the inward law, which agreed with the outward (1 Tim. ii. 9; 1 Pet.
iii. 3; 1 Tim. vi. 8; James i. 21), 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 honour
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 proper emblem of
that divine honour 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