The First of our sin• was founded in a cursed Pride, & the most of our Sins are tainted with it. The first sin of Adam had Pride for a main ingredient of it. It was propounded unto him, in Gen. 3.5. Ye shall be as Gods, Honour and Grandeur was the Bait which he was taken with, and his Pride affected a higher condition that that which his ⟨p. 10⟩Maker had placed him in. The first Sin of Satan too had Pride for its Original. Hence we are advised in I Tim 3 6. he that is lifted up with pride, falls into the condemnation of the Devil. It is thought that his Dissatisfaction at some Privileges, which he foresaw Mankind likely to be the subject of, was that which prompted him to the Rebellion and Apostasy, in which he is now King over the children of pride. Tis thus in all the Sins which those have been the Parents of; there lies Pride at the bottom of them all. What Solomon says of one Sin, Only by Pride comes contention; the like may be said of All Sin, Mainly by Pride comes Transgression. Upon the Root of Pride it is, that there grows all the Disobedience to God, which is at any time committed in the World. It was the Saying of the Prophet, in Jer. 13.17. If ye will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret Places for your pride. From our Pride it is, that we do not Hear the voice of God unto us in his Ordinances ⟨p. 11⟩or in His Providences; Tis Pride that makes us thick of Hearing, when our God counsels us to Do Justice and have Mercy, and walk Humbly with Him: Every Sin (as one says of every man) hath a Pope in the Belly of it; something that Exalts it self against all that is called GOD. The Sinners whom Solomon calls the Fools, are those whom David calls the proud. If men were not proud Fools they would never espouse a way of wickedness; men Sin with an High Heart, and that makes them Sin with an High Hand against the God of Heaven. Through Pride, it is, that we must have our Will, tho Gods Will be quite contrary thereunto. And when the most High lays his commands before us, we do; as if we were Above Him, say, We will not hearken thereunto. Through pride it is that we can't bear the Order which the Sovereign God has sixth us in, but we take indirect ways to relieve and alter our circumstances. And here is the […] of all our Miscarriages. Be sure YOU ⟨p. 12⟩that are now in Chains before us, must acknowledge this to be the Rise of yours.
The First of our sin• was founded in a cursed Pride, & the most of our Sins are tainted with it. The first sin of Adam had Pride for a main ingredient of it. It was propounded unto him, in Gen. 3.5. Ye shall be as Gods, Honour and Grandeur was the Bait which he was taken with, and his Pride affected a higher condition that that which his ⟨p. 10⟩Maker had plac'd him in. The first Sin of Satan too had Pride for its Original. Hence we are advised in I Tim 3 6. he that is lifted up with pride, falls into the condemnation of the Divel. It is thought that his Dissatisfaction at some Priviledges, which he foresaw Mankind likely to be the subject of, was that which prompted him to the Rebellion and Apostasie, in which he is now King over the children of pride. Tis thus in all the Sins which those have been the Parents of; there lies Pride at the bottom of them all. What Solomon sayes of one Sin, Only by Pride comes contention; the like may be said of All Sin, Mainly by Pride comes Transgression. Upon the Root of Pride it is, that there grows all the Disobedience to God, which is at any time committed in the World. It was the Saying of the Prophet, in Jer. 13.17. If ye will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret Places for your pride. From our Pride it is, that we do not Hear the voice of God unto us in his Ordinances ⟨p. 11⟩or in His Providences; Tis Pride that makes us thick of Hearing, when our God councels us to Do Justice and have Mercy, and walk Humbly with Him: Every Sin (as one sayes of every man) hath a Pope in the Belly of it; something that Exalts it self against all that is called GOD. The Sinners whom Solomon calls the Fools, are those whom David calls the proud. If men were not proud Fools they would never espouse a way of wickedness; men Sin with an High Heart, and that makes them Sin with an High Hand against the God of Heaven. Through Pride, it is, that we must have our Will, tho Gods Will be quite contrary thereunto. And when the most High layes his commands before us, we do; as if we were Above Him, say, We will not hearken thereunto. Through pride it is that we can't bear the Order which the Sovereign God has fixt us in, but we take indirect wayes to relieve and alter our circumstances. And here is the 〈…〉 of all our Miscarriages. Be sure YOU ⟨p. 12⟩that are now in Chains before us, must acknowledg this to be the Rise of yours.
