A26892:1974
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 Pride in common converse.
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.
§. 53. Sign 1. Pride causeth subjects to be too quick in censuring the actions of their Governors, 1and too impatient of what they suffer from them, and apt to murmur at them, and rebel against them. It makes inferiors think themselves competent judges of those commands and actions of their superiors, the Reasons of which they never heard, nor can be fit to judge of, unless they were of their council. It makes them forget all the benefits of Government, and mind only the burdens and suffering part, and say as Corah, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the Congregation are holy every one 2of them and the Lord is among them. Wherefore then lift ye up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord?—Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk 3and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thy self altogether a Prince over us?—Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? Proud men are impatient, and aggravate their disappointments, and think they have reason and justice on their side.
§. 53. Sign 1. Pride causeth subjects to be too quick in censuring the actions of their Governors, 1and too impatient of what they suffer from them, and apt to murmur at them, and rebel against them. It makes inferiors think themselves competent judges of those commands and actions of their superiors, the Reasons of which they never heard, nor can be fit to judge of, unless they were of their council. It makes them forget all the benefits of Government, and mind only the burdens and suffering part, and say as Corah, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the Congregation are holy every one 2of them and the Lord is among them. Wherefore then lift ye up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord?—Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk 3and hony, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thy self alltogether a Prince over us?—Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? Proud men are impatient, and aggravate their disappointments, and think they have reason and justice on their side.