A26892:1922
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.
20. Some have contracted some unhandsome customs in their speech or gestures which to rash censurers seem to come from Pride, though it be not so. By all these seemings the humble are judged1 by many to be Proud.
20. Some have contracted some unhansome customes in their speech or gestures which to rash censurers seem to come from Pride, though it be not so. By all these seemings the humble are judged1 by many to be Proud.
- 1Quod • magna•um ac proc••um congressu abstinuerit (Chrysanthius) alieniotque •uerit, non arrogantiae aut fastui tribuendum est, quin potius rusticitas quaedam aut simplicitas existimari debet in eo qui quid esset potestas ignorabat; ita vulgariter, & minime dissimulanter cum illis verba factitabat. E••a•ius in Ch••s•st.
§. 8. III. There are also many counterfeits of Humility, by which the Proud are taken to be Humble: As 1. An accusing of themselves and bewailing their vileness, through mere terror of Conscience as Judas, or the constraint of affliction as Pharaoh, or of the face of death. 2. A customary confessing of such sins in prayer, or in speech with others, which the best are used to confess, and the confessing of them is taken rather to be an honour than a disgrace. 3. A Religious observance of those Commandments and Doctrines of men, which the Apostle speaketh of,