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HUMÍLITY
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softer
sex
should
find
it
working in
themselves,
i
leave
them
to
be
their
own
reprovers.
Dread
the thoughts, O
my
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 humours
of
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 proclaim
his
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
of
providence
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 virtue
as to
raise the humble man from his obscure