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what is required veto honours that they PM) óegosd, &c. 2 03 goodnes, when the wind of pride and vaineglory is quite expelled. Lafily,that our honours and good name maybevntovs pat),Iq. trudy good and lawfull,we mu(i, when we haue them, im- ir, muff employ ploy them to good vfes,and make them (crue not onely for our honours the aduancement of Gods glory, of which I haue already varogood fpoken, but alto to the good and faluation, both of our neighbours and our felues; as namely,wee ought to vfe all theloue, authoritie and credit which we haue with them, as cords to pull them backe in the headlong courfeofuinne, and as allurements to jonce them to follow our example, in thole verrues and good: parts, for which we are fo commen- dable. And for our felues, when wee confider that God by furnifhingvs with his gifts and graces, bath made vs not onely efieemable in his ownc fight, but alto honourable a- mong men; let thisrich reward make vs to yeeld veto God all thankfulneffe . and obedience : let this our credit and re- putation make vs careful) in auoidingall finne,whereby our honour willbe blemifbed and impeached ; and let this gar- land of earthly honour ferùe toincourage vs, more cheare- fully to run on in ourChrifiian race, that fo alto we may ob- tain thatpreoiousand heaucnlie crown ofeuerlafling glory. And thus haue I fit downe the cautions which arc requi- 4,Sell,15. redvnto lawfull honours, which being obferued, they are Thatlamfutt good and warrantable; and therefore to be moderatelie de- honours areto fired ifwce haue them not, and duly efieemed ifwec haue be de¡>ed for them.Neither is it to be effect-bed true humility,but fiupidi- God, glory. tie and fenflefneffe,not to be affe&ed with the Tweet odour ofa good name. And howfoeuer ambition,vainegtorie,and worldly and carnali honours, are to bee contemned of all Chrifiians,as we fhallaftcrwards fhew,yct thefe lawfull ho- nours,fame and reputation, wherein the former conditions are obferued,both in compaflìng and vfing them, may, yea ought to be defined and efleemed, Peeing they tend to Gods glory,thegoodofourbrethren, and the furthering of-our owne faluation. For when as we Thine glorioufly in the eies ofinen,in the light ofa godly life, then is our heauenly Fa- thergiorificd,asour Sauiour tellethvs; both becaufehce is Mát..le. the