Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

IV. Beware of being puffed up with Pride. ¹For wealth and riches are very apt to make men proud, as the Apostle intimateth, 1 Tim. 6. 17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, implying, that riches are very apt to make men high-minded, to think of themselves above what is meet, especially such as are raised out of nothing unto a great estate.

IV. Beware of being puffed up with Pride. ¹For wealth and riches are very apt to make men proud, as the Apostle intimateth, 1 Tim. 6. 17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they bee not high minded, implying, that riches are very apt to make men high-minded, to think of themselves above what is meet, especially such as are raised out of nothing unto a great estate.

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V. Therefore labour to be humble under thine abundance; to be low in thine own thoughts, when thou art high in the world; which indeed will prove thy glory: for humility is an ornament, as the Apostle Peter implieth under that phrase,¹ Be clothed or decked with humility▪ as with an ornament. Many men think humility a debasement, but the Spirit of God counteth it an ornament.

V. Therefore labour to bee humble under thine abundance; to be low in thine own thoughts, when thou art high in the world; which indeed will prove thy glory: for humility is an ornament, as the Apostle Peter implieth under that phrase,