A Practical Treatise Concerning Humility Author:John Norris Subtitle: Design'd for the Furtherance and Improvement of That Great Christian Vertue, Both in the Minds and Lives of Men General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1707 Original Publisher: Printed for S. Manship Subjects: Humility Psychology / General Religion / Christian Life / General Religion / Sermons / Chr... more »istian Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. VI. Of the particular Duties and Effects of Humility with feme Remarks upon the Signs of it. I. IT T Aving already fhewn what Humility Li is, upon what it is immediately founj ded, the Reafonablenefs of it, the Excellency of it, and the indifpenfable Neceffity of it, I know not what in the handling of this Subjeft may better deferve to be next confider'dj than the particular Duties to which it obli ges us, and whereby it expreffes it felf 5 to the Confideration of which accordingly I now proceed 2. Though Humility, as was obferv'd be fore, be a Vertue which refpefts our fclves, and whereof we our felves are the only proper and immediate Objeft, yet the Effefts and Expreffions of it reach further than our fdves. And'tis of thefe Effefts that we are, I fuppofe, to be tmderftood when we fpeak of Humility towards God, Humility towards our Neighbour, and Humility towards our Selves, For indeed there can be but one Humility in all, and that is-that which regards our felves. But then this Humility towards our fetvct, ("the fole Objeft of that low Opinion wherein Humility confiftsj will have effefts out of and beyond our felves. That is I mean, it will make us behave and comport our felves in a certain manner with relation to God, our Neighbour, and o...« less