The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

5. Give every man the honour due to his place; but honour a man more for his goodness, than for his greatness. And of whomsoever thou hast received a benefit, unto him (as God shall enable thee) remember to be thankful. Acknowledge it lovingly unto Men, and pray for him heartily unto God: and count every blessing received from God as a pledge of his eternal love, and a spur to a godly life.

6. Be not proud for any external worldly goods, nor for any internal spiritual gifts. Not for external goods, because, that as they came lately, so they will shortly be gone again; their loss therefore is the less to be grieved at. Not for any internal gifts: for as God gave them, so will he likewise take them away, if (forgetting the giver) thou shalt abuse his gifts, to puff up thine heart with a pride of thine own worth; and contemn others, for whose good Almighty God bestowed those gifts upon thee. Hast thou any one virtues that moves thee to be self-conceited? thou hast twenty vices that may better vilify thee in thine own eyes.

6. Be not proud for any external worldly goods, nor for any internal spiritual gifts. Not for external goods, because, that as they came lately, so they will shortly be gone again; their loss therefore is the less to be grieved at. Not for any internal gifts: for as God gave them, so will he likewise take them away, if (forgetting the giver) thou shalt abuse his gifts, to puff up thine heart with a pride of thine own worth; and contemn others, for whose good Almighty God bestowed those gifts upon thee. Hast thou any one vertus that moves thee to be self-conceited? thou hast twenty vices that may better vilisie thee in thine own eyes.

Be the^* same in the sight of God, who beholds thy heart, that thou seemest to be in the eyes of Men, that see thy face. Content