A26892:1909
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1 › Chapter 4 › Part 5: Directions against Pride, and for Humility.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7. If a man that understandeth any thing contrary to the judgement of another, cannot forsake it, 1and think or say as another would have him; especially if you contradict him in disputation; he will take it to be your pride, and overvaluing your own understanding, and being too tenacious of your own conceits. Erroneous men that in their Pride are over eager to have others of their mind, will call you Proud because you yield not to their pride. They think that the evidence is so clear on their side, that if you were not Proud you could not choose but think as they do.
- 1Siquid agere instituis, len•e progredere: in eo autem quod elege••s, firmiter persist. Bias in La•rt.Siquid agere instituis, len•e progredere: in eo autem quod elege••s, firmiter persiste. Bias in La•rt.
8. Some humble men are naturally of a warm and earnest manner of discourse; and their natural1 heat and eagerness of speech is frequently mis-judged to come from pride, till fuller acquaintance with their humble lives do rectify the mistake. It is written of Bishop Hooper the Martyr, that [those that visited him once, condemned him of over-austerity, they that repaired to him twice, only suspected him of the same; those that conversed with him constantly, not only acquitted him of all morosity, but commended him for sweetness of manners: So that his ill nature consisted in other mens little acquaintance with him] Tho. Fullers Church Hist. lib. 7. pag. 402. and Godwin in Glocest. Bishops. The same is true of very many worthy men.