defire not to be praifed of euilllacers, 1 viuent,b,a noto, abhorre and detefi it,it is rather a griefe then apleafure Vasto me; abborreo dol ncte. but if1 fhouldfay that 1defirenot to epraifedofthofe that hue ali- bi elf, non vo. we/l, ! fieuld but diffemble r if 1fbould fay 1 do defire it, l feare left lopeati, &e. I f ould be moregreedie ofvanitie then of foltditie: what there - Aug.Hom,z 5, fore/box/4 /fay ? I neither fully will it, nor fuly nillit : 1 doe not tom.to> fully will it, leg 1 fhould be endangered by humanepratfes;neither do 1 fully nill it,leii they fiould be vngratefalito who Ipreach.As therefore it is the nature ofall men to defire praife,fo it is the propertie ofthofe who are truly wife and vertuous, to delire this praife of chofe that are praife- worthie; becaufe wicked worldlings are readie to applaud and commend men when they doe euill, and kecpe them company in their vngodly courfes :in refpeel whereofa man hath iutl caufe to fufpea himfelfe, and to examine his aFtions, when impious men intifihenes commendthem. So the Heathen man hearing that hee was orod Laertinm. praifed by fuch as he reputed euill, was iealous ofhimfelfe; de"' Phil. Haue I (laid he) done any euill at vnawares, that Inch coin - lib.ó,cap.r. Y mend me? And the Lacedemonian when as his King was by Plutarch.itt lewd perlonshighly commended,was readie to aske;Can a- Apothegm. ny (faith he) be hippie, and not be bitter and diffaflefull to wicked men? yea our Sauiour Chrifl himfelfe denounceth Luk.6.26. a woe againfi thofe of whom all men fpeake well, becaufe euill men wil not long be in loue and liking with the adtions of the good: For as the wicked man is an abomination to the iuf, fo he that is vpr ght in his way, is an abomination to the wicked: Pro.2.9.z7 and our Sauiour bath told vs, that the ditiple is not above his mailer, nor the [truant abone his Lord, &c. If therefore they Mát.ro.z zg, hauecalledthe mafterofehehoaft7eel- zebub, how much more Seta.? be rhButisi then vnlawfiilltobepraifed ofworldlings? and latin /nu to def;e are their commendations alwaies to be contemned and re- pea;feofaieIed ie6led ?No affutedly, their good word rather then their o- men_ uill