Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

But remember, saith Aristippus, That I being elder than you, do make the first motion; Yea, said the other, and therefore I conclude you to be the worthier man, for I began the strife, and you began the peace. Let us all then be clothed with Humility, assume not in regard of your Learning, Wit or Parts; consider you are but Sharers in our Common Benefactor; neither let your Riches or Dignities make you to speak or write otherwise than you would do without them; and this will go a great way to prevent our biting and devouring one another.

But remember, saith Aristippus, That I being elder than you, do make the first motion; Yea, said the other, and therefore I conclude you to be the worthier man, for I began the strife, and you began the peace. Let us all then be cloathed with Humility, assume not in regard of your Learning, Wit or Parts; consider you are but Sharers in our Common Benefactor; neither let your Riches or Dignities make you to speak or write otherwise than you would do without them; and this will go a great way to prevent our biting and devouring one another.

5. Apply your selves to the Practice of Real Piety. By this I mean, that we should employ our chief care to procure and increase a lively Faith, to exercise daily Repentance, to strengthen our Hope, to inflame our Love to God, and to our Neighbour, to grow in Humility, Zeal, Patience, and Self-denial: To be diligent in Watchfulness over our Thoughts, Words and Ways, in Mortification of our sinful Passions and Affections, in the Examination of our Spiritual Estate, in Meditation, in secret and fervent Prayer, and in universal and steady Obedience. In these things do run the vital spirits of Religion: And whoso is seriously employed in these, will have but little time, and less mind for unnecessary Contentions. These will keep that heat about the Heart, which evaporating, degenerates into airy and fiery exhalations, and leaves the Soul as cold as Ice to any holy desires. It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein,