Behold an holy Separatist,
Whose sanctity doth not consist
In setting of himself apart,
Both from the world, and his own heart
With a keep-back, as if that none
Must neer him come; but stands alone,
Like the disdainful Pharisee
That thinks no man so good as he.
No, he himself doth most despise,
And humble is in his own eyes;
So ful of meekness and so mild,
As is the newly-weaned child;
His faith though firm is lowly built,
Judging his own, not other's guilt;
This humble-minded man God deems,
So highly of, so well esteems,
That He divides him from the rest
And him impropriates for the best;
To His own special use him takes,
And his select companion makes.
The godly man most humble is,
There is no godly man but this.
Let me cast down my self among
The ordinary common throng;
And with Paul make it my beliefe,
That I of sinners am the chief.
In lowlinesse of mind let me
Think that all others better be,
So that I with the Publican
Be the more truly Christian,
And God to His immediate
Attendance will me separate;
Thus the Most High wil not disdain
To make the lowest one of's traine,
And he that doth himselfe abase,
Shal be prefer'd to highest place.
Whose sanctity doth not consist
In setting of himself apart,
Both from the world, and his own heart
With a keep-back, as if that none
Must neer him come; but stands alone,
Like the disdainful Pharisee
That thinks no man so good as he.
No, he himself doth most despise,
And humble is in his own eyes;
So ful of meekness and so mild,
As is the newly-weaned child;
His faith though firm is lowly built,
Judging his own, not other's guilt;
This humble-minded man God deems,
So highly of, so well esteems,
That He divides him from the rest
And him impropriates for the best;
To His own special use him takes,
And his select companion makes.
The godly man most humble is,
There is no godly man but this.
Let me cast down my self among
The ordinary common throng;
And with Paul make it my beliefe,
That I of sinners am the chief.
In lowlinesse of mind let me
Think that all others better be,
So that I with the Publican
Be the more truly Christian,
And God to His immediate
Attendance will me separate;
Thus the Most High wil not disdain
To make the lowest one of's traine,
And he that doth himselfe abase,
Shal be prefer'd to highest place.
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