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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
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.
§. 87. Direct. 6. There is no more powerful means to take down Pride than to look seriously to God, and 1set your selves before his eyes, and consider how he loveth the humble, and abhorreth the Proud. One sight of God by a lively faith, would make you know with whom you have to do, and •each you to abhor your selves as vile. A glow-worm is not discerned in the sunshine, though it gli•ter in the dark. A glimpse of the Majesty of God, would make thee with Isaiah 6. cry out, W•e is me, for I am undone, a man of unclean lips, &c. and with the Israelites desire that Moses and not God might speak unto you lest you die. Men are Proud because they know not God, and look not to him, but to fellow sinners with whom they think they may be bold to compare themselves.
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Remember also that God is as it were engaged against the proud both in the holiness of his nature, and in honour: For a proud man sets up himself against him, and is such an Idol as God will either take down by grace, or spurn into the fire of destruction: And if he do appear before God among others in days and external exercises of humiliation, you may judge how much an abhorred person will be accepted. It is not to all that are clothed in sackcloth, but to the humble soul that God hath respect: Even to the •el• abhorring person, who judgeth himself unworthy to come among the people o• God, or to be door-keepers in his house, or to eat o• the crumbs of the children's bread; that1