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A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord
A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord, by the restitution of their primitive purity, simplicity, and charity, II. how that restitution is like to be made, (if ever) and what shall befall them thence-forth unto the end, in that golden-age of love / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Thomas Simmons, 1680
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.
12. As no Man is moved against his own Errors, by the Reasons which he knoweth not; so Pride, and Self-love, and Partiality thence arising, incline all Men naturally to be over-valuers of their own Understandings, and so over-confident of all their own conceptions, and over-stiff in defending all their Errors, As Pride and selfishness are the first-born of Satan, and the Root of all positive Evil in Man's Soul; so a Man is more Naturally Proud of that which is the Honour of a Man, which is his Understanding and Goodness, than of that which is common to a Beast (as Strength, Beauty, Ornaments, &c.) Therefore Pride of Understanding and Goodness oft Live, when sordid Apparel telleth you that childish Pride of Ornaments is Dead. And this Pride maketh it very difficult, to the most Ignorant and Erroneous, to know their Ignorance and Error, or so much as to suspect their own Understandings.
12. As no Man is moved against his own Errours, by the Reasons which he knoweth not; so Pride, and Self-love, and Partiality thence arising, incline all Men naturally to be over-valuers of their own Understandings, and so over-confident of all their own conceptions, and over-stiff in defending all their Errours, As Pride and selfishness are the first-born of Satan, and the Root of all positive Evil in Man's Soul; so a Man is more Naturally Proud of that which is the Honour of a Man, which is his Understanding and Goodness, than of that which is common to a Beast (as Strength, Beauty, Ornaments, &c.) Therefore Pride of Understanding and Goodness oft Live, when sordid Apparel telleth you that childish Pride of Ornaments is Dead. And this Pride maketh it very difficult, to the most Ignorant and Erronious, to know their Ignorance and Errour, or so much as to suspect their own Understandings.
13. He that seeth but few things, seeth not much to make him doubt, and seeth not the difficulties which should check his Confidence, and stiffness in his way.