Of the remedies against Pryde. CHAP. IIII.
WE handling in thys former part sinnes, & the re∣medies of them, will take our beginning from those seauen, which are called capitall, as it were the heads and fountaines of all other. For euen as the rootes of trees beeing cut vp,* 1.1 the boughes & branches, which receiue life from the rootes, doe foorth-with wither and perish▪ so those seauen generall & vniuersall rootes of all other vices beeing hewen in sunder, and vtterly eradicated, suddenly also the vices will dye, which are de∣riued from them. For this cause Cassianus with great diligence writ eyght bookes against these vices: in which kinde of studie, many other learned and graue men haue imitated him 〈◊〉〈◊〉 they did see that these enemies being ouerthrowne, others could not lift vp their heads. The reason of this is, because all sinnes doe originally flow from selfe-loue: because euery one of them is committed through the loue & desire of some particuler good, to desire which, this selfe-loue pricketh vs forwards. From this loue those three branches do spring, of which S. Iohn speaketh in his Canonicall Epistle:* 1.2 which are; The lust of the flesh, the lust