A26892:1977
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.
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§. 55. Sign 4. If there be any place of office, honour or preferment void, a proud man thinks1 that he is the fittest for it, and if he seek it, he taketh it for an injury if another be preferred before him as more deserving: And though they that had a hand in putting him by, and preferring another, did it never so judiciously, and impartially, and for the common good, without any respect to any friend or interest of their own, yet all this will not satisfy the Proud, who knoweth no Reason or Law but selfishness, but he will bear a grudge to men for the most righteous necessary action: What ignorant men and impious have we known displeased, because they were not thought worthy to be Teachers in the Church? or because a people that knew the worth of their souls, had the wit and conscience to prefer a worthier man before them! What worthless men (in Corporations and elsewhere) have we seen displeased, because they were not chosen to be Governors? So unreasonable a sin is Pride.
§. 55. Sign 4. If there be any place of office, honour or preferment void, a proud man thinks1 that he is the fittest for it, and if he seek it, he taketh it for an injury if another be preferred before him as more deserving: And though they that had a hand in putting him by, and preferring another, did it never so judiciously, and impartially, and for the common good, without any respect to any friend or interest of their own, yet all this will not satisfie the Proud, who knoweth no Reason or Law but selfishness, but he will bear a grudge to men for the most righteous necessary action: What ignorant men and impious have we known displeased, because they were not thought worthy to be Teachers in the Church? or because a people that knew the worth of their souls, had the wit and conscience to prefer a worthier man before them! What worthless men (in Corporations and elsewhere) have we seen displeased, because they were not chosen to be Governours? So unreasonable a sin is Pride.
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