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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	aaron_n	beard_n	ointment_n	15	3	10.3501	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57598	Londons resurrection, or, The rebuilding of London encouraged, directed and improved in fifty discourses : together with a preface, giving some account both of the author and work / by Samuel Rolls.	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.	1668 (1668)	Wing R1879; ESTC R28808	254,198	404

of vast trades as great or greater than ever hoping by that means to run through all the signes in the Zodiack of that honour which London can confer not content with a reasonable trade such as may be sufficient for us if we aspire to have London after the fire forthwith excel it self in all other worldly things as much as it is like to do in the magnifitence of its buildings and cannot be satisfied in the thoughts of its doing otherwise as a man whose profession obligeth him to wear good cloaths ought to be content if he cannot purchase every thing accordingly I say if we be conscious to our selves of all or of any of these things certainly we are proud and that in such a kind and to such a degree as may hinder the building of our City viz. by provoking God to blast that worthy undertaking for the scripture saith Prov. 29.23 A wans pride shall bring him low and Prov. 16.18 Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit befire a fall and Prov. 11.2 When pride cometh then ●●meth shame all which passages do shew that pride may contribute much to the pulling down of a City but never to the building it up Therefore in order to the building up of London I commend the grace of Humility for contrariorum contraria est ratio contraries have contrary effects If a mans pride will bring him low then as Solo●on addeth in the same verse honour shall uphold the humble in spirit Prov. 29.23 If pride goes before destruction humility goeth before exaltation and if a haughty spirit before a fall then a lowly spirit before a rise and if with pride cometh shame then where humility is mens hopes and designs do usually not make them ashamed that is do prosper and take effect Here I expect to be asked what is humility as Pilate put the question what is truth The answer is at hand humility is that grace whereby we are inclined not to think of our selves more highly than we ought to think but to think soberly according to the measure which God hath dealt to every one That description I gather out of Rom. 12.3 Humility is radically seated in that faculty of the soul which is called the Judgment or understanding in that faculty is the root of that matter It is true there are several branches of it but they do manifestly spring from that root viz. from sober thoughts of our selves or not thinking of a mans self above what he ought A man may think himself as good as he is to the full and yet not be proud provided he do not think himself to be better than he is or stretch himself beyond his line He that thinks himself to be no better than indeed he is all things confidered cannot but be numble David professeth his humility Ps 131.1 2. Lord my heart is not haughty nor my eyes lofty neither do I exercise my self in great matters or in things to high for me surely I have behaved and quieted my self as a child that is weaned of his mother my sould is even as a weaned child From those words I gather that though Humility be first at least in order of nature in the intelect or judgment as the ointment was poured out first upon the head of Aaron yet as that precious ointment ran down upon Aarons beard and upon the skirts of his garment So this grace diffuseth it self into the affections of men and into the course of their lives which I collect from two expressions used in that profession of Humility which David there maketh first saith he I have quieted my self as a child that is weaned of his mother that passage seemeth to relate to his affections which are the tumultuating raging part of the soul and therefore are called the ebbings and flowings or the tide of the will and therefore quieting is most properly to be refer'd to them His meaning seemeth to be that whereas before he had strong and impetuous defires a great ambition to some things which God saw were yet to high for him as namely to come to the throne which God had promised him I say whereas before he longed to be in possession of that earthly Kingdom which was promised him as a child might long for the breast yet now God had humbled him for so he saith my heart is not haughty he had no more desire to it till the time that God had appointed should be fulfilled than a child hath to that breast from which it hath been fully weaned A mean and modest opinion and judgment of a mans self killeth ambition at the very root and mortifieth our desires to those things that are too high for us as being sensible they would not become us as a poor labouring man is not ambitious to ride up and down in a Coach continually as knowing it would no ways suit his birth and breeding and poor condition He then is an humble man who desires not any thing that is too great for him as too great an esteem c. and therefore desires it not because he is sensible he doth not deserve it it would not become him as Solomon saith Excellent speech becometh not a fool Prov. 17.7 And honour is not seemly for a fool Prov. 26.1 It would ill become him as a Crown and Scepter would do the head and hand of one that is but a mean subject Men are not ambitious of those things that are extreamly above them because they cannot but see and known that they are above them but of such things as are not very much too high for them proud men are ambitious because their pride and self-love causeth them to think they may and do deserve them Now an humble man not thinking of himself above what is meet knows what he deserves not and thereupon desireth no more than what he doth really deserve and consequently is not ambitious for ambition is the desire of things that are too high for us Then from those words of David nor my eyes are not lofty neither do I exercise my self in things too high for me I say from thence may be collected that the grace of Humility as it is poured into the affections so it is poured out upon the life as it is impressed upon the whole inward man so it is expressed in the outward an humble inside and a proud outside are inconsistent an humble heart and a haughty look a heart cast down with true humility and eyes mean time lifted up with pride and a person exercising himself generally in things that are too high for him are incompatible Now the two latter viz. The not exercising himself in things that are too high for him and the quieting of himself as a weaned child did proceed from the first viz. that his heart was not haughty that is that he had no high conceit of himself and of his own deserts Nor do I remember any one expression whereby humility is set forth and recommended