Wise. Yes,1 that I will: And first I will show you some symptoms of Pride of Heart. Pride of heart, is seen by outward things, as Pride of Body in general, is a sign of pride of heart; for all proud gestures of the body slow from Pride of heart:2 therefore Solomon saith; There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, ⟨p. 240⟩and their eye-lids are lifted up: And again;3 There is that exalteth their gate, their going. Now these lofty eyes,4 and this exalting of the gate, is a sign of a Proud heart: for both these actions come from the heart: for out of the heart comes Pride, in all the visible appearances of it.5 But more particularly:
1. Heart Pride is discovered by a stretched out Neck, and by mincing as they go. For the wicked, the Proud, have a proud Neck, a proud Foot, a proud Tongue, by which this their going is exalted. This is that which makes them look scornfully, speak ruggedly, and carry it huffingly among their Neighbours.
2. A proud heart, is a persecuting one: 6The wicked through his pride doth persecute the poor.
3. A prayerless man is a proud man.7
4. A contentions man is a proud man.8
5. The disdainful man is a proud man.9
6. The man that oppresses his neighbour is a proud man.10
⟨p. 241⟩7. He that hearkeneth not to Gods Word with reverence and fear,11 is a proud man.
8. And he that calls the proud happy,12 is,13 be sure, a proud man. All these are proud in heart, and this their pride of heart doth thus discover it self.
As to bodily *pride, it is discovered, that is, something of it, by all the particulars mentioned before; for though they are said to be symptoms of pride of heart, yet they are symptoms of that pride, by their showing of themselves in the Body. You know diseases that are within, are seen oft-times by outward and visible Signs, yet by them very signs even the outside is defiled also. So all those visible signs of heart pride, are signs of bodily pride also. But to come to more outward signs: The putting on of Gold,15 and Pearls,16 and costly array; the pleating of the hair, the following of fashions, the seeking by gestures to imitate the proud, either by speech, looks, dresses, goings, or other fools baubles, (of which at this time the world is full) all these, ⟨p. 242⟩and many more, are signs, as of a proud heart, so of bodily pride also.
But Mr.
Wise. Yes,1 that I will: And first I will shew you some symptoms of Pride of Heart. Pride of heart, is seen by outward things, as Pride of Body in general, is a sign of pride of heart; for all proud gestures of the body slow from Pride of heart:2 therefore Solomon saith; There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, ⟨p. 240⟩and their eye-lids are lifted up: And again;3 There is that exalteth their gate, their going. Now these lofty eyes,4 and this exalting of the gate, is a sign of a Proud heart: for both these actions come from the heart: for out of the heart comes Pride, in all the visible appearances of it.5 But more particularly:
1. Heart Pride is discovered by a stretched out Neck, and by mincing as they go. For the wicked, the Proud, have a proud Neck, a proud Foot, a proud Tongue, by which this their going is exalted. This is that which makes them look scornfully, speak ruggedly, and carry it huffingly among their Neighbours.
2. A proud heart, is a persecuting one: 6The wicked through his pride doth persecute the poor.
3. A prayerless man is a proud man.7
4. A contentions man is a proud man.8
5. The disdainful man is a proud man.9
6. The man that oppresses his neighbour is a proud man.10
⟨p. 241⟩7. He that hearkeneth not to Gods Word with reverence and fear,11 is a proud man.
8. And he that calls the proud happy,12
- 1Signs of a proud man in general.Signes of a proud man in general.
- 2Pro. 32. 13.
- 3Pro. 17. 19.
- 4Mar. 7.
- 5In particular.
- 6Psal. 1•. 2.
- 7Psal. 10. 4.
- 8Pro. 1•. 10.
- 9Psal. 11. 51.
- 10Ver. 122.
- 11Jer. 13. 17.
- 12Chap. 43. 2.
- 13Mal. 3. 15.
- *Of outward pride.
- 151 Tim. 2. 1.
- 161 Pet. 3. 3, 4, 5.
