10. When you begin to be leavened ⟨p. 174⟩with Pride, and think highly of your selves, and have good conceits of your own parts and performances, and would be noted, and taken for some-body among the godly, and you cannot endure to be overlooked, or past by: when you think mea•ly of other mens parts, and duties, in comparison of yours, and think your selves as wise as your Teachers, and begin to hear them as Judas magisterial spirit, and think you could do as well as this your selves; when you are finding fault with that which should nourish you, and in every Sermon you are most noting the defects, and think that this you could have mended; when you itch to be Teachers your selves, and think your selves fitter to preach then to learn, to rule then to be ruled, to answer then to ask for resolution; when you think so well of your selves, that the Church is not pure or good enough for your company, though Christ disowneth it not, and they force you not to sin; when you grow censorious; and aggravate the fault of others, and extenuate their graces, and can see a mote in another's eye, but will discern none of their Graces, if they be not as ⟨p. 175⟩high as mountains, and none can pass for Godly with you, but those of the most eminent magnitude; when you are itching after novelties in Religion, and setting your wisdom against the present, or ancient Church; and affecting singularity because you will be of no common way; when you cannot hear this Minister, nor that Minister, though the Ministers of Christ; and you are harping upon that, Come out from among them, and be ye separate; as if Christ had called you to come out of the Church, when he called you to come out of the company of Infidels: All this cries aloud for further Humiliation: You have a tympany that must be pricked, to let out the wind that puffs you up: If you be not for perdition, and to be forsaken, and given over to your selves, you must be fetched over again and humbled with a witness. When God hath turned your inside outward, and showed you that you are poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked, and that you are empty Nothings, who thought so well of your selves; he will then make you stoop to those that you despised, and think your selves unworthy of the Communion of those that ⟨p. 176⟩before you thought unworthy of your selves.
10. When you begin to be leavened ⟨p. 174⟩with Pride, and think highly of your selves, and have good conceits of your own parts and performances, and would be noted, and taken for some-body among the godly, and you cannot endure to be overlookt, or past by: when you think mea•ly of other mens parts, and dutys, in comparison of yours, and think your selves as wise as your Teachers, and begin to hear them as Judas magisterial spirit, and think you could do as well as this your selves; when you are finding fault with that which should nourish you, and in every Sermon you are most noting the defects, and think that this you could have mended; when you itch to be Teachers your selves, and think your selves fitter to preach then to learn, to rule then to be ruled, to answer then to ask for resolution; when you think so well of your selves, that the Church is not pure or good enough for your company, though Christ disowneth it not, and they force you not to sinne; when you grow censorious; and aggravate the faulte of others, and extenuate their graces, and can see a mote in another's eye, but will discern none of their Graces, if they be not as ⟨p. 175⟩high as mountains, and none can pass for Godly with you, but those of the most eminent magnitude; when you are itching after novelties in Religion, and setting your wisdom against the present, or ancient Church; and affecting singularity because you will be of no common way; when you cannot heare this Minister, nor that Minister, though the Ministers of Christ; and you are harping upon that, Come out from among them, and be yee separate; as if Christ had called you to come out of the Church, when he called you to come out of the company of Infidels: All this cries aloud for further Humiliation: You have a tympanie that must be prickt, to let out the wind that puffs you up: If you be not for perdition, and to be forsaken, and given over to your selves, you must be fecht over again and humbled with a witness. When God hath turned your inside outward, and shewed you that you are poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked, and that you are empty Nothings, who thought so well of your selves; he will then make you stoop to those that you despised, and think your selves unworthy of the Communion of those that ⟨p. 176⟩before you thought unworthy of your selves.
