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That which Clemens Alexandrinus says concerning dwelling in magnificent houses, is true of all other pomp and glory in the world. How much more glorious (says he) is it to do ⟨p. 83⟩good to many, then to dwell magnificently? who knows what may be done in godly courses, if you will begin them? how may others be provoked likewise thereunto? how ever it falls out, it is no great matter that we hazard; what is my honour? my pleasure? my estate? my liberty? my life? so God may be glorified. There is more honour, and there ought to be more pleasure, and certainly there will be more pleasure, and certainly there will be more profit in the service of God, then in the enjoying all the world to my self and my posterity: If Gods honour be not dear and precious in mine eyes, how can I think that my honours, and my comforts, and my estate, and my posterity should be dear and precious in his eyes? If the public good falls,¹ shall I think to enjoy my ease and my peace, my estate and my honour upon good terms? Cicero laughed at the folly of those men, which in his time seemed to conceive such a windy hope, that their fish ponds, and places of delight ⟨p. 84⟩should be safe, when the commonwealth was lost. In public calamities, if your person should escape (which you can have no security of) yet you cannot expect, that your honours, and riches should escape from being made a prey.

That which Clemens Alexandrinus sayes concerning dwelling in magnificent houses, is true of all other pompe and glory in the world. How much more glorious (sayes hee) is it to doe ⟨p. 83⟩good to many, then to dwell magnificently? who knowes what may bee done in godly courses, if you will begin thē? how may others be provoked likewise thereunto? how ever it falls out, it is no great matter that wee hazard; what is my honour? my pleasure? my estate? my liberty? my life? so God may be glorified. There is more honour, and there ought to be more pleasure, and certainely there will be more pleasure, and certainely there will be more profit in the service of God, then in the enjoying all the world to my selfe and my posterity: If Gods honour be not deare and precious in mine eyes, how can I thinke that my honours, and my comforts, and my estate, and my posterity should be deare and precious in his eyes? If the publike good falls,