The tender Confcienc.e. 17)· !u ...... le_s_t_o_w=- ... -aikby ~;h~~ -a perm- ifi-1v_e_P-ra-v-i--C-;-. a-p-. ~-~. _ dence, or a prevailing poJver, and a concur- ... ~ ·ring fuitable Opportunity. In maxima fortun" minima efllicentia. Seneca. 12 N ote! Nor dare he dowhat others ha'lie familiarly done before him, in his place. As · Nehemiah, though he knewwhat was theGo.. vernours power, and what hemight claim for his due ; yea, what efrates their fervants had raiLed formerly, 'yet thu1 did nr;t he; his con· fcience would not ferve him to raife him– felf and his houfe, by impofing Taxes and. Payments upon the People : H~ fiudied not how much f1e might profit him[elf, and how good he might make his place, hut how much he might profit otheu, and .how much g(}od be migbt do in his plate; he fought rather pr.culejJethenpr£effi: Hekept aPrincely Court~ an open Houfe, an honourable Table, an hundredand fi[ty at tbe lea(f every day were at hi1 Neh. S· 14, Table, yet did he not charge the Publique I S• 16,r7, with it; Yet for all tbiJ InquirednrJqbe bread IS,l9· of the Governour, becaufe of the hard.times that lay fo heavie on the People. Lutber couldglory in it, that hewas poor himfelf 1 yet many tyere inrichedby him. And .Auftin faith, Amon~ all the Gallants that ever the R.omanu could glory in, there was none to be preferred toM. Atti/tus llegulus, a brave Commander, ~emneque f,elicitas corruperit, Civit Dei, ~ami~ ~anta Vi{iori~ pauperrimU.f permanfit, nee I. I • C·2.f· znf,el~cztas fregerit, becaufe hegot all he could for h1s Country, nothing for him[elf: He continued
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