Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

710 Tha:Worldlj thixgr eaafe many eaflr to or neighdoar . benummed with aduerfitie; but no foonerbath it had the feeling of the warmth of profperitie, but it beginneth to hifi'e in proud boaliing,and to (sing and cmpoifon with ma- ny infolencies,thofe who were the firll meanes of their wet. fare and aduancement. And howfocuer in their low ellate they might tally haue been ruled and led, and like (hips without falles and tackle, were readie toyeeldthemfelues over to the fireame and tide of other mens defires,anti oucr- ruling perfwa(ions; yet now hauing attained vntoprofpe- ritie and worldly abundance,as it were,vnto their full fades; they are onely carried with the wind oftheir ownepride, NU tam ja- going againli the tide ofrealón, and craning the current of prrbum,iarra- all other mens delires; no man now being more infolent ,fbm ell,quam churlifh and vntradlable, then thefe who latelywere fo plia- bomo quern fie- ble and curteous,after they, are once corrupted with worldly liciratisopiuio felicitie. An example whereof we haue in Hagar, who ca- eerraperir. rigid her felfeas became a feruant,whilefi fhe was in this bale Pluearch.com condition;but bein made her mailers concubine and ha- reequir dodr.e uinnborne a child vnto him, Thee prefently begins to de- tour.;, fpiieher inifireffe,whowas the onely caufe of her aduance- Genel.r6,4.' men t. Neither doe they now miflike this pride, and defire to be freed from it, as being an infirmitie or blemilh, which Pblm.7 ;.6. ill befeemes them,buc as the Pfalmifi fpeaketh,their pride is a chaine vnto them,and they voluntarily put it on as a chiefe ornament. And as theft worldly things bring themto this height of pride andinfolencywhen they abound with then; fo when as they haue raifed them to their heighefipitch,!if they then faile,and are taken away,they prefently fal down againe,like a ruinous houfe,when the props that beare it vp are pulled from it, and become more abiedlly bafe,and fer -. uilely pleating then suer before, now fcraping vp the old fragments of their before skorned acquaintance, loathing and flattering chafe, euen in their contradiólorie fpeeches, oiler whom not long lince they proudly infulted. So that thefeworldly vanities are the borrowed feathers and wings *ride, wherebyxnenloare aloft in the high pitch of their owns conceits; which when theyare.pulled,or clipt by fome aduerfe