-~ . if! the Soul o.f Man; 29 advice of ' his countrymen and ' l<indred, vvho would have had all ·ll.is great works performed in the eyes of the world, for gaining him the greater fame.· But when his charity had prompted him to 't:he re– lief of the rr1iferable, his hmnility made l1im many ti 11es injoin the conccaltnent of the miracle; and when the glory of God, and the dd'ign for which he came into the world, required the publication ~f therp,_ he afcribeth the honour of all to his Fa– ther, telling them, that of himjej he was ab/e to do nothing. _ I cannot infitt on all the in11ances of humility i'n his deportn1enr towards men ; his withdrawing himfelf when they would " have made him a king, his fubjccrion not only to his bldfed mother, but to her huf– band, during his younger years; and his – fubmiilion to all the indignities and af– fronts which his rude and malicious ene– n1ies did put upon hin1. The l!i11ory of his holy life, recorded by thofe who con– v~.:rfed with him, is full of fuch paffages as thtJe. · And indeed the ferious and at– tentive fiudy of it, is the bdl way to get right meafures of hu-mility, and all the oth~r pJns of religion whieh I have bLcn endeavouring to detcribe• . C 3 .. ·. But ...
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