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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
w
hi
eh
I
have
bLcn
endeavouring
to detcribe•
.
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