cast down: who never despised, or envied man, nor ever feared man: who never was over merry or over sad: who being reviled, reviled not again; but was dumb as a lamb before the shearers. Direct. XVII. ‘Keep as far from all occasions of your passions as other duties will allow you: and contrive your affairs and occasions into as great an opposition as may be to the temptation.’ Run not into temptation, if you would be delivered from evil. Much might be done by a willing, prudent man, by the very ordering