d a civil education, been preserved out of those
grosser evils, yet I had many other evils to put away and to cease
from; some of which were not by the world, which lies in wickedness (I
John v. 19), accounted evils, but by the light of Christ were made
manifest to me to be evils, and as such condemned in me.

"As particularly those fruits and effects of pride that discover
themselves in the vanity and superfluity of apparel; which I took too
much delight in. This evil of my doings I was required to put away and
cease from; and judgment lay upon me till I did so.

"I took off from my apparel those unnecessary trimmings of lace,
ribbons, and useless buttons, which had no real service, but were set
on only for that which was by mistake called ornament; and I ceased to
wear rings.

"Again, the giving of flattering titles to men between whom and me
there was not any relation to which such titles could be pretended to
belong. This was an evil I had been much addicted to, and was
accounted a ready artist in; therefore this evil also was I required to
put away and cease from. So that thenceforward I durst not say, Sir,
Master, My Lord, Madam (or My Dame); or say Your Servant to any one to
whom I did not stand in the real relation of a servant, which I had
never done to any.

"Again, respect of persons, in uncovering the head and bowing the knee
or body in salutation, was a practice I had been much in the use of;
and this, being one of the vain customs of the world, introduced by the
spirit of the world, instead of the true honor which this is a false
representation of, and used in deceit as a token of respect by persons
one to another, who bear no real respect one to another; and besides
this, being a type and a proper emblem of that divine honor which all
ought to pay to Almighty God, and which all of all sorts, who take upon
them the Christian name, appear in when they offer their prayers to
him, and therefore should not be given to men;--I found this to be one
of those evils which I had been too long doing; therefore I was now
required to put it away and cease from it.

"Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number
to a single person, YOU to one, instead of THOU, contrary to the pure,
plain, and single language of truth, THOU to one, and YOU to more than
one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well
as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, f