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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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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.
But perhaps some will say, that [this language will make […] Proud: To tell men that they are the most Honourable person• in the world, is the way to make them the Proudest persons.]
But perhaps some will say, that [this language will make 〈…〉 Proud: To tell men that they are the most Honourable person• in the world, is the way to make them the Proudest persons.]
To which I give you a manifold answer that your Objection may not have the least pretence that it is unsatisfied.
1. Worldly Honours are of a more swelling nature then Heavenly Honours: and yet it would scarcely be taken well, if this conclusion should pass for currant, that the most Honourable are the most Proud. For then it would follow that none are so vile, so like the Devil, so unlike God: and so the Princes and nobles of the earth would become the most despicable persons in the world, and their very Honour it self would be their dishonour, and so no Honour. And if worldly Honours will not warrant you to conclude the persons to be most Proud, much less will the Heavenly Honour.