Measure of Things.

1. WE measure from our selves, and as things are for our use and purpose, so we approve them. Bring a Pear to the Table that is rotten, we cry it down, ’tis naught; but bring a Medlar that is rotten, and ’tis a fine thing, and yet I’ll warrant you the Pear thinks as well of it self as the Medlar does.

2. We measure the Excellency of o∣ther Men, by some Excellency we con∣ceive to be in our selves. Nash a Poet, poor enough (as Poets us’d to be) seeing an Alderman with his Gold Chain, upon his great Horse, by way of scorn, said to one of his Companions, do you see yon Fel∣low, how goodly, how big he looks; why that Fellow cannot make a blank Verse.

3. Nay we measure the goodness of God from our selves, we measure his Goodness, his Justice, his Wisdom, by something we call Just, Good, or Wise in our selves; and in so doing, we judge proportionably to the Country Fellow in the Play, who said if he were a King, he would live like a Lord, and have Pease and Bacon every Day, and a Whip that cry’d Slash.