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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.
10. Is it your grace and goodness or eminency in Religion that you are proud of? This is most absurd; when predominant Pride is a certain sign that you have no saving grace at all; and so are proud of what you have not: And if you have it, so far as you are proud of it you abuse it, contradict it and destroy it: For Pride is to Grace, what the Plague or Consumption is to Health. It is Novices that have least grace and knowledge that are aptest to be puffed up with Pride, and thereby to fall into the condemnation of the Devil, 1 Tim. 3. 6. that is, into the like punishment for the like sin. When the Pot boileth over, that which was in it is lost in the fire. Rise not too high in the esteem of your grace, lest you rise to the loss of it. Be not high-minded, but fear, Rom. 11. 20. When you think you stand, take heed lest you fall, 1 Cor. 10. 12.
10. Is it your grace and goodness or eminency in Religion that you are proud of? This is most absurd; when predominant Pride is a certain sign that you have no saving grace at all; and so are proud of what you have not: And if you have it, so far as you are proud of it you abuse it, contradict it and destroy it: For Pride is to Grace, what the Plague or Consumption is to Health. It is Novices that have least grace and knowledge that are aptest to be puft up with Pride, and thereby to fall into the condemnation of the Devil, 1 Tim. 3. 6. that is, into the like punishment for the like sin. When the Pot boyleth over, that which was in it is lost in the fire. Rise not too high in the esteem of your grace, lest you rise to the loss of it. Be not high-minded, but fear, Rom. 11. 20. When you think you stand, take heed lest you fall, 1 Cor. 10. 12.