1. Such men as magnify themselves by their duties and frames: they count highly of themselves, because of what they do; pride is the very spirit of self-righteousness. The self-righteous man sets a great price upon what he does: he loves to be thinking upon what he has done, how his heart melted in such a duty, how his affections were drawn out and enlarged in such a prayer, what he has done and suffered in the cause of God: he loves to chew over duties again, as things that do commend him to God, while another man is magnifying free-grace, and the Righteousness of Christ, the self-righteous man is idolizing his own services, falls in love with his own beauty: is taken with his own carriage, and thinks that God and man should be taken with him: he thinks his works do ingratiate him with God: and draw the heart of God towards him, so the Pharisee, Luke 18.12. I fast twice in the week, and give tithes of all that I possess: he minds God of it, what a choice man he was, and thinks that God has not many such servants as himself: he counts his own righteousness his riches, Rev: 3:17. he is rich in prayers, rich in mournings, rich in duties of Religion, and of charity: he is not brought to be poor in ⟨p. 164⟩spirit, he don't see himself without money and without price, but has a considerable estate of his own to live upon: he thinks that by his duties he gains something towards the paying for salvation, Phil. 3.7. he places his confidence in those things, and glories in them; as a rich man boasts of his wealth, so he boasts of his righteousness: and despises other men, as the Pharisee, Luk. 18, 11. I am not as other men, or like this Publican: whereas the spirit of a Saint is to glory in the righteousness and sufferings of Christ, Gal. 6.14. God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of Jesus Christ,
1. Such men as magnifie themselves by their duties and frames: they count highly of themselves, because of what they do; pride is the very spirit of self-righteousness. The self-righteous man sets a great price upon what he does: he loves to be thinking upon what he has done, how his heart melted in such a duty, how his affections were drawn out and enlarged in such a prayer, what he has done and suffered in the cause of God: he loves to chew over duties again, as things that do commend him to God, while another man is magnifying free-grace, and the Righteousness of Christ, the self-righteous man is idolizing his own services, falls in love with his own beauty: is taken with his own carriage, and thinks that God and man should be taken with him: he thinks his works do ingratiate him with God: and draw the heart of God towards him, so the Pharisee, Luke 18.12. I fast twice in the week, and give tithes of all that I possess: he minds God of it, what a choice man he was, and thinks that God has not many such servants as himself: he counts his own righteousness his riches, Rev: 3:17. he is rich in prayers, rich in mournings, rich in duties of Religion, and of charity: he is not brought to be poor in ⟨p. 164⟩spirit, he don't see himself without money and without price, but has a considerable estate of his own to live upon: he thinks that by his duties he gains somthing towards the paying for salvation, Phil. 3.7. he places his confidence in those things, and glories in them; as a rich man boasts of his wealth, so he boasts of his righteousness: and despises other men, as the Pharisee, Luk. 18, 11. I am not as other men, or like this Publican: whereas the spirit of a Saint is to glory in the righteousness and sufferings of Christ, Gal. 6.14. God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of Jesus Christ,
