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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.
§. 100. Direct. 19. Look on the lamentable effects of Pride about you in the world, and that will help 1you to see the odiousness and pernicious nature of it. Do you not see how it set•eth the whole world on […]? •ow it rais•r Wars, and ruineth Kingdoms, and draweth out mens blood, and filleth the world with malice, and ha••ed, and cruelty […]nd injustice, and treasons, and rebellions, and destroyeth, mercy, truth and honesty, and all that is […] of God upon the mind of man! Whence is all the confusion, and calamity, all the c•nsoriousne••, revili•gs and cruelties, which we have seen, or felt, or heard of, but from Pride? What is it that hath trampled upon the Int••••st of Christ and his Gospel through the world, but pride? What else is it that hath burnt his Martyrs, and made havoc of his s••vants, and distracted and divided his Church with Schisms, and set up so many Sect-masters and Sects, and c•us•d them almost all to set against others, but this cursed unmortified Pride? He that hath seen but what Pride hath been doing in England in this age, and yet discerneth not its hatefulness and perniciousness, is strangely blind. Every proud man is a plague or burden to the place he liveth in: If he get high, he is a Nabal: a man can scarce speak to him: He thinks all under him are made but to serve his will and honour, as inferior creatures are made for man. If he be an i••••riour, he scorneth at the honour and government of his Superiors, and thinks they take too much upon them and that it is below him to obey. If he be rich, he thinks the poor mu[…] bow to him, as to[…] Golden Calf▪ or Nebuchadnezzars Golden Image: If he poor, he envieth the rich, and is impatient of the state that God hath set him in: If he be learned, he thinks himself an Oracle: •• unlearned, he despiseth the knowledge which he wanteth, and scorneth to be ta[…] What sta sover he is in, he is a very Salamander, that liveth in the fire; he troubleth House, a[…]own, and Coun, if his power be answerable to his heart: he is an unpolished stone, that will never lye even in any building; he is a natural enemy to quietness and peace.