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And yet further know, as there is a vanity and emptiness of good, so there is a mixture of much evil; they are as water in the bottom of pits exceeding muddy; the water is not much, but the mud causes it to be unuseful. If things be so mixed with trouble and cumberance, that the evil of them will not answer the good expected in them, we reject them as things unprofitable. You will deny your selves many times in forty, in a hundred things, to get your mind in some one, and it may be when you have it, it is not worth the while, such a thing as a true noble generous spirit would cast off with scorn; ⟨p. 61⟩you get honours, pleasures, and riches, but consider whether all be not muddy water, whether there be not much evil in the getting, and in the enjoyment of them, what fears and suspicions? what undermining one another? what disappointments? what vexations? what a clutter of business crossing one the other? what snares and temptations lye in your way at every hand? you walk all the day long upon snares, as Job. 18. 8. upon dangerous snares that bring much sin and guilt, and will bring much sorrow & misery: how little do you enjoy your selves for the present, nor any thing you have to your selves?

And yet further know, as there is a vanity and emptinesse of good, so there is a mixture of much evill; they are as water in the bottome of pits exceeding muddy; the water is not much, but the mud causes it to be unusefull. If things be so mixt with trouble and cumberance, that the evill of them will not answer the good expected in them, we reject them as things unprofitable. You will deny your selves many times in forty, in a hundred things, to get your minde in some one, and it may be when you have it, it is not worth the while, such a thing as a true noble generous spirit would cast off with scorn; ⟨p. 61⟩you get honours, pleasures, and riches, but consider whether all be not muddy water, whether there be not much evill in the getting, and in the enjoyment of them, what feares and suspitions? what undermining one another? what disappointments? what vexations? what a clutter of businesse crossing one the other? what snares and temptations lye in your way at every hand? you walke all the day long upon snares, as