A26892:1984
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.
§. 61. Sign 10. The proud are desirous of Precedency among men: To be saluted with the first;1 and taken by Great ones into the greatest favour, and to be set in the upper room, at Table, and at Church; and to take the better hand: He grudgeth at those that are set above him and preferred before him, unless they are much his Superiors: Or if he have the wit to avoid the disgrace of contending for such trifles, and showing the childishness of his Pride to others, yet he retaineth a2 displeasure at the heart. When the humble give precedency to others, and set themselves at the lower end.
§. 61. Sign 10. The proud are desirous of Precedency among men: To be saluted with the first;1 and taken by Great ones into the greatest favour, and to be set in the upper room, at Table, and at Church; and to take the better hand: He grudgeth at those that are set above him and preferred before him, unless they are much his Superiours: Or if he have the wit to avoid the disgrace of contending for such trifles, and shewing the childishness of his Pride to others, yet he retaineth a2 displeasure at the heart. When the humble give precedency to others, and set themselves at the lower end.
- 1Sign 10.
- 2Luke 14. 9, 10.
§. 62. Sign 11. A proud man expecteth that all the good that he doth be remembered, and that1