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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.
§. 103. Direct. 22. Remember how Pride contradicteth it self by exposing you to the hatred or contempt 1of all. All men abhor that Pride in others which they cherish in themselves. A humble man is well thought of by all that know him; and a proud man is the mark of common obloquy. The rich disdain him: the poor envy him; and all hate him, and many deride him: This is his success.
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§. 104. Direct. 23. Look still unto that dismal end, which Pride doth tend unto. It threateneth Apostasy:1 If God forsake any one among you, and any of you forsake God, his Truth, and your Consciences, and be made as Lots Wife, a monument of his vengeance for a warning unto others, it will be the proud and self-conceited person. It maketh all the mercies of God, your duties and parts, and objectively your very graces, to be its food and fuel. It is a sign you are near some dreadful fall, or heavy judgement: For God hath given you this prognostic, Luke 14. 11. & 1. 51. Prov. 15. 25. & 16. 5. Isa. 2. 11, 12. An Ahab is safer when he humbleth himself▪ and an Hezekiah is falling when he is lifted up. They are the most hardened sinners, scorning reproof, and therefore ordinarily forsaken both by God and man, and left to their self-delusion till they perish.
§. 104. Direct. 23. Look still unto that dismal end, which Pride doth tend unto. It threatneth Apostasie: