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Christian humility

The writings of Jeremy Taylor, chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud, contain what is possibly the best commendation of Christian humility.

Humility is the great ornament and jewel of the Christian

religion ... first put into a discipline and made a part of a religion

by our Lord Jesus Christ ... Remember that the blessed Saviour

of the world hath done more to prescribe, and transmit, and

secure this grace, than any other; his whole life being a great

continued example of humility, a vast descent from the glorious

bosom of his Father, to the womb of a poor maiden, to the form

of a servant, to the miseries of a sinner, to a life of labour, to a

state of poverty, to a death of malefactors, to the grave of death,

and to the intolerable calamities which we deserved.

Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667)