A26892:1933
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 › Signs of the worst part of PRIDE against GOD.
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. Sign 6. Pride setteth up the wisdom of a foolish man against the infinite wisdom of God: It1 makes men presume to judge their Judge, and judge his Laws, before they understand them, and to2 quarrel with all that they find unsuitable to their own conceits; and say, How improbable is this or that? and how can these things be? He that cannot undo a pair of Tarrying Irons, or unriddle a Riddle till it be taught him, which afterwards appeareth plain, will question the truth of the Word of God about the most high unsearchable mysteries. Proud men think they could mend Gods Word, and they could better have ordered matters in the world, and for the Church, and for themselves, and for their friends, tha then providence of God hath done.
§. 16. Sign 6. Pride setteth up the wisdom of a foolish man against the infinite wisdom of God: It1 makes men presume to judge their Judge, and judge his Laws, before they understand them, and to2 quarrell with all that they find unsuitable to their own conceits; and say, How improbable is this or that? and how can these things be? He that cannot undo a pair of Tarrying Irons, or unriddle a Riddle till it be taught him, which afterwards appeareth plain, will question the truth of the Word of God about the most high unsearchable mysteries. Proud men think they could mend Gods Word, and they could better have ordered matters in the world, and for the Church, and for themselves, and for their friends, tha then providence of God hath done.
- 1Sign 6.
- 2La•rt. saith that Pythagoras first called himself a Philosopher, Nullum enim hominum, sed s•lum Deum esse sepiente• asserit: Antea [Greek or Hebrew] dicta, quae nu•c Philosophia: & qui hanc profitebantur [Greek or Hebrew] appellati: Quicunque ad summam animi virtutem exreverunt, hos nunc honestiore vocabulo, authore Pythagora Philosophos appellamus. pag. 7.