CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

1. This is the greatest love and charity to them: You cannot discover greater compassion then by taking care of their Souls; Their Souls are more worth then all the world, how highly did Christ esteem of Souls, when he came into the world and endured all that misery for Souls only? He died only to make them blessed.

2. Consider that thy evil example who art a Governor doth encourage and embolden Inferiors in their wickedness; They are the more obstinate because ⟨p. 301⟩thou showest no dislike, no frowns on them, they think they have cause to sin then; It's well observed by Lactantius, speaking of this particular about Example, The nature of man is proclive to all vice, and would seem not only cum veniâ but ratione peccare, and this they never do more plead then when their Superiors are such as act Wickedness, or else do countenance it.

2. Consider that thy evil example who art a Governour doth encourage and embolden Inferiours in their wickednesse; They are the more obstinate because ⟨p. 301⟩thou shewest no dislike, no frowns on them, they think they have cause to sinne then; It's well observed by Lactantius, speaking of this particular about Example, The nature of man is proclive to all vice, and would seem not only cum veniâ but ratione peccare, and this they never do more pleade then when their Superiours are such as act Wickednesse, or else doe countenance it.

3. Be moved hereunto from the Certainty of the Souls good and uncertainty of all worldly things; When thou hast consumed thy self in thoughts and cares about thy Children; Solomons Observation will hold true, Who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a Fool, thou hast laboured for,