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2 84 That all :Ï orldl things are bat were vanities. Meth and difliketh : fo voluptuous men being di(lempered with the raging heave of their burning pallions, doe often- times affeétand deure,fitch carnall plc afures,and odious de- lights, as afterwards they loathe and abhorre, when as the hot fit of their raging pallions being ouerpaft,theyare fome- what recouered to their health,and haue a freer vfe of their iudgetnent and reafon. And therefore Peeing all there things which the world efleemeth chiefely good,haue theirworth and excellencie not from themfelues, but fromour opinion andconceit ; let vs no longer adore there idols which are of our owne making, nor ßi11 fuffering our feloesto bee be- witched with our owne phantafies; let vs any more ferue and reuerence there things which are but of an indifferent nature,and meane qualitie;becaufewe hauemagnifiedthem in our conceits, and fcatedthem in the highelt place ofour hearts, which in refpeil oftheir fmall worth, fcarce deferue any roome at all, or to Rand (fo much as) behind the doore, vnleife it were to be at vertues call, to performe fuch offices . and good duties asfheeappointech. But let vs !cattle atlaß to let our hearts and affc&tions vpon.fpirituall and heauenly things, which are in their owne nature truelyand fubßan- tially good, and not like the other; therefore excellent, be- caufe we affea and thinke them fo ; but therefore to bee e- !teemed and much affe&ed,becaufe in truth they are ofgrtat worth and excellencie. §.Set .5. Thirdly, the vanitic of thefe worldly things heerebyap. Thatvvortd!y peareth,in that they are not commended vnto vs fo much by things are mere their owne worth and excellencie, as by the competition of commended vn- others who affeel and fecke them as well as wee : for had to v, by eager we no corrivals in our loueto whet our affe6lion, and (har- eompetition tbë byauy¡etfe- pen our appetite,it would foone faint and langui(htowards e c llencie, thefe earthly things,there being inthemfelues no all good which might ferneas fuel' tonouri(h and preferue it. But when as we fee others admire and lone them, we be- gin ro imagine that there is fomewhat in them worth our liking and defiring, grounding this conceit not vpon our owneknowledge and exeperience, butvpon the judgement and praEtife ofthofc who hauc gone before vs, or that hue with