all our actions, we ought, brethren, to be always on our guard, lest, as the prophet saith in the psalms, God should, at any time, behold us turned unto evil and become unprofitable, and though sparing us for the present, (because He is merciful and awaits our conversion to good,) should nevertheless, address us hereafter in those dreadful words: “These things hast thou done, and I was silent.”* The second degree of humility is, if a person be so divested of self-will, that instead of seeking the