A26892:1981
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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§. 58. Sign 7. Pride maketh men wonderful Partial in judging of their own Virtues and Vices in1 comparison of other mens. When the humble are complaining of their weaknesses and sinfulness, and have much ado to believe that they are any thing, or to discern the sincerity of their grace; and think their prayers are as no prayers, and their duties so bad that God will not regard them, the Proud think well of all they do, and are little troubled at their greater wants. They easily see another mans failings; but the very same or worse, they justify in themselves. Their own passions, their own over-reachings or injurious dealings, their own ill words, are smoothed over as harmless things, when other mens are aggravated as intolerable crimes: Another is judged by them unfit for humane societies, for less than that which they cannot endure to be themselves reproved for; and will hardly be convinced that it is any fault: So blind is Pride about themselves.
§. 58. Sign 7. Pride maketh men wonderful Partial in judging of their own Vertues and Vices in1 comparison of other mens. When the humble are complaining of their weaknesses and sinfulness, and have much ado to believe that they are any thing, or to discern the sincerity of their grace; and think their prayers are as no prayers, and their duties so bad that God will not regard them, the Proud think well of all they do, and are little troubled at their greater wants. They easily see another mans failings; but the very same or worse, they justifie in themselves. Their own passions, their own over-reachings or injurious dealings, their own ill words, are smoothed over as harmless things, when other mens are aggravated as intolerable crimes: Another is judged by them unfit for humane societies, for less than that which they cannot endure to be themselves reproved for; and will hardly be convinced that it is any fault: So blind is Pride about themselves.
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