6. And _love is not puffed up_. It abases to the dust every soul wherein it dwells. Accordingly he was _lowly of heart_, little, mean, and vile in his own eyes. He neither sought nor received the _praise of men, but that which cometh of God only_. He was meek and long-suffering, gentle to all, and easy to be intreated. Faithfulness and truth never forsook him; they were _bound about his neck, and wrote on the table of his heart_. By the same Spirit he was enabled to be _temperate in all things, refraining his soul even as a weaned child_. He was _crucified to the world, and the world crucified to him_: superior to _the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eye, and the pride of life_. By the same almighty love was he saved, both from passion and pride, from lust and vanity, from ambition and covetousness, and from every temper which was not in Christ. 7. It may be easily believed, he who had this love in his heart, would _work no evil to his neighbour_. It was impossible for him, knowingly and designedly, to do harm to any man. He was at the greatest distance from cruelty and wrong, from any unjust or unkind action. With the same care did he _set a watch before his mouth, and keep the door of his lips_; lest he should offend in tongue, either against justice, or against mercy or truth. He _put away all lying_, falshood and fraud; neither was _guile found in his mouth_. He _spake evil of no man_; nor did an unkind word ever come out of his lips. 8. And as he was deeply sensible of the truth of that word, _without me ye can do nothing_, and consequently, of the need he had to be _water’d_ of God _every moment_; so he _continued daily_ in all the ordinances of God, the stated channels of his grace to man. _In the apostles doctrine_ or teaching, receiving that food of the soul with all readiness of heart, _in the breaking of bread_, which he found to be _the communion of the body of Christ_, and _in the prayers_ and praises offered up by the great congregation. And thus he daily _grew in grace_, increasing in strength, in the knowledge and love of God. 9. But it did not satisfy him, barely to abstain from doing evil. His soul was a-thirst to do good. The language of his heart continually was, _My Father worketh hitherto, and I work_. My Lord _went about doing good_; and shall not I _tread in his steps? As |he| had opportunity_ therefore, if he could do no good of a higher kind, he fed the hungry, clothed the naked, helped the fatherless or stranger, visited and assisted them that were sick or in prison. He _gave all his goods to feed the poor_. He rejoiced to labour or to suffer for them; and wherein soever he might profit another, there especially to _deny himself_. He counted nothing too dear to part with for them, as well remembring the word of his Lord, _Insomuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me_.