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VAlerius Maximus,* 1.1 an eminent Observer of Times and Persons, sayes; That Alexander the Great had three ill qualities; First, That he looked upon his Father (though otherwise well enough qualified) as a Man of no d••sert at all. Secondly, Though he was a Macedonian born, yet he put himself into the Per∣sian garbe, because more rich and costly then his own. Thirdly, His conquest
had so swelled him, that he would be no longer a Man, but he must be a God forsooth, and no lesse then the Son of Iupiter: Such is the nature of Pride, and natural condition of all proud Men, whether it be in relation to things spirituall or temporall, that they think no Man good enough to be their fellow; Stand fur∣ther off,* 1.2 sayes one, I am holier then thou; Keep your distance, sayes another, I am Richer, greater, &c. then thou: Let a Man be but once got upon a Foot-cloath, how bigg doth he look upon inferiour passengers? And if he have pur∣chased a little more Land then his Neighbours, you shall see it in his garb; if he command, it is imperiously; if he salutes, it is with a surly and silent nod; He thinks with the Pharisee,* 1.3 he is not like other Men, he looks upon himself as a Gyant,* 1.4 and upon all the World besides as dwarfs, as if made for nothing but to be laughed at; when himself is but a Man, and, God knowes, a foolish one too, whom a little trash can a••••ect so deeply, not remembring, that as the King, so the beggar; as dyeth the wise Man, so the fool; and that the Rich and the Poor shall both meet together in the grave, Eccles. 7. 15.
Val. Max. Qui••tus Cur∣tius. de reb. ge••••is Alexand.
Joh. Feri Postillae.
Quid superbis terra et cinis, &c.
Origen. homil. in Ezech.