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And now how happy we, if God would work mens spirits to this, who enjoy preferment, delights, and riches above other men:¹ you have power to do much good, use not your power against God, but for God. O that you had but so much liberty to your spirits, as to bethink your selves, wherefore God hath raised you above others: but reason and religion are usually drowned in these in their sensual lusts: they think they have enough in their honours, and in their pleasures, to commend them, and make them happy; but as for religion, that is for private men, who have nothing else ⟨p. 82⟩to comfort themselves in▪ ²Even Seneca a heathen had this complaint concerning their religion in their times: Holiness (says he) piety, and faith, are private good things: It seems that even then those that lived publicly in the world in their honours & delights, they thought their pomp and glory to be sufficient, and that they need not the help of virtue to commend them. It was likewise the complaint of Lucan; ³Let him go from the Court, that intends to be pious: virtue and great power cannot agree together. But is not opportunity of service for God, and his people, as great a good as any you can have? is not the excellency of any thing you have above others, in this especially, that you have opportunity to do more good then others?⁴ and what is a mans happiness, but his goodness?

And now how happie wee, if God would worke mens spirits to this, who enjoy preferment, delights, and riches above other men:¹ you have power to doe much good, use not your power against God, but for God. O that you had but so much liberty to your spirits, as to bethinke your selves, wherefore God hath raised you above others: but reason and religion are usually drowned in these in their sensuall lusts: they thinke they have enough in their honours, and in their pleasures, to commend them, and make them happie; but as for religion, that is for private men, who have nothing else