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Now because men are ready to think that there is not in them such store of pride, as that they greatly need Gods medicines to cure them of it, or if they do see their pride, they are ready to sit down discouraged, as if it were unpossible to get the better of it, therefore will it not be amiss to set down some fruits and effects of pride, whereby it may be discerned, and some remedies and helps against it, by virtue whereof it may be cured.

Now because men are readie to thinke that there is not in them such store of pride, as that they greatly neede Gods medicines to cure them of it, or if they doe see their pride, they are readie to sit downe discouraged, as if it were vnpossible to get the better of it, therefore will it not be amisse to set downe some fruits and effects of pride, whereby it may be discerned, and some remedies and helpes against it, by vertue whereof it may be cured.

Concerning the first point, ¹it were an infinite work to reckon up all the effects of pride, and therefore I will only touch some few of the principal, §1whereby we may be led to a sight of the rest: ²And the first of them shall be that whereof Solomon speaketh, saying, Only by pride doeth man make contention: many there are that do ignorantly imagine they were never proud in all their life; but let them consider better of the matter; did they never brawl nor contend with any in all their life? if they did, certain it is that they were proud: for look how much contention there is, so much pride there is in every man. Which may be an evident argument to prove that this sin doeth greatly sway every where: for if we look into most families, and even into those of the purest sort (who think themselves most free ⟨p. 25⟩