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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
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Part 1 › Chapter 4 › Part 5 › Signs of Pride in common converse.
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§. 85. 3. As to the misery which they bring on themselves and others, 1. The greatest is that they forsake God and are in danger to be forsaken by him: For God abhorreth the Proud, and beholdeth them as afar off. So far as you are Proud your are hated by him, and have no acceptance or communion with him. Pride is the highway to utter apostasy. It blindeth the mind: It maketh men confident in ⟨p. 246⟩their own conceits; and venturous upon any new opinion; and ready to quarrel with the word of God before they understand it: When any thing seems hard to them, they presently suspect the truth of the matter, when they should suspect their dark unfurnished minds. Mark those that are Proud in any Town, or any company of professors of piety, and if any infection of heresy or infidelity come into that place, these are the men that will soonest catch it. Mark those that have turned from1 Truth or Godliness, and see whether they be not such as were proud and superficial in Religion before. But God giveth Grace, and more Grace to the humble: He dwelleth with them, and delighteth in them.
§. 85. 3. As to the misery which they bring on themselves and others, 1. The greatest is that they forsake God and are in danger to be forsaken by him: For God abhorreth the Proud, and beholdeth them as afar off. So far as you are Proud your are hated by him, and have no acceptance or communion with him. Pride is the highway to utter appostacie. It blindeth the mind: It maketh men confident in ⟨p. 246⟩their own conceits; and venturous upon any new opinion; and ready to quarrel with the word of God before they understand it: When any thing seems hard to them, they presently suspect the truth of the matter, when they should suspect their dark unfurnished minds. Mark those that are Pr•ud in any Town, or any company of professors of piety, and if any infection of heresie or infidelity come into that place, these are the men that will soonest catch it. Mark those that have turned from1 Truth or Godliness, and see whether they be not such as were proud and superficial in Religion before. But God giveth Grace, and more Grace to the humble: He dwelleth with them, and delighteth in them.