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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.
4. Is it Beauty that you are proud of? I have told you what sickness and death will do to that before! When God rebuketh man for sin, he makes his beauty to consume as a moth: surely every man is vanity, Psal. 39. 11. Read Psal. 49. 12, 13, 14. And if your beauty would continue, how little good will it do you? and who but fools do look at the skin of a rational creature, when they would discern their worth? A fool, and a slave of lust and Satan, may be beautiful. A Sepulchre may be gilded that hath rottenness within: Will you choose the finest purse, or the fullest? Who but a child or fool will value his Book by the fineness of the cover, or gilding of the leaves, and not by the worth of the matter within? Absalom was beautiful, and what the better was he? 2 Sam. 14. 25. Prov. 31 30. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised.
4. Is it Beauty that you are proud of? I have told you what sickness and death will do to that before! When God rebuketh man for sin, he makes his beauty to consume as a moth: surely every man is vanity, Psal. 39. 11. Read Psal. 49. 12, 13, 14. And if your beauty would continue, how little good will it do you? and who but fools do look at the skin of a rational creature, when they would discern their worth? A fool, and a slave of lust and Satan, may be beautiful. A Sepulchre may be guilded that hath rottenness within: Will you choose the finest purse, or the fullest? Who but a child or fool will value his Book by the fineness of the cover, or guilding of the leaves, and not by the worth of the matter within? Absalom was beautiful, and what the better was he? 2 Sam. 14. 25. Prov. 31 30. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised.