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Secondly, let us learn, not to envy the men of the ⟨p. 103⟩world, who live in pleasures, who wallow in the sensual delights of this life. The reason why they take so much delight in such things, is, because they know no better, they seek after no better.

Ambrose in his first Book de officiis, brings in ¹godly men objecting thus, Why do the wicked rejoice? why do they riot it out? why do not they labour as well as I? He answers, They have not put in for the crown; yea, says he, if you object thus, the wicked may answer you as the spectators in their Olympiack games, if those that labour and wrestle in them, should call the spectators, and say, Come you, and labour, and strive here as well as we; the spectators would answer, You without us shall get the glory of the crown, if you overcome.

Ambrose in his first Book de officiis, brings in ¹godly men objecting thus, Why do the wicked rejoyce? why do they riot it out? why do not they labor as well as I? He answers, They have not put in for the crown; yea, says he, if you object thus, the wicked may answer you as the spectators in their Olympiack games, if those that labor and wrastle in them, should call the spectators, and say, Come you, and labor, and strive here as well as we; the spectators would answer, You without us shall get the glory of the crown, if you overcome.

1. 1Cur impi• letantur cur luxuriantur? cur etiam ipsi non mecum laborant? Non subscripserint ad coronam. Veni nobis. cum, &c. Laborate vos, sine nobis coronae gloriā, si viceritis vindi cabitis. Ambros. li. 1. offic c. 16.Cur impi• letātur cur luxuriantur? cur etiam ipsi non mecum laborant? Non subscripserint ad coronam. Veni nobis. cum, &c. Laborate vos, sine nobis coronae gloriā, si viceritis vindi cabitis. Ambros. li. 1. offic c. 16.