Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the vanitie of u+orldly glorie. 297 fully forward in vertuous courfes, fo long as the winde of vaine glory helpeth them forward,tland fill and do nothing worth note, when as they are not praifed and commended; and are vtterly difcouraged and turne backe againe, when they are difpraifedforwelldoing; being readie to embrace any wicked courfe which promifeth vino them glorie and reputation : or like vnto Organe pipes, which are dumbe when they want wind,but being blowed with the bellowes, and well played vpon,yeeld melodious harmonic fo thefe men wanting the wind of vaine glorie glue no good found, but being blowed and cuen filled with the breath of mens praifes, they are readie to yeeld amuficai concentof,ar lcaf+, a feeming vertue,in their wordsand adlions:yea fo immode- rately doe worldlings dine vpon this idbll, that when they haue nothing in themfelues ofany worth, which they may offer unto it as a facrifice to make it propitious vnto them; and that they may eternize this vaine fame and glorie vnto pofleritie; they build (latelyhoufes,and call them after their owne names; or ere& (as Abfolen did his pillar) monuments and fumptuous tombes and fepulchres,not fomuch to keepe in their rotten bodies, as to preferue their fame rotting and peri(hing. But this isa figne of a bafe nature, folhamefiilly. to beg glorie,the wages ofvertuc, from po (leritie,after they are dead, which they neuer earned for any vertuous a6lions, which they did when they were aliue; to catch at the fha_ dow ofvertue,and negle6 the bodie,which when they haue got they are neuerthe richer;for who would not efieeme that as light as nothing, which is the reward ofnothing, and im- pudently extorted without defers? Butler vs know that not only there bale fhifts, but even §.Sea.3. this vaine glorie alto is to be contemned and reieeled of all Tbet contempt true Chrifians: firft, becaufe it is forbidden and condemned ofwine :torte inthe Scriptures, bosh in refpeël ofourdefires and adlions: "inioyned vs in in the former re and , the A oftleexhortethvs , not :tobed the Serh:pto,c, . romofvain lorie,pouo1 ng one another, and enuyint one ao- "at .s.zF, ther: and for the other, hee willeth vs, that noth:v, bee done Philip23 through contention or varneglorie, /ut that in meekeneffe ofmind entry man acme other better ¡hen himfrlfe. And our Sauiour Chrifl: .