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Wise. There are two sorts of Pride; {128b} Pride of Spirit, and Pride
of Body. The first of these is thus made mention of in the Scriptures.
Every one that is proud in heart is abomination to the Lord. {128c} A
high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked is sin.
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Bodily pride
these Scriptures mention. In that day the Lord shall take away the
bravery of their tinckling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls,
and their round tires like the Moon, the chains, and the bracelets,
and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the
headbands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, the rings, and the
Nose-jewels: {128d} The changable suits of Apparell, and the mantles,
and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses, and the fine
linnen, and the hoods and the vails. By these expressions it is evident
that there is Pride of Body, as well as Pride of Spirit, and that both
are sin, and so abominable to the Lord. But these Texts Mr. Badman
could never abide to read, they were to him as Micaiah was to Ahab,
they never spake good of him, but evil.
Atten. I suppose that it was not Mr. Badmans case alone even to maligne
those Texts that speak against their vices: For I believe, that most
ungodly men, (where the Scriptures are) have a secret antipathy against
those words of God that do most plainly and fully rebuke them for their
sins. {128e}
Wise. That is out of doubt, and by that antipathy, they shew, that sin
and Satan are more welcome to them than are the wholesome instructions
of life and godliness.
Atten. Well, but not to goe off from our discourse of Mr. Badman. You
say he was proud: but will you shew me now some symptoms of one that is
proud?
Wise. Yes, that I will: And first I will shew you some symptoms of
Pride of Heart. {129a} Pride of heart, is seen by outward things, as
Pride of Body in general, is a sign of pride of heart; for all proud
gestures of the body flow from Pride of heart: therefore Solomon saith;
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eye-lids
are lifted up: {129b} And again; There is that exalteth their gate,
their going. {129c} Now these lofty eyes, and this exalting of the
gate, is a sign of a Proud heart: for both these actions come from the
heart: for out of the heart comes Pride, in all the visible appearances
of it. {129d} But more particularly:
1. Heart Pride is discovered {129e} by a stretched out Neck, and by
mincing as they go. For the wicked, the Proud, have a proud Neck, a
proud Foot, a proud Tongue, by which this their going is exalted. This
is that which makes them look scornfully, speak ruggedly, and carry it
huffingly among their Neighbours.
2. A proud heart, is a persecuting one: The wicked through his pride
doth persecute the poor. {129f}
3. A prayerless man is a proud man. {129g}
4. A contentious man is a proud man. {129h}
5. The disdainful man is a proud man. {129i}
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