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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85881	The arraignment of pride, or, Pride set forth, with the causes, kinds, and several branches of it: the odiousness and greatness of the sin of pride: the prognosticks of it, together with the cure of it: as also a large description of the excellency and usefulness of the grace of humility: divided into chapters and sections. / By W. Gearing minister of the word at Lymington in Hantshire.	Gearing, William.	1660 (1660)	Wing G430; Thomason E1762_1; ESTC R209642	162,907	286

confes lib. 10. cap 23. Reverend Musculus found this spirit in the Anabaptists in his time when he had deserted the Romish Church he was compelled through poverty to hire himself with a Taylor and to work with him at his trade this man he found to be an Anabaptist one that pretended to much holiness but was nothing so though a great talker Musculus therefore reproveth him and among other things finding that he was idle and neglected his calling urged him with that of the Apostle He that will not work let him not eat Melch. Adam in vit Muscult p. 735. But the Anabaptist was too proud to receive a reproof and poor Musculus was presently thrust out of his doors Pride stops the ear against reproof Reprove a scorner saith Solomon and he will hate thee this shews such men to have Atheistical hearts did they believe holy reproofs and threatnings taken out of the Word of God they would not scorn them but tremble at them when the Word of God cometh so close that it toucheth mens bosome sins and crosseth them in their evil ways but they will not hearken but find out shifts to evade the force of the Word this cometh from Pride in the Wills of men When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the Words of the Lord for which the Lord their God had sent him to them Jerem. 43.1 2. Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshajah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the proud men saying to Jeremiah Thou speakest falsly The Lord God hath not sent thee to say Go not into Egypt to sojourn there but Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us Now as a proud man hateth a just reproof so being guilty he easily applyeth to himself any thing that he heareth though not spoken to him Sueton. in vit Tiber. Neron as Suetonius recordeth of Tiberius Nero that hearing Zeno the Philosopher disputing and not understanding some harsh sentences he used he asked in what Dialect he spake who answering truly in the Dorick it was taken so ill as the poor man was condemned to perpetual banishment for it as if he had closly taxed Tiberius his loose and lascivious life he led among the Rhodians who spake that Dialect They who have high thoughts of themselves think meanly of what others say to them were men poor in spirit they would embrace every advice that hath truth and holiness in it Therefore when the Prophet would fasten a reproof on the Jews Jerem. 13.15 he saith to them Hear and give ear and be not proud As in the matter of private reproofs so the proud man cannot endure Church censures Hist Magdeb Centur 2. Aquila the antient Greek translator of the Bible left Christianity and turned to Judaism being angry at a sentence of excommunication against him so Santangelus the great Lawyer of Burdeaux was much enraged against the famous Camero Cameron Stellit in Epist and other Ministers of the Protestant Church because he was convented before their Synod for some delinquency 2. When men are impatient under afflictions A proud man cannot endure to be crost in any thing nor bear the least affront such men are like the Devil who is the proudest and the most discontented creature of all other Pride fils men with murmuring discontentedness against Gods Providences if things go not according to a proud mans will then he fumeth and is impatient Thus it was with the Israelites God had brought them out of Egypt brought them through the wilderness and to the border of the land of Canaan but when they hear there are Giants and fenced Cities Num. 14.2 3 4. then they fall a murmuring against Moses and Aaron and said unto them would God that we had dyed in the land of Egypt or in this wilderness and in their mad mood they say one to another Let us make a Captain and let us return into Egypt So in like manner those discontented rebels Numb 16. call Egypt a land flowing with milk and hony ver 13. whereas it was a land where their infants were murdered and themselves cruelly enslaved they had forgotten those evils and miseries out of which God had delivered them but now they talk as if God and Moses had done nothing for them but deprived them of many comforts which there they possessed He that ruleth over his own spirit saith the wise man Latius regnes domando spiritum quam si Lybiam remotis Gadibus jungas Horat. lib. 2. od 2. ad Salust is greater than he that overcometh Cities Prov. 16.32 Therefore self-denyal is a Grace enjoyned by our Saviour to accompany the bearing of the Cross Luk 9.23 A man must not only abnegare sua deny and forsake his goods and lands for Christs sake if necessity require nor also abnegare suos forsake his friends if they labour to withdraw him from his best friend Amandus est genitor sed praepoamdus est Creator Arabr but also abnegarese he must deny himself yea to hold himself as it were an excommunicate person as one saith in another case if he will bring his will to submit to Gods Will and quietly bear the yoke of Christ How patiently doth our Saviour carry himself in this respect when a bitter cup was put into his hand to drink Thus he praies to his Father Father if thou be willing Luk. 22.42 Matth. 26.39 remove this cup from me as Luke hath it Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me as Matthew hath it nevertheless not my will but thine be done Calvin saith these latter words be a correction of his former petition Videmus ut pia sint vota quae in speciem à dei voluntate discrepant quia non exactè semper vel scrupulose à nobis inquiri vult deus quid statuerit ipse sed quod pro sensus nostri captu optabile est flagitari à se permittit Calv. in Harm Evang. which he saith he let fall on the suddain by reason of the greatness of his grief without considering what his Father had decreed he was so earnestly bent on what he naturally desired without recalling himself yet he freeth him from fault though he asked what was not agreeable to his Fathers will It s lawful saith he to pray for the peaceable and flourishing estate of the Church the suppressing of superstition and the repressing of the enemies of Gods truth though perhaps he purpose not to grant these things but will have his Son reign in the midst of his enemies and his Church as the Lilly among thorns and the wicked to remain to exercise the faith and patience of his Saints But in my conceit Beza saith better on Mat. Quod additur non significat repugnantiam voluntatum quae peccato non caruisset sed diversitatem quae per se vitiosa non est ne in hominibus quidem si modo hominis