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BOasting, is to extoll our selues in wordes more than cause is, or that we are worthy of.
Boasting is of three sortes, first, when we do shew our selues proud and arro∣gant in respect of temporall goods, as of wealth, great offices, costly raimēt, or in respect of giftes of the bodie, as of beautie, strength, health, and such like: or in respect of the guiftes of the mind, as of knowledge, sharpenesse of wit, perfection of memory, &c.
Secondly, when we make a repeti∣tion of our good workes, or graces, more for vaine-glorie and to winne re∣putation in the worlde, then for good example or to the glorie of God.
And thirdly, when wee publish out of our owne mouthes in ostentation, how rich we are, of what authoritie & dignitie, thereby to terrifie others and