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DVtie is the bond, or obligation of the soule, wherby we are inioind cheerfully and willingly, without force or constraint, to be to euerie one that which we should be, and that which we are borne to be; namelie that we should be holie to God, righteous to the world, and sober to our selues. The performance of which dutie in these seuerall points, makes our life perfect, & acceptable, but failing in any one of thē, we fail in that for which we were
created, and so consequentlye shall neuer attaine to that end and soue∣raigne good, for which these dewties were appointed, namely eternall hap∣pinesse. Therefore it is a fond opinion of those men, that thinke al is well with them, when they haue well prouided for themselues: a further charge is laid vpon them, they must also be carefull for others, and labor so far foorth as in them lyes for the common good and profitte of all men. For he liues moste orderlie and moste happelie, whoe as little as may be, liueth to himselfe: and he moste disorderlie and most cursed∣lie that liueth onely to himselfe, and hath regard of nothing but his owne profit.