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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.
It shall either strip thee of the rest, or cover the• with shame, or lay thee in pain upon thy Couch, where thy head shall ache, and thy heart be sick and thy b•d• weary, and thou shalt pant and gasp for breath: Wilt thou then be proud, and c•••••l for honour? When thou expectest hourly when thy proud and guilty soul, shall be turned out of t•y body and appear before the Holy God? When the Bell is ready to toll for thee, and thy Winding-•heet to be fetched out, and thy Coffin prepared, and the Bier to be fetched to carry thee to t•• Grave, and leave thee in the dark with worms and rottenness▪ Wilt thou then be proud! Where then •re your high looks, and lofty minds, and splendid ornaments, and honours! Then will you be climbing into higher rooms, and seeking to be revenged on those that did eclipse your honour? Saith David even of Princes and all the sons of men, Psal. 146. 3, 4. His breath goeth forth: he returneth to his earth▪ in that very day his thoughts perish.
It shall either strip thee of the rest, or cover the• with shame, or lay thee in pain upon thy Couch, where thy head shall ake, and thy heart be sick and thy b•d• wea•y, and thou shalt pant and gasp for breath: Wilt thou then be proud, and c•••••l for honour? When thou expectest hourly when thy proud and guilty soul, shall be turned out of t•y body and appear before the Holy God? When the Bell is ready to toll for thee, and thy Winding-•heet to be f•tcht out, and thy Coffin prepared, and the Bier to be fetcht to carry thee to t Grave, and leave thee in the dark with worms and rottenness Wilt thou then be proud! Where then re your high looks, and lofty minds, and splendid ornaments, and honours! Then will you be climbing into higher rooms, and seeking to be revenged on those that did eclipse your honour? Saith David even of Princes and all the sons of men,