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Rh 3. O how humbly and meanly ought I to think of myself! how ought I to esteem it as nothing, if I seem to have any good.

With what profound humility ought I to submit myself to Thine unfathomable judgments, O Lord; where I find myself to be nothing else than very nothing!

O weight that cannot be measured! O sea that cannot be passed over, where I discover nothing of myself save only and wholly nothing!

Where then can glorying hide itself? Who can trust in his own virtue?

All vain-glorying is swallowed up in the deep of Thy judgments over me.

4. What is all flesh in Thy sight?

Shall the clay glory against Him that formed it?

How can he be lifted up with vain words, whose heart is truly subject to God?

He whom the Truth hath subjected unto itself, not all the world will make him proud: neither shall he, who hath firmly settled his hope in God, be moved by the tongues of flatterers.

For even they themselves who speak are all nothing, for they will pass away with the sound of their words; but the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.