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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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Thirdly, The greatness of the sin of pride may be argued from the over-spreading of it; pride hath infected many mortally; and who can say his heart is free from this plague, though possibly it be not the plague (or special master sin) of his heart? ⟨p. 317⟩Pride is an Epidemical disease, all labour under this sickness, and this sickness hath got the mastery over many.
Thirdly, The greatness of the sin of pride may be argued from the over-spreading of it; pride hath infected many mortally; and who can say his heart is free from this plague, though possibly it be not the plague (or speciall master sin) of his heart? ⟨p. 317⟩Pride is an Epidemicall disease, all labour under this sicknesse, and this sicknesse hath got the mastery over many.
His fourth reason is that of the text and point; Pride is a great wickedness, because usually it infects great men. They that are great in power, great in gifts, great in learning, great in any thing, are sure to be assaulted if not blemished and blasted with this sin, insomuch that it had been better for many to have been fools, then learned, low then high, mean then great, poor then rich in this world. There is a temptation in power, in greatness, in riches, in knowledge, in gifts, in the best things, to make the mind swell, and the man that is stored with them proud. Pride is (as I may say) of a very high extraction, it was conceived in and borne by the now Apostate Angels, whose place, first estate (or principality, as we put in the Margin of the Epistle of Jude v. 6.) was aloft in heaven. Angels were the nearest servants and attendants upon God himself, who calleth heaven the habitation of his holiness, and of his glory; And surely the habitation which the Apostle Jude in the same verse saith the Angels left, (and he calls it their own, that is, that which was allotted and allowed them by God as their portion, this habitation, I say,) must needs be a very high and excellent one, as themselves by nature were in the highest classis or form of creatures. Now as pride began from and had its birth in these high and noble spirits (which gave one occasion (though it be as hellish a lust as any in hell) to call it Heavenly by Nation) so the higher men are (who at highest are but dust) the more doth pride haunt them, and insinuate it self to get a dwelling of seat in them,