Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

An envious man cannot endure to see others better then himself, or to have more respect then himself. It is reported of Licinius an intimate familiar with Constantine the Great, who also married his sister, but fell off to be a desperate enemy against Christians, alleging this to be the reason, because in their Assemblies they prayed for Constantine, and not for him. Envious men, whether they deserve respect or no, yet if others have it, and not themselves, they rage, and are mad.

An envious man cannot endure to see others better then himselfe, or to have more respect then himself. It is reported of Licinius an intimate familiar with Constantine the Great, who also married his sister, but fell off to be a desperate enemy against Christians, alledging this to be the reason, because in their Assemblies they prayed for Constantine, and not for him. Envious men, whether they deserve respect or no, yet if others have it, and not themselves, they rage, and are mad.

There is no vice but hath some kind of opposition to some other, as covetousness to prodigality, &c. but Envy only opposeth that which is good, and all good, therefore there is nothing in it but evil, and an universal evil. Gulielmus Parisiensis brings in Gregory, saying, That all the poison in the old Serpent is in this sin, as if it had emptied it self of its poison, and vomited it in this sin, so much venom there is in it.

There is no vice but hath some kind of opposition to some other, as covetousnesse to prodigality, &c. but Envy only opposeth that which is good, and all good, therefore there is nothing in it but evil, and an universal evil. Gulielmus Parisiensis brings in Gregory, saying, That all the poyson in the old Serpent is in this sinne, as if it had emptied it selfe of its poyson, and vomited it in this sinne, so much venome there is in it.