for he hath regarded the low estate of his servant: and future ages shall proclaim me blessed.

"blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he hath regarded and wrought a deliverance for his people:

saying, in a certain city there was a judge, who neither feared God, nor regarded man.

As to the case of celibacy, I have no positive instructions: yet my advice deserves to be regarded, as coming from one the divine favour has distinguished.

if zeal is to be regarded, I persecuted the church; if the integrity prescrib'd by the law, I am without reproach;

it was then, that those words of scripture were accomplished, "Abraham believed God, and he was regarded for it as a man of virtue, and was the favourite of God."