For that ever he
himself saw Lazarus and knew that he died for hunger at his door,
that laid neither Christ nor Abraham to his charge. And therefore,
cousin, this story of which, by occasion of Abraham and Lazarus,
you put me in remembrance, well declareth what peril there is in
continual worldly wealth; and contrariwise what comfort cometh of
tribulation. And thus, as your other examples of Solomon and Job
nothing for the matter further you, so your example of rich Abraham
and poor Lazarus hath not a little hindered you.
XVII
VINCENT: Surely, uncle, you have shaken my examples sorely, and
have in your aiming of your shot removed me these arrows,
methinketh, further off from the mark than methought they stuck
when I shot them! And I shall therefore now be content to take them
up again.
But meseemeth surely that my second shot may stand. For of truth,
if every kind of tribulation be so profitable that it be good to
have it, as you say it is, then I cannot see why any man should
either wish, or pray, or do any manner of thing to have any kind of
tribulation withdrawn either from himself or from any friend of his.
ANTHONY: I think indeed tribulation so good and profitable that I
might doubt, as you do, why a man might labour and pray to be
delivered of it, were it not that God, who teacheth us the one,
teacheth us also the other.
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