His own conscience is contrasted with 'vaine outward things'.
As punctuated in 1633 the lines run: some vaine disport, On this side, sinne: with that place may comport.
These vaine buls the English and Dutchmen deriding, sayd that the deuill at all passages lay in ambush like a thiefe, no whit regarding such letters of safe conduct.
My Lord Chiefe Iustice, speake to thatvaine man Ch.
Some knock and faine would ope the doore, to learne the vaine good turne to praise: Some shew good face, and be but poore, yet haue a grace, good fame to raise.
More credite sée thou giue, to letters wrote in ise, Than vnto vaine deceits, of brittle worlds deuise.
No stormes or lingring miseries shall shake it, Much lessevaine titles of commaunding love.
Gentlemen for the most part do passe the night in banketting, musicke, and vaine discourses, they sleepe the day time.
I greet thy loue, Not with vaine thanks, but with acceptance bounteous, And will vpon the instant put thee too't.
My tongue withvaine threates is bolne, and waxen too big for my mouth.
A most vaine thing it is in many vniuersities at this daye, that they count him excellent eloquent, who stealeth not whole phrases but whole pages out of Tully.
By diuers of my good frends haue I been dealt with to employ my dul pen in this kinde, it being a cleane different vaine from other my former courses of writing.
For the French king had so stuffed them with notable numbers of men of warre, that they perceiued they should trauell invaine about the winning of them.
This fable, like all the rest, was bred of an old, ridiculous andvaine tale, the credite and trueth whereof is not woorth a strawe.
The experience as well of all things as of persons and times proueth your ouer greedie desire of noueltie, of fame and vaine glorie, and argueth your great negligence in maintaining the truth.
We doe altogether scorne these, being so vaine things, and breeding so great contempt against the Maiesty of God our creator, neither do we vouchsafe them any larger discourse.
Neither do these vaine phantasies deserue otherwise to be handled & confuted, then with such like meriments, & sportings.
For thee vaine foolish things thy Prophets sought, Thee, thine iniquities they have not taught, Which might disturne thy bondage: but for thee False burthens, and false causes they would see.
Our ease, our thrift, our honor, and our day, Shall we, for this vaine Bubles shadow pay?
How fit she was for God, I am content To speake, that Death his vaine hast may repent.
And wee as yet, for all these miseries Desiring our vaine helpe, consume our eyes: And such a nation as cannot save, We in desire and speculation have.
But when by such words, the nature of qualitie of the thing it selfe, is pretended to be changed, it is not Consecration, but either an extraordinary worke of God, or a vaine and impious Conjuration.
Without doubt nothing but pride of heart, disdaining to bee behind their neighbour, discontentment with the worke of God, and vaine glory, or a foolish affectation of the praise of men.
Samuel Rutherford declares the little treatise to be "a rude, foolish and unlearned Pamphlet of late penned and changing, as Familists and Antinomians doe, Scripture and God and Christ into metaphores and vaine Allegories.
There were in the [Sidenote: Alfred striueth in vaine to kéepe Adelstane from the gouernment.
O vaine peticioner, beg a greater matter, Thou now requests but Mooneshine in the water Kin.
These be the stops that hinder studie quite, And traine our intellects to vaine delight Ber.
For what the worse is that action that they erre in other thinges, more then their Baptisme is the worse that they erre in the other Sacrament, and haue eiked many vaine freittes to the Baptisme it selfe.
So counsell him, but sooth thou not his sinne, Tis vaine alurement that doth make him loue, I shame to heare, bee you a shamde to mooue.
Madam tis vertue in your grace to plead, But we that see his vaine vntoward course, Cannot but flie the fire before it burne, 1040 And shun the Court before we see his fall.
And hope invaine for that which now is lost: Where shall I hide my head?
But doo thou haunt the soft downe-rolling river, And wilde greene woods and fruitful pastures minde, And let the flitting aire my vainewords sever.
All such vaine moniments of earthlie masse, Devour'd of Time, in time to nought doo passe.
To such delights the noble wits he led Which him reliev'd, and their vaine humours fed With fruitles folies and unsound delights.
O vaineworlds glorie, and unstedfast state Of all that lives on face of sinfull earth!
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