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ends, which, upon every small occasion, breaks out into enmity, open war,
defiance, heart-burnings, whispering, calumnies, contentions, and all
manner of bitter melancholy discontents. And those men which have no other
object of their love, than greatness, wealth, authority, &c., are rather
feared than beloved; _nec amant quemquam, nec amantur ab ullo_: and
howsoever borne with for a time, yet for their tyranny and oppression,
griping, covetousness, currish hardness, folly, intemperance, imprudence,
and such like vices, they are generally odious, abhorred of all, both God
and men.

"Non uxor salvum te vult, non filius, omnes
Vicini oderunt,"------

"wife and children, friends, neighbours, all the world forsakes them, would
feign be rid of them," and are compelled many times to lay violent hands on
them, or else God's judgments overtake them: instead of graces, come
furies. So when fair [4583]Abigail, a woman of singular wisdom, was
acceptable to David, Nabal was churlish and evil-conditioned; and therefore
[4584]Mordecai was received, when Haman was executed, Haman the favourite,
"that had his seat above the other princes, to whom all the king's servants
that stood in the gates, bowed their knees and reverenced." Though they
flourished many times, such hypocrites, such temporising foxes, and blear
the world's eyes by flattery, bribery, dissembling their natures, or other
men's weakness, that cannot so apprehend their tricks, yet in the end they
will be discerned, and precipitated in a moment: "surely," saith David,
"thou hast set them in slippery places," Psal. xxxvii. 5. as so many
Sejani, they will come down to the Gemonian scales; and as Eusebius in
[4585] Ammianus, that was in such authority, _ad jubendum Imperatorem_, be
cast down headlong on a sudden. Or put case they escape, and rest unmasked
to their lives' end, yet after their death their memory stinks as a snuff
of a candle put out, and those that durst not so much as mutter against
them in their lives, will prosecute their name with satires, libels, and
bitter imprecations, they shall _male audire_ in all succeeding ages, and
be odious to the world's end.

MEMB. III.
_Charity composed of all three Kinds, Pleasant, Profitable, Honest_.

Besides this love that comes from profit, pleasant, honest (for one good
turn asks another in equity), that which proceeds from the law of nature,
or from discipline and philosophy, there is yet another l