TÁE ADVANTAGES OP HUMÍLITY {sr. softer sex should find it working in themselves, i leave them to be their own reprovers. Dread the thoughts, Omy heart, of such a frantic and eelf-punishing iniquity. Suppress all haughty conceits of thy own worth and grandeur, lest meeting with some.un happy ferments of blood and complexion of humours they work up into such a world of mischief. Have a care of magnifying the image of thyself, and thou wilt not become a slave to such unmanly humours, such haughty and sullen airs, or such wild and unruly hurri- canes of spirit. Let the fond child cry and roar because his play -thing is broken : Let the fool storm or grow sullen because his will is thwarted ; let the dog bark, and the ox bellow, when the brutal choler is roused within them ; but remember thou art a man, a reasonable crea- ture, a christian. It becomes thee well to know thyself, and to govern thy conduct and thy temper. Do not . over-rate thy own fancy or appetite, nor be too fond of thy own will. 13e not violent in any of thy desires : All thy inclinations and thy aversions to the indifferent and common things of life should be but feeble and indiffer- ent. Do not thou imagine thyself worthy of such a pro- found subjection of the wills and humoursof all mart- 'kind to thy own will and humour. Remember, O my soul, thou art upon a level with all other men in the world, in many more instances than those few things, wherein providence has raised thee above them. III. The man who has low thoughts of himself, is not 'ever in pain to publish his own excellencies, nor seeking to proclaimhis own qualifications and honours. Though his zeal for God and his desire of the good ofinen forbid him to wrap his talent in a napkin, yet you find him rw- ther backward at first to appear, and not hasty and zea- lous to display himself. He hardly hears even the voice ofprovidence when it calls him forth to arise and shine. He is so fearful ofexaltation among the great, so sensible of his own defects, and pays so much honour to his fellows, that he thinks many a one fitter to perform, public offices than himself, and to sustain public honours. " f Less than the least" is his motto, and therefore he often hides himself as unworthy to be seen, and below 'the notice of the world. But if the world should happen to be so just to merit and virtueas to raise the humble man from his obscure
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