A26892:1987
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.
§. 64. Sign 13. A proud man is apt to domineer with insolency, when he gets any advantage,1 and perceiveth himself on the higher ground. He saith as Pilate to those that are in his power,2 Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and power to release thee? Forgetting that they have no power at all against any, but what is given them from above. Victories and successes lift up fools, and make them look big and forget themselves, as if their shadows were longer than before: Servants got on Horseback will speak disdainfully of Princes that are on foot. David saith, The proud have had me in derision. If they get into places of power by preferment, they cannot bear it, but are puffed up and intoxicated, as if they were not the same men they were: They deal worse by their inferiors if they humour them not, than Balaam by his Ass: when they have made them speak, their insolency cannot bear it, whereas the humble remembereth how far he is equal with the lowest, and dealeth gently with his servants themselves, remembering that he also hath a Master in 3Heaven, Ephes. 6. 9.
§. 64. Sign 13. A proud man is apt to domineer with insolency, when he gets any advantage,1 and perceiveth himself on the higher ground. He saith as Pilate to those that are in his power,2 Knowest thou not that I have power to crucifie thee, and power to release thee? Forgetting that they have no power at all against any, but what is given them from above. Victories and successes lift up fools, and make them look big and forget themselves, as if their shadows were longer than before: Servants got on Horsback will speak disdainfully of Princes that are on foot. David saith, The proud have had me in derision. If they get into places of power by preferment, they cannot bear it, but are puffed up and intoxicated, as if they were not the same men they were: They deal worse by their inferiours if they humour them not, than Balaam by his Ass: when they have made them speak, their insolency cannot bear it, whereas the humble remembreth how far he is equal with the lowest, and dealeth gently with his servants themselves, remembring that he also hath a Master in