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Thus God hath tied a just punishment to this vice, that he which entertaineth the vice that he loveth, should not avoid the name which he abhorreth, but he shall be esteemed proud and called proud of all that know him; and many that know him not, shall point at him with their fingers in the streets, & say, there goes a proud fellow: which they pronounce of no vice else, but the drunkard, because these two bewray themselves.

Thus God hath tied a iust punishmēt to this vice, that he which entertaineth the vice that he loueth, should not auoid the name which he abhorreth, but he shall be esteemed proud and called proud of all that know him; and many that know him not, shall point at him with their fingers in the streetes, & say, there goes a proud fellow: which they pronounce of no vice els, but the drunkard, because these two bewray themselues.

Thus you see how the proud resist God: now you shall see how GOD resisteth the proud. They are so heady, that almost none dare resist them but God: I will resist them (saith God.) Therefore when he heard the ⟨p. 442⟩proud man say in the 14 of Isaiah, I will ascend up into heaven: he answereth himself, Thou shalt be brought down to the grave. This is he which resisteth the proud.¹ When Hamans wife heard her husband say, that Mordecai was against him; because he was an Israelite, she said that her husband should take the soil, and Mordecai should prevail. What if she had heard her husband say, that the Lord of Mordecai was against him? If the servant be so terrible, who dare encounter with his master?² God hated Esau, and how did Esau prosper? though he was the elder brother, yet he missed the birth-right; and though his father loved him,³ yet he could not bless him, because God hated him. God was wroth with the Angels, and drove them out of heaven;