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Phil. Neighbours one word with you, & than an end of this your first flour. Remember that your flour is called, Unfeigned humility, because ye may not ⟨image 38⟩outwardly pretend humility, and inwardly be inflated with Pharisaical arrogancy, & puffed up after the manner of the proud Hypocrites, and supercilious Pharisees,¹ whom Christ & his Apostles rebuke so oft in the holy scriptures for their feigned holiness. Be no painted sepulchres, outwardly fair, and inwardly full of rotten bones, and all filthiness. For many,² as saint Jerome saith, follow the shadow of Humility, but few the trueth. Let all glossing words be taken away, let all feigning gestures cease. Patience showeth a man to be truly hum ble. Let your humility therefore not only be expressed with gesture and voice, but also let it proceed from the pure affect of the heart. So may ye be sure to have God gracious & favourable unto you, & ever to prosper in all your honest travails & godly affairs. Hitherto have I ⟨image 39⟩spoken sufficiently of your first flour called,³ Unfeigned humility, and I have been the longer about it, because I would be glad to expel the poison of Pride out of your hearts which reigneth almost universally beyond all measure at this day, and to engraft in you this goodly herb, which is so sweet and wholesome, that without it no medicine can rightly be ministered. This being digested, all other are y• more easy to receive.

Phil. Neyghbours one worde wyth you, & than an ende of this your fyrst flour. Remember that your floure is called, Vnfayned humilite, bycause ye may not ⟨image 38⟩outwardely pretend humilite, and inwardely be inflated wythe Pharasaicall arrogancy, & puffed vp after the manner of the proud Hypocrites, and supercibious Pharises,¹