I take goodness in this sense the affect of the weal of man which be that the  grease call a benevolence and the word humanity as it be use be a little too  light to express it goodness I call the habit and goodness of nature the  inclination this of all virtue and dignity of the mind be the great be the  character of the deity and without it man be a busy mischievous wretched thing  no better than a kind of vermin goodness answer to the theological virtue  charity and admit no excess but error the desire of power in excess cause the  angel to fall the desire of knowledge in excess cause man to fall but in  charity there be no excess neither can angel nor man come in danger by it the  inclination to goodness be imprint deep in the nature of man insomuch that if  it issue not towards man it will take unto other live creature as it be see in  the turk a cruel people who nevertheless be kind to beast and give nourishing  to dog and bird insomuch as Busbechius report a Christian boy in  Constantinople have like to have be stone for gag in a waggishness a long bill  fowl error indeed in this virtue of goodness or charity may be commit the  Italian have a ungracious proverb Tanto buon I val niente so good that he be  good for nothing and one of the doctor of Italy Nicholas Machiavelli have the  confidence to put in write almost in plain term that the Christian faith have  give up good man in prey to those that be tyrannical and unjust which he speak  because indeed there be never law or sect or opinion do so much magnify  goodness as the Christian religion do therefore to avoid the scandal and the  danger both it be good to take knowledge of the error of a habit so excellent  seek the good of other man but be not in bondage to their face or fancy for  that be but facility or softness which take a honest mind prisoner neither  give thou Aesop cock a gem who will be better please and happy if he have have  a barley corn the example of God teach the lesson true he send his rain and  make his sun to shine upon the just and unjust but he do not rain wealth nor  shine honour and virtue upon man equal common benefit be to be communicate  with all but peculiar benefit with choice and beware how in make the  portraiture thou break the pattern for divinity make the love of ourselves the  pattern the love of our neighbour but the portraiture sell all thou have and  give it to the poor and follow I but sell not all thou have except thou come  and follow I that be except thou have a vocation wherein thou may do as much  good with little mean as with great for otherwise in feed the stream thou dry  the fountain neither be there only a habit of goodness direct by right reason  but there be in some man even in nature a disposition towards it as on the  other side there be a natural malignity for there be that in their nature do  not affect the good of other the light sort of malignity turn but to a  crassness or forwardness or aptness to oppose or difficulty or the like but  the deep sort to envy and mere mischief such man in other man calamity be as  it be in season and be ever on the load part not so good as the dog that lick  Lazarus sore but like fly that be still buzz upon any thing that be raw  misanthropy that make it their practice to bring man to the bough and yet  never a tree for the purpose in their garden as Timon have such disposition be  the very error of human nature and yet they be the fit timber to make great  politic of like to knee timber that be good for ship that be ordain to be toss  but not for building house that shall stand firm the part and sign of goodness  be many if a man be gracious and courteous to stranger it show he be a citizen  of the world and that his heart be no island cut off from other land but a  continent that join to they if he be compassionate towards the affliction of  other it show that his heart be like the noble tree that be wound itself when  it give the balm if he easy pardon and remit offence it show that his mind be  plant above injury so that he can be shoot if he be thankful for small benefit  it show that he weigh man mind and not their trash but above all if he have  saint Paul perfection that he will wish to be anathema from Christ for the  salvation of his brother it show much of a divine nature and a kind of  conformity with Christ himself