incapable of attaining to Wifdom. 26g ments as difparage the human nature, or SEAM. any fuch temper and behaviour as are un- X. worthy its dignity ; we mull not degrade ourfelves into a lower fpecies that we may be humble men ; that is rather to unman ourfelves : nay, we ought to contend for the privileges of our being, for the freedom which belongeth to us as men, in the ufe of our reafon for directing our conduct, and all other common rights ; to betray and give them up to any invader, is ábjeét bafe- nefs, and no virtue at all : And as the apo- file, Rom. xii. 3. exhorteth every man not to think of himfelf more highly than he ought to think, but foberly, humility doth not re- quire any man to think more meanly than the truth. But with refpeét to God, it con - fifieth in a juif fenfe of our own fubjeétion and dependance, of our own weaknefs and guilt, that we may be ready to yield him that obedience and refignation he claimed), and to comply with thofe methods for our inftruétion and falvation he prefcribeth ; and with refpeét to men, it confifteth in a due regard of their common rights, and to thofe which belong to every one in particular, ac- cording to their feveral relations, and their valuable and ufeful abilities, qualities, and accomplifhments of any kind, without en- croaching
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