Pride also there is in the outward carriage, behaviour and Gesture, which is odious for Christians to be tainted with; and this pride is discovered by mincing words, a made carriage, and an affecting the toys and baubles that Satan and every light-headed fool bringeth into the world. As God speaketh of the Daughters of Zion, They walk with stretched-out necks, wanton eyes, mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet, Isa. 3. ⟨p. 107⟩16. A very unhandsome carriage for a people that profess Godliness, and that use to come before God to confess their sins, and to bemoan themselves for what they have done: How can a sense of thy own baseness of the vileness of thy heart, and of the holiness of God, stand with such a carriage? dost thou see the vileness of thy heart, the fruit of sin? and art thou afflicted with that disagreement that is between God and thy heart, that layest the reins on the neck of thy lusts, and letest them run whither they will? Be not deceived; Pride ariseth from ignorance of these things, 1 Tim. 6. 3, 4. A sense of my vileness, of what I have deserved, and of what continually in my heart opposeth God, cannot stand with a foolish, light and wanton carriage: thou wilt then see, there is other things to mind than to imitate the Butter-fly: alas, all these kind of things, are but a painting the Devil, and a setting a carnal gloss upon a Castle of his; thou art but making gay the spider; is thy heart ever the sounder for thy fine gate, thy mincing words, ⟨p. 108⟩and thy lofty looks? nay, doth not this argue, that thy heart is a rotten▪ cankered, and besotted heart? Oh! that God would but let thee see a little of thy own inside, as thou hast others to behold thy outside: thou painted Sepulchre; thou whited Wall, will these things be found virtues in the day of God? or, is this the way that thou takest to mortify sin? A high look, a proud heart, and the ploughing of the wicked, is sin, Prov. 21. 4. Pride is the ring-leader of the seven abominations that the Wise man nameth, Prov. 6. 16, 17. and is that above all, that causeth to fall into the condemnation of the Devil, 1 Tim. 3. 6.
Pride also there is in the outward carriage, behaviour and Gesture, which is odious for Christians to be tainted with; and this pride is discovered by mincing words, a made carriage, and an affecting the toyes and baubles that Satan and every light-headed fool bringeth into the world. As God speaketh of the Daughters of Zion, They walk with stretched-out necks, wanton eyes, mincing as they go, and making a tinckling with their feet, Isa. 3. ⟨p. 107⟩16. A very unhansome carriage for a people that profess Godliness, and that use to come before God to confess their sins, and to bemove themselves for what they have done: How can a sence of thy own baseness of the vileness of thy heart, and of the holiness of God, stand with such a carriage? dost thou see the vileness of thy heart, the fruit of sin? and art thou afflicted with that disagreement that is between God and thy heart, that layest the reins on the neck of thy lusts, and letest them run whither they will? Be not deceived; Pride ariseth from ignorance of these things, 1 Tim. 6. 3, 4. A sense of my vileness, of what I have deserved, and of what continually in my heart opposeth God, cannot stand with a foolish, light and wanton carriage: thou wilt then see, there is other things to mind than to imitate the Butter-fly: alas, all these kind of things, are but a painting the Devil, and a setting a carnal gloss upon a Castle of his; thou art but making gay the spider; is thy heart ever the sounder for thy fine gate, thy mincing words, ⟨p. 108⟩and thy lofty looks? nay, doth not this argue, that thy heart is a rotten▪ cankered, and besotted heart? Oh! that God would but let thee see a little of thy own inside, as thou hast others to behold thy outside: thou painted Sepulchre; thou whited Wall, will these things be found vertues in the day of God? or, is this the way that thou takest to mortifie sin? A high look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin, Prov. 21. 4. Pride is the ring-leader of the seven abominations that the Wise man nameth, Prov. 6. 16, 17. and is that above all, that causeth to fall into the condemnation of the Devil, 1 Tim. 3. 6
