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Chapter 7

We shall yet, cousin, consider in these outward goods of
fortune--as riches, good name, honest estimation, honourable fame,
and authority--in all these things we shall, I say, consider that
we love them and set by them either as things commodious unto us
for the state and condition of this present life, or else as things
that we purpose by the good use of them to make matter of our
merit, with God's help, in the life to come.

Let us then first consider them as things set by and beloved for
the pleasure and commodity of them for this present life.

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