A26892:1935
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.
§. 18. Sign 8. Pride makes men pretend to be more Just than God: and to think that they could1 more justly Govern the world; and to censure Gods threatenings, and the sufferings of the good, and the prosperity of the wicked, as things so unjust, as that they thereby incline to atheism. So James and John would be more just than Christ, and call down fire on the rejecters of the Gospel: And the Prodigals Brother, Luke 15. repined at his Fathers lenity.
§. 18. Sign 8. Pride makes men pretend to be more Just than God: and to think that they could1 more justly Govern the world; and to censure Gods threatnings, and the sufferings of the good, and the prosperity of the wicked, as things so unjust, as that they thereby incline to atheism. So Iames and Iohn would be more just than Christ, and call down fire on the rejecters of the Gospel: And the Prodigals Brother, Luke 15. repined at his Fathers lenity.
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§. 19. Sign 9. Pride maketh men sleight the authority and commands of God, and despise his1 messengers, and choose to be ruled by their own conceits, and lusts, and interests; when the humble2 tremble at his Word, and readily obey it. Isa. 57. 15. Neh. 9. 16. 29