A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

2. Look how ill an uncured love of Praise becomes another: ¹see how great a blemish and stain it is to them, how it lessens all other commendable Qualities: It is to dote on our own Shadow, and perish in the Love of it, as the Mythologists report of Narcissus. Such one is the most unfit of all men for humane Society, whether in a Converse of Friendship, Service or Command. A most untractable and useless piece; not fit to rule others, who wants a Prudence to rule himself; nor fit to receive Commands, while he admires himself, and dotes on his own contrivance; not fit to be a Friend, since all his Love runs waste on himself. The Emblem of such Persons is ingeniously drawn from the Ape, the ugliest (as the Lord Bacon observes) of Creatures, the most mischievous in his Pranks, useless and saucy: And are such worthy to be loved? How comely a sight do you think an ill shaped Ape, grinning on his own Features in a flattering Glass, would be? Such is the man that loves to see himself in Flattery's Mirror. How glorious was Alexander M. while he rejected Fawners! How lovely! but how Eclipsed, how despicable when he believed, and loved them! which the Athenians did generously enough witness, when they fined their Envoy ten Talents, for calling him a God, and put to death Evagoras for Adoring him. There was more than ordinary in Herod, which gave him the Name of Great, but when he over-loved the Praise of men, God left him a Monument and Warning to all Posterity, giving up so contemptible a Slave of his own vain-glory, to the most contemptible, loathsome and shameful death: Lice bred in his own Bowels, destroy his Body, as the Vermin of Self-love, and Self-admiring reflections had destroyed his Mind. Look first on the deformity of a Self-admirer, next on the beauty of a self-denying Humility, and this will cure this distemper. As the sight of the Putrid Carcass once cured the fond desire of Friends, who doted on their own Fancy for his Picture whilst living; or as the sight of the Loathsomeness in Serapis's Temple, cured the Superstitious Egyptians: So the sight of the deformity of our Love of the undue Praise of men, would cure this disease. But

2. Look how ill an uncured love of Praise becomes another: ¹see how great a blemish and stain it is to them, how it lessens all other commendable Qualities: It is to dote on our own Shadow, and perish in the Love of it, as the Mythologists report of Narcissus. Such one is the most unfit of all men for humane Society, whether in a Converse of Friendship, Service or Command. A most untractable and useless piece; not fit to rule others, who wants a Prudence to rule himself; nor fit to receive Commands, while he admires himself, and dotes on his own contrivance; not fit to be a Friend, since all his Love runs waste on himself. The Emblem of such Persons is ingeniously drawn from the Ape, the ugliest (as the Lord Bacon observes) of Creatures, the most mischievous in his Pranks, useless and saucy: And are such worthy to be loved? How comely a sight do you think an ill shap't Ape, grinning on his own Features in a flattering Glass, would be? Such is the man that loves to see himself in Flattery's Mirrour. How glorious was Alexander M. while he rejected Fawners! How lovely! but how Eclips'd, how despicable when he believed, and loved them! which the Athenians did generously enough witness, when they fined their Envoy ten Talents, for calling him a God, and put to death Evagoras for Adoring him. There was more than ordinary in Herod, which gave him the Name of Great, but when he over-loved the Praise of men, God left him a Monument and Warning to all Posterity, giving up so contemptible a Slave of his own vain-glory, to the most contemptible, loathsome and shameful death: Lice bred in his own Bowels, destroy his Body, as the Vermin of Self-love, and Self-admiring reflections had destroy'd his Mind. Look first on the deformity of a Self-admirer, next on the beauty of a self-denying Humility, and this will cure this distemper. As the sight of the Putrid Carkass once cured the fond desire of Friends, who doted on their own Fancy for his Picture whilest living; or as the sight of the Loathsomeness in Serapis's Temple, cur'd the Superstitious Aegyptians: So the sight of the deformity of our Love of the undue Praise of men, would cure this disease. But