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The second thing observable is the time when he did this. Some may think, when he refused all this glory he might have had, that surely it was when he knew not what he did, it was when he was a child, in some rash fit of his youthful folly, when he was a novice, before he came to understand himself, it was before he could have any experience to know what these brave things were: or if not so, it was then when he began to grow old, and to dote, when his honours and pleasures began to leave him, and he was wearied, and discontented with them. No such matter, it was when he came to be of years, not a ⟨p. 104⟩child, and in the ripeness of his years, in his full strength, in the prime and choice of all his time, not in his decrepit age;¹ it was then when he might have enjoyed all honours and delights to the full, yet now he denies himself in them all: it was when his parts were in the ripeness and full strength of them, yet now he refuses, for so the words in the original imply all these, when he came to be great: from whence the observation is, That it is an honourable thing for one to deny himself in the prime of his time, when he is in the midst & height of the enjoyment of the delights, honours, and profits of the world, even, then when the world proffers whatsoever it hath to give content in, when the world courts a man in all her bravery, and presents whatsoever is desirable to flesh and blood, yet then to be above all, to deny ones self in all, to be crucified to the world before the world be crucified to us, then to be crucified to all, to be crucified to the world, when we may have full possession of it, this is something indeed.