A26892:1953
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 next Degrees of Pride as against God.
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§. 35. Sign. 5. A Proud heart hath so little experimental sense of the great accusations which Scripture1 bringeth against the corrupted heart of man, that it is easily drawn into any Heresy which denieth2 them: As about our Original sin and misery and need of a Saviour: about the desperate wickedness of the heart, and mans insufficiency and impotency to good, yea averseness from it: Whereas humble men are better acquainted with the sin within them, that beareth witness to all these truths.
§. 35. Sign. 5. A Proud heart hath so little experimental sense of the great accusations which Scripture1 bringeth against the corrupted heart of man, that it is easily drawn into any Heresie which denieth2 them: As about our Original sin and misery and need of a Saviour: about the desperate wickedness of the heart, and mans insufficiency and impotencie to good, yea averseness from it: Whereas humble men are better acquainted with the sin within them, that beareth witness to all these truths.
- 1Sign 5.
- 2Rom 5. 12, 17, 18, 19 John 3. 3, 5, 8.
§. 36. Sign 6. The Proud are insensible of the need and reason of all that diligence to mortify the1 flesh, and subdue corruptions, and watch the heart, and walk with God in holiness of life, which God requireth: He saith what need all this ado: He feeleth not the need of it, and therefore thinks its more ado than needs. But the humble soul is sensible of that within him that requireth it and justifieth the strictest ways of God: The Rich think they have no need to labour; but labour is a poor mans life and maintenance: If he miss it a day, he feeleth the want of it the next.