A26892:2024
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.
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§. 88. Direct. 7. Look to a humbled Christ to humble you. Can you be proud while you believe1 that your Saviour was clothed with flesh, and lived in meanness, and made himself of no reputation, and was despised and scorned and spit upon by sinners, and shamefully used and nailed as a malefactor to a cross? The very incarnation of Christ is a condescension and humiliation enough to pose both2 men and Angels, transcending all belief but such as God himself produceth by his supernatural testimony and spirit. And can Pride look a crucified Christ in the face, or stand before him? Did God take upon him the form of a servant, and must thou domineer and have the highest place? Had3 not Christ a place to lay his head on? and must thou needst have thy adorned well-furnished rooms? Must thou needs brave it out in the most fantastic fashion, instead of thy Saviours seamless coat? Doth he pray for his murderers? And must thou be revenged for a word or petty wrong? Is he patiently spit upon and buffeted? And art thou ready through proud impatience, to spit upon or bus••t others? Surely he that condemned sin in the flesh, condemned no sin more than Pride.
§. 88. Direct. 7. Look to a humbled Christ to humble you. Can you be proud while you believe1 that your Saviour was cloathed with flesh, and lived in meanness, and made himself of no reputation, and was despised and scorned and spit upon by sinners, and shamefully used and nailed as a malefactor to a cross? The very incarnation of Christ is a condescension and humiliation enough to pose both2 men and Angels, transcending all belief but such as God himself produceth by his supernatural testimony and spirit. And can Pride look a crucified Christ in the face, or stand before him? Did God take upon him the form of a servant, and must thou domineer and have the highest place? Had3