Especially beautified

(William Plumer, "Vital Godliness: A Treatise
 on Experimental and Practical Piety" 1864)

"Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility." 1 Peter 5:5

Humility is lowliness of mind — the opposite of pride and 
arrogance. It belongs to the essence of experimental 
religion. A humble spirit is the opposite of a lofty one. 
True humility is an inward grace based on a view of our 
own guilt, weakness, vileness, and ignorance — as 
compared with the infinite excellence and glory of God. 

Humility is one of the most lovely of all the traits of a 
child of God. It is opposed to all ostentation. It hides 
the other graces of the Christian from the gaze of 
self-admiration. Its aim is not to be thought humble, 
but to be humble. The godly man loves to lie low — and 
cares not to have it known.

Humility will not disfigure, but adorn you. As Rebecca 
was not the less lovely, but the more so, when she took 
a veil and covered her beauty and all her jewels; so the
child of God is especially beautified when arrayed in 
humbleness of mind.