A Christian Directory Volume I Part 57
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[194] Philosophi libertas molesta est omnibus. P. Scalig. multo magis fidelis pastoris.
[195] Non est idoneus philosophiae discipulus, qui stultum pudorum non possit contemnere Id. ibid. p. 728.
[196] Of this subject read the preface to my book "Of Self-denial,"
and chap. 41. to chap. 51.
[197] Duplex est humilitas: una lucida solum et non fervida: quae ex ratione potius quam ex charitate exercetur.--Altera quae lucida fervidaque simul est, ex charitate magis quam ex ratione exercetur; non tamen citra rationem.--Humilitas enim (ut et reliquae virtutes) opus est voluntatis. Nam sicut virtutes per rationem cognoscimus, ita per dilectionem n.o.bis sapiunt. Thauler. flor. c. 7, p. 103, 104.
[198] See Plutarch Tract. How a man may praise himself without incurring blame? He that is blamed and suffereth reproach for well-doing, is justifiable if he praise himself, &c. p. 304.
[199] Siquid agere inst.i.tuis, lente progredere: in eo autem quod elegeris, firmiter persiste. Ba.s.s in Laert.
[200] Pertinacior tamen erat (Chrysanthius) nec de sententia facili discedebat: inquit Eunapius humilitatem ejus laudans.
[201] Bullingero ob eruditionem non contemnendam, morumque tam sanct.i.tatem quam suavitatem, percharus fuit. p. 591.
[202] Gen. xix. 8-10.
[203] c.u.m humilitatis causa mentiris, si non eras peccator antequam mentiris, mentiendo efficies quod evitaras. Augustin. de Verb. A post.
[204] Attila incessu adeo gestuosus et compositus, ut vel exinde superbissimi animi contraxerit infamiam. Callimach. Exper. de Attil.
p. 341.
[205] Quod a magnatum ac procerum congressu abstinuerit (Chrysanthius) alieniorque fuerit, non arrogantiae aut fastui tribuendum est, quin potius rusticitas quaedam aut simplicitas existimari debet in eo qui quid esset potestas ignorabat; ita vulgariter, et minime dissimulanter c.u.m illis verba fact.i.tabat. Eunapius in Chrysost.
[206] Jer. ix. 23, 24; Psal. xlix. 6; 2 Chron. xxv. 19.
[207] Ut lumen lunae in praesentia solis non apparet, pari ratione esse secundum in praesentia primi; nec meritum nostrum praesente merito Christi. Paul. Scaliger. Thess. 73, 74. de Mundo Archetyp. Epist. 1. 14.
[208] Idem sonant, summe amari, et esse finem ultimum: ac proculdubio Deus summe amandus est. Unum vero finem Aristoteles declaravit esse, usum virtutis in vita sancta et integra. Hesych. Ill.u.s.t. in Aristot.
[209] Laert. in Thal. speaketh of the oracle of Delphos adjudging the Tripos to the wisest; so it was sent to Thales, and from him to another, till it came to Solon, who sent it to the oracle; saying, None is wiser than G.o.d. So should we all send back to G.o.d the praise and glory of all that is ascribed to us.
[210] Laert. saith that Pythagoras first called himself a philosopher.
Nullum enim hominem, sed solum Deum esse sapientem a.s.serit: antea s?f?a dicta, quae nunc philosophia: et qui hanc profitebantur s?f??
appellati. quicunque ad summum animis virtutem excreverunt, hos nunc honestiore vocabulo, auth.o.r.e Pythagora, philosophos appellamus, p. 7.
[211] Quicquid boni egeris, in deos refer. Bias in Laert.
[212] Men sick in mind, as witless fools, and loose persons, and unjust, and injurious, think not that they do amiss and sin, &c. Plutarch.
Tract. That Maladies of the Mind are worse than those of the Body.
[213] Rom. v. 12, 17-19; John iii. 3, 5, 8; Jer. xvii. 9.
[214] His ergo qui loquendi arta caeteris hominibus excellere videntur, sedulo monendi sunt ut humilitate induti christiana discant non contemnere quos cognoverint morum vitia quam verborum amplius devitare, Aug. de Cat. rudib. c. 9.
[215] Non potest non indoctus esse, qui se doctum credit. Hermar.
Barbarus.
[216] Pliny saith, In commending another you do yourself right; for he whom you commend is either superior or inferior to you; if he be inferior, if he be to be commended, then you much more; if he be superior, if he be not to be commended, then you much less. Lord Bacon, Essay 54. p. 299.
[217] Clemens Alex. strom. l. 1. c. 4. Ait fideli christiano docenti vel unic.u.m sufficere auditorem.
[218] Isa. lxv. 5.
[219] Matt. xi. 19; ix. 11; xv. 2, 3.
[220] See 1 Tim. iii. 6; vi. 4. A cunning flatterer will follow the arch-flatterer which is a man's self. And wherein a man thinketh best of himself, therein the flatterer will uphold him most. But if he be an impudent flatterer, he will ent.i.tle him by force to that which he is conscious that he is most defective in. Lord Bacon, Essay 52.
[221] Hesich. Ill.u.s.t. saith of Arcesilaus, In communicandis facultatibus ac deferendis beneficiis supra quam dici potest promptus atque facilis fuit: alienissimus a captanda gloriola a beneficio, quod latere maluerat: invisens Ctesibium aegrotantem, quum videret illum in egestate esse, clam cervicali supposuit crumeunam nummariam, qua ille inventa, Arcesilai inquit, hicce ludus est.
[222] Psal. x. 2, 4; lxxiii. 6; x.x.xvi. 11; Eccl. x. 7.
[223] Rom. xii. 19, 20; Matt. v. 39; Col. iii. 13; 1 Thess. v. 14; 2 Pet. ii. 20.
[224] Jam. iii. 5; Psal. xlix. 6; x. 3; 2 Cor. x. 15.
[225] Inter benedicti signa humilitatis (in regula) est, ut pauca verba etiam rationalia loquatur, non clamosa voce: taciturnitas usque ad interrogationem: sed haec semper intelligenda sunt, salvo amore veritatis, et animarum.
[226] 2 Cor. xi. 9; 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8.
[227] Humilitas est, 1. Necessaria: subdere se majori, et non praeferre se aequali. 2. Abundans: subdere se aequali, nec preferre se minori: 3.
Perfecta: subdere se minori.--Gloss. sup. Matt. iii. Humilitatis septem gradus secundum Anselmum sunt. 1. Opinione: (1.) Se contemptibilem cognoscere. (2.) Hoc non dolere. 2. Manifestatione: (1.) Hoc confiteri: (2.) Hoc persuadere. (3.) Patienter sustinere haec dici. 3. Voluntate: (1.) Pati contemptibiliter se tractari. (2.) Hoc idem amare. Anselm. lib. de similit.
[228] Anaxagoras (in Laert. p. 87.) c.u.m vidisset mausoli sepulchrum: monumentum, inquit, pretiosum et lapidibus ornatum, divitiarum imago.
[229] aeneas Sylvius in Boem. c. 65, speaking of the boasting of the monk Capistrinus, saith, Superaverat seculi pompas, calcaverat avaritiam, libidinem subegerat, gloriam contemnere non potuit: nemo est tam sanctus qui dulcedine gloriae non capiatur. Facilius regna viri excellentes, quam gloriam contemnunt. Inter omnia vitia tu semper es prima, semper es ultima: nam omne peccatum te accedente committ.i.tur, et te recedente dimitt.i.tur. Innocent. de Contemp. Mundi. l. 2. c. 31.
[230] Jam. iv. 6; 1 Pet. v. 5; Isa. lvii. 15; Prov. xvi. 19; xxix. 23.
[231] Vainglorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of flatterers, and the slaves of their own pride.
Lord Bacon, Essay 54.
[232] Matt. ix. 24; v. 40.
[233] John xv. 20; Phil. ii. 7-10.
[234] 1 Cor. iv. 12-15; Acts xxiv. 5.
[235] See my "Treatise of Self-ignorance."
[236]
Fama est fictilibus cna.s.se Agathoclea regem, Atque abac.u.m Samio saepe onera.s.se luto.
Fercula gemmatis c.u.m poneret aurea vasis, Et misceret opes pauperiemque simul,
Querenti causam respondit: Rex ego qui sum Sicaniae, figulo sum genitore satus.
Fortunam reverentur habe, quicunque repente Dives ab exili progredire loco.
Auson. li. Epigram.
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