Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

Of the vanitie ofmorldl no6ilitiea 341 vnto any great good,ticatit is through mans corruption the nobility is mach caule of much hurt, let vs not ouerualue it, or too much let to be preferred our heartsvpon it ; but learning to defpife and contemneit, befrethat as being of finalworth,let vs labour to aduance our felues to nybich to world - fpirituall and heauenly nobility ; both becaufe it is moll ex- cellent andprofitable,and alto not like the other peculiar,to Tome few, but common to all, who letting their hearts and affec` ionsvpon it,doewith all their deliiresand indeauours feeke and fue for it.The excellencie ofthis fpirituall and hea- uenly nobility,appeareth both in their freedome that haue it, and alto in theiraduancement. They are freed from the Rom.6.rz. ílauifh tyrannie ofSatan,and from the bate feruitude of fin : to that as the Apofile faith, it (hall no longer reign in their Solaapudne- martall bodies; the which is to he efieemed the chiefefi art um libertaefi p pce- oftruenobilitie,when as holding nothing from thefe bafe caria.somma lords,they owe all their fealtie, allegiance,and feruice to the apadDeom lord ofall,and fupreame king ofheauen and earth. Whereas biliras eß,cla_ contrariwife,they who are mofi noble in their worldly e- t Heieronu fiate,arenotwithflandingalltheir honours and high titles, adCelanc.de ofamoil abieél and bate condition,as long as they remaine inflicut.ma- in the flauerie and bondage offin and Satan; for what more trisfam.com.t viic feruitude can be imagined, then to be the feruantoffin, ferm cot and to remaine Satans drudges, ready to doe his will? A- &ßa i:io[èt r gaine,thisfpirituall and true nobility freethvs fromtheo- uir,mihiliberefil uerruling power of our corrupt affections, and from the tu- multuous tyrannie of our violent pallions, bringing them 1e +itage e.z_ vnder therulc of the law of God, and in fubiedfion to holyfat,Gregor: reafon. The which priuiledge worldly nobility wanteth; Nazanzjn and confequentlybringeth with it fmall grace or profit for nobil. malè what auaileth it a man to bee outwardly glorious in the moral. world,and inwardly bafe in himfelfe ?to haue other men to Z77,',14;13;1" . cap and crouch to him, when as he ferueth more vitious and uiniuos ind ec bate mailers then the worn that ferne him ? and whilefio- fpedmenefl,vt ehers fioupe vntohim,and doe him honour; hee difgraceth roMbos rm e himfelfe by fiouping and yeelding to his vile affebiions and Nazün.de violent paffions ?Finally, this true and chriflian nobilitie, ncolog. doth caufe vs to (land boldly in the prefenceofour great Orar.z. king, in affurance of his loue,and to offer vnco him our vil- Roms.x r. 3 ling