common good, he must be acknowledged a worthy member of the commonwealth; and his course of life, though not so toilsome, yet, in its kind, as necessary and profitable as that of the husbandman or merchant. But for the do-nothing-man, who lives in no settled course of life, but passes his time in sleeping, and pleasures, and vanities, as if he were born for nothing else than to eat, and drink, and sport; let him know there is not the poorest creature who cries kitchen-stuff in the streets, but deserves his bread better than he, and whose course of life is of better esteem with God, and every wise man, than his. Consider this,—you that are of noble or generous birth. Look unto the rock whence you were hewn, and to the pit whence you were digged. Search your pedigrees; collect the scattered monuments and histories of your ancestors; and observe by what steps your worthy progenitors raised their houses to the height of gentry or nobility. Scarcely shall you find a man of them, that

gave any accession, or brought any eminence to his house, but by either serving in the camp, or toiling at the bar, or adventuring on the seas, or trucking in his shop, or some other way industriously bestirring himself in a settled calling, and course of life. You usurp their arms, if you inherit not their virtues; and those ensigns of honour which they by industry achieved, sit no otherwise upon your shoulders, than as rich trappings upon asses' backs; which serve but to render the poor beast more ridiculous.

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HUMILITY.

"Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil."

"The fear of the Lord is to hate evil : pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."

"When pride cometh, then cometh shame : but with the lowly is wisdom."

"Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom."

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured."

"In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride but the lips of the wise shall preserve

them."

"He that despiseth his neighbour, sinneth : but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he."

"The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility."

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Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished."

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud."

"Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility."

A high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin."

'By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honour, and life."

"Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease."

"It is not good for men to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory."

"Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Let

another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips."

"To have respect of persons is not good: for, for a piece of bread that man will transgress."

"He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat."

"He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool : but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered."

"Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath."

"A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit."

"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit."

There never was a man truly and inwardly humbled, but God in the riches of his special