Of lowly submission
1. Make no great account who is for you or against you, but mind
only the present duty and take care that God be with you in
whatsoever you do. Have a good conscience and God will defend you, for he whom God will help no man's perverseness shall be
able to hurt. If you know how to hold your peace and to
suffer, without doubt you will see the help of the Lord. He
knows the time and the way to deliver you, therefore must you
resign yourself to Him. To God it belongs to help and to
deliver from all confusion. Oftentimes it is very profitable for
keeping us in greater humility, that others know and rebuke our
faults.
2. When a man humbles himself for his defects, he then easily
pacifies others and quickly satisfies those that are angered
against him. God protects and delivers the humble man, He
loves and comforts the humble man, to the humble man He
inclines Himself, on the humble He bestows great grace, and
when he is cast down He raises him to glory; to the humble He
reveals His secrets, and sweetly draws and invites him to
Himself. The humble man having received reproach, is yet in
sufficient peace, because he rests on God and not on the world.
Reckon not yourself to have profited in any way unless you feel yourself to be inferior to all.
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