A26892:2050
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.
§. 99. Direct. 18. Look to the humbling Judgements of God on your selves and others, and turn them 1all against your Pride. You will sure think it an unsuitable and unseasonable thing for the calamitous to be proud. Are you not oft complaining of one thing or other, upon your consciences, your bodies, your estates, your names, your relations or friends? and yet will you be proud while you complain? If the Judgements that have already befallen you, humble you not, it God love you, and will ⟨p. 250⟩[…] ⟨p. 251⟩[…] ⟨p. 252⟩save you, you may expect you should feel more; and the load should be increased, till it make you s•oop. O miserable obstinate sinners! that can groan with sickness, and yet be proud! and murmur under want, and yet be proud! and daily crossed by one or other, and yet be proud! yea, and tormented with fears of Gods displeasure, and yet be proud! Have not all the Wars, and blood, and ruins that have befallen us in these Kingdoms, been yet enough to take down pride? Many […]bling sights we have seen; and many humbling stripes we have felt; and yet are we not humbled? We have seen houses r•bb•d, and Towns fired, and the Country pillaged, and the blood of many thousands shed, and their carcasses scattered about the fields: and yet are we not humbled? If we were proud of our Riches, they have been taken from us: If proud of our buildings, they have been tu••ed into ruinous heaps: If we have been proud of our Government, and the Fame and Glory of our Country, we have seen how our sins have pulled down our Government, dishonoured our Rulers, and blemished our Glory, and turned it into shame: and yet are we not humbled? If you lived in a house infected with the Plague, and had buried Father, and Mother, and Brothers, and Sisters, and but a very few were left alive, expecting when their turn came next, if these few were not humbled, would you not think them blind and sottish persons? Do you yet look high, and contend for preeminence, and look for honour, and envy others, and desire to domineer, and have your will and way, and set out your selves in the neatest dress? Must you have sharper stripes, before you will be humbled? Must greater injuries, and violences, and losses, and fears, and reproaches be the means? Why will you choose so painful a remedy, by frustrating the easier? If it must be so, the […]meant shall shortly come yet nearer to thee: