Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

That all worldly things are kit were vanities. a 89 then by a readie yeelding.And muchmore doth he defire to 71ton tam pones breake open a paffage for his hopes by violence,then to find intrare pattrte, a free entrance : yea,and when outward oppofition ceafeth; geanrjre3rfjz the inward oppofition which he findeth at home in his own iurar.Lucanus, confcience in compafling of thefe earthly things,doth much raife their price and eftimation. Forwhen the confcience a.. Menusplacet greethwiththedefire, andapprouingofit ,giuethfreeliber- Fgru dfd tie offèeking and inioying, then the thing de(ìred is com- monly jetur, r peon butl ightlyfetby,andmeanelyefleemed: but when Pl,utusin it is vnlawfull either in it felfe,or in refpe6 of the meanes of Trim. comming by it; then the Law ofGod forbidding it,and the 3Qrcitacman- confciencecondemnin it, doefeta wonderfulled e vpon Cur,e.tcidit g ' g p gercagidtiter. the appetite, making it the more to affeól it, by how much senec.in Here. the more difficultie and hazard there is in attaining unto it; Oet. faring herein like the riuer, which when it bath a free cur- Kom.7.s. rent,runneth quietly in his owne chanell ; but finding flop Let'Floarreli. and oppofition it rageth and fwelleth, and breaking downs sus :,pfa pot e- his banks,ouerfloweth the whole Countrie. fiar-seminane- And thus honours are highly valued and efleemed, be- guitia laugui- eaufe they are not obtained without great labour and dan- drora lacir.o_ ger,as abroad by lying in the open fields,bywatching in the SEA $ib.3. night,and toiling in the day, by innumerable perils in open D7 cultiein fight,and fecret ambufhments,wounds, skarres, effufion of oVt uing tbem, blood,and continual) hazard oflife ; or elfe at home by the mai,th honours painefull and carefull feruice ofthe flate,which is often ioy- and riche fo ned with as mach hazard as labour. By which difficult much to be e- meanes when they are compaffed,they are anfwerably dice-11'd' med and valued,not according to their owne worth,but ac- cording to there deare prizes,atwhichthey were purchafed. Or ifthe ellimation ofthefe honours bee not aduanced by thefe outward difliculties,(as in truth this dangerous way of comming vnto honour, was neuer in any age leffe trauellcd) Arlan amnia yet at leafs they arc valued the more,in regard of the inward perpet:,gens bu_ oppofition which men find in their confciences b vfina vn- u rmunnt rpjeur lawfull meanes oattaine vntothem; as namely counter- Horat.Oda 3: feiting hypocrifie,machiauellian policies,treacherous falle- lib.r. hood,whereby they raife themfelues by fupplanting others, not caringby howwicked peps they clime,fo they may rife, V and

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