Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

10. One proud man is conceited of what he doth, because it is his own way; and another proud man is conceited of what he doth, because it is his own way, and so men draw divers ways, and the public cause of God and his people must give way to their conceitness. Pride makes a man drunk with his own conceits, Hab. 2. 5. The proud man is as he that transgresseth by wine; and Drunkards you know are quarrelsome. Wonder not at an absurd thing in a proud man, for pride makes him drunk. Prov. 13. 10. Proud men who cause contention,¹ are opposed to the well advised, But with the well advised (cum consultis) is wisdom. The Sept. reads it, The wise are such at know themselves, but the proud do not.

10. One proud man is conceited of what he doth, because it is his own way; and another proud man is conceited of what he doth, because it is his own way, and so men draw divers ways, and the publique cause of God and his people must give way to their conceitness. Pride makes a man drunk with his own conceits, Hab. 2. 5. The proud man is as he that transgresseth by wine; and Drunkards you know are quarrelsome. Wonder not at an absurd thing in a proud man, for pride makes him drunk. Prov. 13. 10. Proud men who cause contention,¹ are opposed to the well advised, But with the well advised (cum consultis) is wisdome. The Sept. reads it, The wise are such at know themselves, but the proud do not.

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