A26892:2012
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.
2. A proud man is a tormentor of himself. Setting his mind on the Thoughts of men, and desiring more of their esteem than he can attain, and that which is unsatisfying vanity when he hath obtained it: He is still under fruitless vexatious desires, and frequent disappointments: Every thing that he s••th, and every word almost that he heareth, or every complement omitted can disturb his peace, and break his sleep, and cast him into a fever of passion or revenge: This wind that swelleth him, is running up and down, and disquieting him in every part: Who would have such a fire in his breast, that will not suffer him to be quiet?
2. A proud man is a tormenter of himself. Setting his mind on the Thoughts of men, and desiring more of their esteem than he can attain, and that which is unsatisfying vanity when he hath obtained it: He is still under fruitless v•xatious desires, and frequent disappointments: Every thing that he s••th, and every word allmost that he heareth, or every complement omitted can disturb his peace, and break his sleep, and cast him into a feaver of passion or revenge: This wind that swelleth him, is running up and down, and disquieting him in every part: Who would have such a fire in his breast, that will not suffer him to be quiet?
3. Pride bringeth sufferings, and then maketh them seem intolerable: It makes the sin•er more vex and gall his mind with striving and impatient aggravating his afflictions, than the suffering o• it self would ever do.
3. Pride bringeth sufferings, and then maketh them seem intollerable: It makes the sin•er more vex and gall his mind with striving and impatient aggravating his afflictions, than the suffering o• it self would ever do.