But almost every one to the rich, and the rich to one another.

Hence bowing is as much a species of flattery through the medium of the body, as the giving of undeserved titles through the medium of the tongue.
As honours of the world again the Quakers think them censurable, because all such honours were censured by Jesus Christ.

On the occasion, on which he exhorted his followers not to be like the Scribes and Pharisees, and to seek flattering titles, so as to be called Rabbi Rabbi of man, he exhorted them to avoid all ceremonious salutations, such as greetings in the market-places.

He couples the two different customs of flattering titles and salutations in the same sentence, and mentions them in the same breath.

And though the word "greetings" does not perhaps precisely mean those bowings and scrapings, which are used at the present day, yet it means, both according to its derivation and the nature of the Jewish customs, those outward personal actions or gestures, which were used as complimentary to the Jewish world.
With respect to the pulling off the hat the Quakers have an additional objection to this custom, quite distinct from the objections, that have been mentioned above.