A26892:1934
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.
§. 17. Sign 7. Pride maketh men set up their own Love and Mercy above the Love and Mercy of1 God. Augustine mentioneth a sort of Heretics called Misericordes; Merciful men: And Origen was led hereby into his errors. When they think of Hell fire and the number of the miserable, and the fewness of the saved, they consult with their ignorant compassion, and think that this is below the Love and Mercy which is in themselves, and that they would not thus use an enemy of their own; and therefore they censure the holy Scripture, and Pride inclineth them strongly to unbelief: while they forget the narrowness and darkness of their souls, and how unfit they are to censure God, and how many truths may be unseen of them, which would fully satisfy them if they knew them; and how quickly God will show them that which shall justify his Word and all his Works, and convince them of the folly and arrogancy of their unbelief and censures.
§. 17. Sign 7. Pride maketh men set up their own Love and Mercy above the Love and Mercy of1 God. Augustine mentioneth a sort of Hereticks called Misericordes; Merciful men: And Origen was led hereby into his errors. When they think of Hell fire and the number of the miserable, and the fewness of the saved, they consult with their ignorant compassion, and think that this is below the Love and Mercy which is in themselves, and that they would not thus use an enemy of their own; and therefore they censure the holy Scripture, and Pride inclineth them strongly to unbelief: while they forget the narrowness and darkness of their souls, and how unfit they are to censure God, and how many truths may be unseen of them, which would fully satisfie them if they knew them; and how quickly God will shew them that which shall justifie his Word and all his Works, and convince them of the folly and arrogancy of their unbelief and censures.
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