Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

¡co, Of the vanitie ofirorlcilyAlorie, vulgarpral(cs, commending our vertues and good parts; and if we will bat is the ap- needs haue honor and praife,let vs haue it from within vs;for Gott atad tbete. no man can difhonor him who thus- maketh himfelfe ttuely ßimonieajoor honorable; whereas if we inwardly difhonor and difgrace ow- Ate canf oen. our fillies with the obloquic of' an cull! confcience, all the ecc. praifesand Commendations which we can haue outwardly sedquerislau- from men will not at all profit or auailevs.. A aine if wee dens abalio ?tn ' p g ' igiene reip ¡um cileeme our glorie a chicle treafure, why fhould we commit bonora,e'r nano it to the cuflodie of other men, and lay it vp in the weake tedeltan, flare chele of their mouches? why fhould we iland at their curtefie paterit Chry- and deuocion, to haue it when they pleafe,and to receiue re. folt.in Manh. ulfcs and diforaces when it flandeth with theirlikin ? h a7. Homil.88, p c g w y siultnslumfi fhould webeg that which ourfelues may freely glue ?and be eifiellalabia- beholding for that, which we might haue at our own dilpo_ rorntuorurn gin- fng ?why fhould we not layvp our creature where we may clam meow "" at p leafure refume it, when we hauevfe of it; but fuller it to eidern,etcapo _ mend -care eam be out ofour owne hands in other mens keeping,and intreat, abs to cum ha- that which we might command? or if we thinke that -iron bete volsero. harred .chefeofa good .confcience,is not lirong or fafee- Bernard.fuper. Hough to keepe thisiewell, but needs we will put it out,and =ruff it vnto others fafer cullodie ; then what ridiculous & cpiti.4a. folly is it, to make choice of the vulgar peoples lips and Magna 4 eirts mouches, being a weake and open coffer without locke or gloria ion nut- bolt, which being (hut co none, any that lift may (leale it tiro i,,&r out? How much better were it for vs to commit this treafure erejcit, it nnUi- xa vituperatio- vnto Gods owne cullodie,fo approuing our confciences vn- ne minuitur. to him, as that we may haue his praife and approbation, fee- Caffian.in ingit will bemotifecure and fafe in hiskeeping, becaufe he Sella m ower to p ful! is oll f referueit ' and moll faithful! to reftore sellaped pope- tram, ingniec, k? For then w6uld it be out of the reach both of fcorne and magna deipjo mule;and attaine vino fuchaperfe &greatnes, that neither climatic est : thepraifcs ofw-orldlings would increafe it,nor their difprai- q tidnam hoc fr- bi volt non fes diminifh or abate it?-Neither in truth will it ought auaile ? enim certe pops. vs, though worl dlings and vulgar people fhould with neuer be, led Deus fo much conllancie (setoff and magnifie vs, if we haue not index eff,3tc. pralle and approbation fromGod,and our own.confciences; Chryfof4, in teeing hefe alone are our witnesand our iud c,they.hauin g Match;t silo. g g roil.gt. nothing to doe eitherto iuftifie orrondemne vs. For who would