The Godly Man's Picture

2. An humble soul thinks better of others than of himself, Phil. 2. 3. Let each esteem others better than ^†themselves. An humble man values others at an higher rate than himself; and the reason is, because he can better see his own heart than he can another's; he sees his own corruption, and thinks sure it is not so with others, their Graces are not so weak as his, their corruptions are not so strong; sure (thinks he) they have better hearts than I: An humble Christian studies his own infirmities, and another's excellencies, and that makes him put an higher value upon others than himself, Pro. 30. 2. Surely I am more brutish than any man. And Paul, though he were the chief of the Apostles, yet he calls himself the least of Saints, Eph. 3. 8.

2. An humble soul thinks better of others than of himself, Phil. 2. 3. Let each esteem others better than ^†themselves. An humble man values others at an higher rate than himself; and the reason is, because he can better see his own heart than he can anothers; he sees his own corruption, and thinks sure it is not so with others, their Graces are not so weak as his, their corruptions are not so strong; sure (thinks he) they have better hearts than I: An humble Christian studies his own infirmities, and anothers exellencies, and that makes him put an higher value upon others than himself, Pro. 30. 2. Surely I am more bruitish than any man. And Paul, though he were the chief of the Apostles, yet he calls himself the least of Saints, Eph. 3. 8.

1. †Humilitas est contemptus propriae excellentiae. Bern. de gard. humil.