The duty of self-denial briefly opened and urged. By Thomas Watson, minister of the…

—Ostendit avis junonia pennas—

Acts 8.9, There was a certain man named Simon, giving out that himself was [Greek or Hebrew], some great one. Sapor writes himself, Brother of the Sun and Moon. Commodus the Emperor called himself, The Golden Hercules. The Persian Kings would have their Images worshipped of all that came into Babylon^*. Such as view themselves in the flattering glass of self-love, appear bigger in their own eyes than they are. They think their spark a Sun, their drop a Sea. They are highly conceited of their acumen, their wit and parts, and are ready to despise others^*. The Chinese say that Europe hath one eye, and they have two, and all the World else is blind.

Acts 8.9, There was a certain man named Simon, giving out that himself was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, some great one. Sapor writes himself, Brother of the Sun and Moon. Commodus the Emperor called himself, The Golden Hercules. The Persian Kings would have their Images worshipped of all that came into Babilon^*. Such as view themselves in the flattering glass of self-love, appear bigger in their own eyes than they are. They think their spark a Sun, their drop a Sea. They are highly conceited of their acumen, their wit and parts, and are ready to despise others^*. The Chineses say that Europe hath one eye, and they have two, and all the World else is blind.

1. *Brissonius.
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