A26892:1986
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.
§. 63. Sign 12. No man is taken for so great a friend to the proud as their admirers: whatever1 else they be, they love those men best, that highliest esteem them: The faults of such they can extenuate and easily forgive: Let them be Drunkards, or Whoremongers, or Swearers, or otherwise ungodly, the proud man loveth them according to the measure of their honouring him: If you would have his favour, let him hear that you have magnified him behind his back, and that you honour him above all other men. But if the holiest servant of God think meanly of him, and speak of him but as he is; especially if he think they are disesteemers of him, or are against his interest and honour, all their wisdom and holiness will not reconcile him to them, if they were as wise or good as Peter or Paul: It signifieth nothing to him that they are honourers of God, if he think they be not honourers of him. Nay, he will not believe or acknowledge their goodness, but take all for hypocrisy, if they suit not with his interest or honour: and all because he is an Idol to himself.
§. 63. Sign 12. No man is taken for so great a friend to the proud as their admirers: whatever1 else they be, they love those men best, that highliest esteem them: The faults of such they can extenuate and easily forgive: Let them be Drunkards, or Whoremongers, or Swearers, or otherwise ungodly, the proud man loveth them according to the measure of their honouring him: If you would have his favour, let him hear that you have magnified him behind his back, and that you honour him above all other men. But if the holiest servant of God think meanly of him, and speak of him but as he is; especially if he think they are disesteemers of him, or are against his interest and honor, all their wisdom and holiness will not reconcile him to them, if they were as wise or good as Peter or Paul: It signifieth nothing to him that they are honourers of God, if he think they be not honourers of him. Nay, he will not believe or acknowledge their goodness, but take all for hypocrisie, if they suit not with his interest or honour: and all because he is an Idol to himself.
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