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7 We must desire that which is truly good, for there are many kinds of good: There¹ is Issachar's good, Genes. chap. 49. Issachar an Ass of great bones couching down between two burdens, sa•e that which was good, and was content to bear. Howsoever many big boned Asses lay them down between a pair of burdens for ease, hastening only to avoy de the burthen and the heat of the day. There is Demetrius his good, the silversmith: Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our goods. For we know, that the labour is nothing so great now, as it hath been, and that in these days, a cluster of the common or civill law is worth an whole vintage of divinity. There is Balaacks good, Numb. chap. 22. I purpose to do thee good, to promote thee. There is Peters good: Be good to ²your self. •or we know, if he dare say to the King, thou art impious, he may carry John Baptists reward for his labour, and send his head for a second course. And yet there is a better good. For we must not, saith Sirach, Ask of a woman, touching whom she is •ealous nor of an ambitious man touching thankfulness, nor of an•ireling for the finishing of • work, nor of the men of the world touching the things pertaining to God: for the world is a great favourer of the heresy of the Libertines, and if we fall to counsel with flesh and blood, we may do to the book of God, as Jeconiah did to the Prophecy of Jeremiah, cut it in pieces with a pen-knife, and cast it into the fire, for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, 1 Cor. 1.

7 We must desire that which is truely good, for there are many kindes of good: There¹ is Isachars good,