A26892:1918
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.
16. Many of the poor do mistake their Superiors to be proud, if their apparel be not in fashion and value almost like their own, though it be sober and agreeable to their rank.
16. Many of the poor do mistake their Superiours to be proud, if their apparel be not in fashion and value almost like their own, though it be sober and agreeable to their rank.
17. Some are of a more rustic or careless disposition, unfit for complement; and some are taken up with serious studies and employments, so contrary to complement, that they have neither1 time nor mind for the observance of the humours of complemental persons; who because they expect it, and think they are neglected, do usually accuse such men of Pride.
17. Some are of a more rustick or careless disposition, unfit for complement; and some are taken up with serious studies and employments, so contrary to complement, that they have neither1 time nor mind for the observance of the humours of complemental persons; who because they expect it, and think they are neglected, do usually accuse such men of Pride.
- 1•••• a incessu ado gestuo•u & compo•i••s, ut vel ••nde sup•rbissimi animi contrarerit infamiam. Callimach. Exper. de Attil. p. 341.•••• a incessu ad•o gestuou & compois, ut vel nde suprbissimi animi contrarerit infamiam. Callimach. Exper. de Attil. p. 341.