A26892:1968
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 › The Signs of Pride in and about Religious duties.
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§. 48. Sign 6. A Proud man is more troubled when he perceiveth that he is undervalued and misseth1 of the honour which he sought, than that his preaching succeeds not for the good of souls, or his2 prayers prevail not for their spiritual good: Every man is most troubled for missing that which is his end: To do good and get good is the end of the sincere, and this he looks after, and rejoiceth if he obtain it, and is troubled if he miss it: To seem good, and wise, and able is the Proud mans end: And if the people honour him, it puffs him up with gladness, as if he were a happy man: And if they slight him or despise him, he is cast down, or cast into some turbulent passion, and falls a hating or wrangling with them that deny him the honour he expects, as if they did him a heinous wrong: As if a Physician should want both skill and care to cure his patients; but hateth and revileth them, because they prefer another that is abler, and will not die to secure his honour, or magnify his skill for killing their friends. The Proud mans honour is his Life and Idol.
§. 48. Sign 6. A Proud man is more troubled when he perceiveth that he is undervalued and misseth1 of the honour which he sought, than that his preaching succeeds not for the good of souls, or his2 prayers prevail not for their spiritual good: Every man is most troubled for missing that which is his end: To do good and get good is the end of the sincere, and this he looks after, and rejoyceth if he obtain it, and is troubled if he miss it: To seem good, and wise, and able is the Proud mans end: And if the people honour him, it puffs him up with gladness, as if he were a happy man: And if they slight him or despise him, he is cast down, or cast into some turbulent passion, and falls a hating or wrangling with them that deny him the honour he expects, as if they did him a hainous wrong: As if a Physicion should want both skill and care to cure his patients; but hateth and revileth them, because they prefer another that is abler, and will not die to secure his honour, or magnifie his skill for killing their friends. The Proud mans honour is his Life and Idol.