And those who,
on the other hand, seek unto God therein, both comfort and profit
they greatly take thereby.
XIX
VINCENT: I like well, good uncle, all your answers therein. But
one doubt yet remaineth there in my mind, which ariseth upon this
answer that you make. And when that doubt is solved, I will, mine
own good uncle, encumber you no further for this time. For
methinketh that I do you very much wrong to give you occasion to
labour yourself so much in matter of some study, with long talking
at once. I will therefore at this time move you but one thing, and
seek some other time at your greater ease for the rest.
My doubt, good uncle, is this: I perceive well by your answers,
gathered and considered together, that you will well agree that a
man may both have worldly wealth and yet well go to God; and that,
on the other hand, a man may be miserable and live in tribulation
and yet go to the devil. And as a man may please God by patience in
adversity, so may he please God by thanks given in prosperity. Now
since you grant these things to be such that either of them both
may be matter of virtue or else matter of sin, matter of damnation
or matter of salvation, they seem neither good nor bad of their own
nature, but things of themselves equal and indifferent, turning to
good or to the contrary according as they be taken.
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