A26892:1957
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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§. 39. Sign 9. Proud men are always impatient in their afflictions: If they have a stoutness or stupidity, 1yet they have not Christian patience: They take it as if God used them hardly or did them wrong. But the humble know that they deserve much worse, and that the mercy that is left them is contrary to their desert: And therefore say with the humbled Church, Mic. 7. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him: Lam. 3. 22. [It is because his compassions fail not that we are not consumed].
§. 39. Sign 9. Proud men are allways impatient in their afflictions: If they have a stoutness or stupidity, 1yet they have not Christian patience: They take it as if God used them hardly or did them wrong. But the humble know that they deserve much worse, and that the mercy that is left them is contrary to their desert: And therefore say with the humbled Church, Mic. 7. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him: Lam. 3. 22. [It is because his compassions fail not that we are not consumed].
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§. 40. Sign 10. Proud men are fearless of temptations, and confident of their strength and the goodness1 of their hearts: They dare live among snares, in pomp and pleasure, faring deliciously every day; among plays, and gaming, and lascivious company and discourse, and fear no hurt; their Pride making them insensible of their danger, and what tinder and gunpowder is in their natures, for every spark of temptation to catch fire in. But the humble are always suspicious of themselves, and know their danger, and avoid the snare.