The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

2. Pride makes men conceited of their own Righteousness▪ proud men are wont to have an high opinion of their own things: they set an high rate, on their own excellencies, and so do men of their Righteousness; pride makes men unreasonable in their esteem of it, they magnify it beyond all bounds: pride hinders them from passing an unpartial judgment upon what they do and are: they think their hearts are a great deal better than they be: when Hazael was told what he should afterward do, he answers the Prophet, Is thy Servant a Dog that he should do this thing? 1 Kings 8.12, 13. they imagine that their corruptions are mortified, that they love God and Jesus Christ, Prov. 30.12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet not cleansed from ⟨p. 175⟩their filthiness: pride makes them take up a good opinion of their own hearts upon small appearances: and when they have only a few pangs of affection, presently they are conceited that they have sincere desires after holiness and faith: or at least that there is such an inclinableness to the ways of God, which will with diligence grow up to be love to God and his Ways.

2. Pride makes men conceited of their own Righteousness▪ proud men are wont to have an high opinion of their own things: they set an high rate, on their own excellencies, and so do men of their Righteousness; pride makes men unreasonable in their esteem of it, they magnifie it beyond all bounds: pride hinders them from passing an unpartial judgment upon what they do and are: they think their hearts are a great deal better than they be: when Hazael was told what he should afterward do, he answers the Prophet, Is thy Servant a Dog that he should do this thing? 1 Kings 8.12, 13. they imagine that their corruptions are mortifyed, that they love God and Jesus Christ, Prov. 30.12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet not cleansed from ⟨p. 175⟩