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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

Christ is the Lilly of the valley Cant. 2.1 Christs example may serve instead of all Walk by Christs humility saith Austin if thou wilt come to his eternity Christ saith Learn of me I do not send you to the Patriarchs or Prophets but I set my self before you as a pattern of humility for you to follow He saith not Learn of me how I made the heavens and the stars and laid the foundations of the earth and laid the measures thereof he doth not say Imitate me in my fourty days fast in my walking upon the waters stilling the winds healing the sick raising the dead in a word not in any of my miraculous but in all my moral actions especially in humility So likewise Joh. 13. having washed his Disciples feet he told them he did it not in officium for any duty he owed them but in amorem out of love he bare to them in exemplum teaching them by his carriage towards them how they ought to carry themselves one towards another His argument is very strong and forcible for if he their Lord and Master had shewed himself so kind and humble towards them his servants and inferiors much more ought they to do the like to their fellows and equals now as they that intend to write or draw a picture fair must first look upon their copy and view their pattern and then labour and endeavour to follow it so let us first take a view and survey of the humility of Christ and then endeavour to conform our selves thereunto The humility of Christ is the medicione of mans pride saith Austin 1. His humility appeared in taking our nature upon him in taking our nature not in changing his own Naturam nastram suscipiendo non suam mutando Homo deo accessit non autem deus à se recessit verbum caro factum est non deposita sed seposita majestate instar solis sub umbra ad tempus latentis se mundo non ostendentis August saith a Father man came unto God but God departed not from himself and the Word was made flesh not by putting away but by laying aside his Majesty like the sun that for a time lies hid under a cloud not shewing himself to the world and such and so great was his love towards us that though he were equal with God and might so have remained continued yet he even seemed to strip himself of his own glory and appear only in our infirmity for he did not cast away the nature of God when he took upon him the nature of man sed mansit quoderat tamen assumpsit quod non erat Phil. 2.7 8. Zanch. in loc that did abide which was and yet he assumed that which was not and whereas the Apostle saith that he was made in the likeness of men or found in fashion as a man that is as learned Zanchy expounds the words in his whole nature Christ a great example of humility in his birth body and soul being like to us in all things sin only excepted Heb. 4.15 Now the great humility of God manifest in the flesh will appear if we consider his birth his life and his death There are many circumstances in his birth to set forth his humility to us 1. In making choice of a poor and humble mother one that was of a mean and low estate as she her self confesseth Luk. 1.48 Her mean estate appeareth in divers things 1. In her marriage with Joseph a Carpenter an handy-crafts man a man of a low and mean calling 2. By their travelling without a hand-maid or any servant to attend them 3. By her offering at her purification she offereth not a lamb for a burnt-offering and a turtle dove for a sin-offering Luk. 2.24 as was required of the wealthier sort Levit. 12.6 but two Turtles only or a pair of Pigeons which was indifferent by the law Maldonat Yea Maldonate the Jesuits conceit is that they were only a pair of young Pigeons as being of less pains to find and less price to pay for whence appeareth the poverty of Joseph and Mary for however Chemnitius conceiteth Chemnit that therefore the typical Lamb was not offered because the true Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world was present Calvin Joh. 1.29 yet Calvin and all other Protestant writers that I have seen do make their poverty the reason thereof Therefore the Popish painters are much deceived setting out Mary still in rich attire like a Lady of great state and pomp thus feeding the peoples ears with fables and their eyes with bables 2. Consider the time of his birth 1. He was born in the winter Cujus in arbitrio tempus erat nasciturus tempus elegit molestius Aretius the sharpest season of the year He in whose power time was being to be born chose the most grievous saith Bishop Babington and in the night to shew as Aretius noteth that he being the Sun of righteousness would by the warmth of his grace thaw those that lay even frozen and key-cold in the dregs of their sins and by the bright beams of his Gospel enlighten those that sate in darkness and in the shadow of death 2. He was born in a time when the Scepter was departed from Judah and the Jews put under tribute by the Romans when Augustus Caesar sent a decree that all the world should be taxed i e. all the Countries and Provinces within his dominions viz. the inhabitants of all their Cities and Villages should assemble themselves to their head City and there have their names taken Suetonius that according to their estates a tax might be set upon them to be yearly paid to his treasury and coffers and herein also appeared his humility in being born under the tyranny of Octavianus Consider the place of his birth it was not at Jerusalem the principal City of the land Mic. 5.2 but at Bethlehem a little City of David the bread of life will be born in Bethlehem which signifies the house of bread a place little among the thousands of Judah as the Prophet Michah termeth it But he might have been born at some Aldermans house in this poor City and have had the best respect it could afford no such matter they must buy their welcome and lodge in an Inn Well! there they might be well respected for their money and have convenient lodging It will not be had they either came too late or else carry not that port as they may think to gain enough by them their chambers are either taken up or at leastwise reserved for better guests he was born in an Inn to shew himself a stranger on earth and that we ought still so to behave our selves 1 Pet. 2.11 as strangers and Pilgrims upon earth But in what room of this Inn even in a stable the other rooms are otherwise appointed and in that stable both the Asses provender He

alwaies be discovered or discerned by the habit it may as well be found in a poor country cottage as in a sumptuous Princely Palace under a leathern jerkin as under a velvet jacket Diogenes said of pride It was a shepherd and the vulgar were the sheep which it carried from place to place even as it would And whereas other sins are committed at some time in some place by some person Non sit novitios accioche gonfiato di superbia not a novice lest he be pufft up with pride as a bladder pufft with wind Nuovamente piantato ne la fede ma ben instructo Ital. Annot. in 1 Tim. 3.6 this may be committed both at the Court in the City Town and Country in the Church Field and House and wheresoever a man be carrying his proud mind haughty heart and high spirit with him Item at all times by night or by day nay howsoever a man be employed whither he be solitary and alone by himself or whither in company with others one compareth pride unto death which spareth none high nor low pride hath more tricks and cunning to allure the hearts of men then other sins yea this is a sin to which Ministers as well as others are subject therefore the Apostle would not have a novice that is unmortified and unexperienced enter into the Ministery lest he be pufft up with pride and fall into the condemnation of the devil as the devil laboureth to infect all sorts of persons with the sin of pride so especially the Preachers of the Gospel as appeareth in that he raiseth a strife for precedency and superiority even among Christs own Disciples Luk. 9.46 and they that are acquainted with Church histories Superbia caelestes appetit mentes know right well that the precedencies of Bishops and their Seas and Seats hath been a point too much canvased in many Councels And this old Sophister and pestilent Polititian the Devil hath great reason to bestir himself to breed ambition and faction among such persons 1. Because they fall not alone but like blazing stars draw tails after them they draw many others after them Gualt in Lu●● Gualter expounds and applies the falling of the star into the bottomeless pit obscuring the sun and ingendring locusts to the pride and apostacy of the Roman Church and of the Pastors thereof Rev. 9. and doubtless pride in the Ministery will breed prophaness in the people 2. Because while they intend this they cannot attend their flocks nor give attendance to reading to exhortation and to doctrine as Paul adviseth Timothy 1 Tim. 4.13 nay while they seek themselves and their own things unmeasurably they cannot truly seek the things of our Lord Jesus Christ even as when the Shepherds follow other things their flocks must needs go to wrack So when Pastors altogether mind their own advancement on earth they are not so industrious as they should be to bring their people to heaven Pride is a King and all other vices are attendants upon it 3. Pride is the most stately and the most costly sin it sits like a Queen with a Crown upon its head Isa 28.1 It cometh like a King with a huge troop and train of attendants and as a King requireth more charges to maintain it than other sins therefore some persons will put themselves upon many inconveniences to maintain their pride One saith that pride hath gotten a coach drawn with four horses an ambitious desire of rule and dominion love of proper praise disobedience of all laws and governments and contempt of others the wheels of this coach are verbosity and boasting levity and arrogancy the coach-man is the spirit of pride the lovers of honour and worldly vanities are those that ride in the coach the horses are without bridles the wheels without any stay and those that are carried are giddy weak and inconstant full of motion and mutation 4. It is a sin hardly rooted out where once it is seated it plaies Rex and will not easily be dispossest Cum benè cunctaris cum cuncta subacta putaris Quae prius infestat vincenda superbia restat As great Princes do not easily suffer themselves to be dispossessed of those strong holds that they once set foot in it is much more easie to avoid other sins as drunkenness luxury theft murder and such gross sins Sub hoste quem occidit moritur qui de culpâ quam superat elevatur Gregor then the sin of pride and the devil thinks himself more sure of a man by pride than by any other sin for as an Archer if he shoot a dear or any other beast in the foot or leg or side is not sure of his game but if he strike him in the heart then he is his own so Satan by other sins doth but slightly wound the soul but by pride he gives it a deadly wound Pride is the first sin that declareth its life and vigour in a child and the last that dieth in a man we read that Abimilechs skull was broke by a piece of a milstone thrown down upon him by the hand of a woman Judg 9.54 the man being ready to die called out hastily to his armour-bearer saying Slay me that men say not of me A woman slew him Note saith Chrysostome on this place Chrysost in Judic He dies under the hands of the enemy which he had slain that is proud of the sin he hath overcome the man was dying but his pride would not die As it is the first enemy that assaults the soul so it is the last that quits the field other vices are mortified and subdued and forced to forsake the field before life forsakes our bodies but pride alone holds out to the last it is ultimus diaboli laqueus the last snare of the devil a stain hardly washt out and many times it grows out of the ashes of other sins when a man hath overcome all other sins Inter omnia peccata tu semper es prima tu semper es ultima nam omne peccatum te accedente committitur te recedente dimittitur Innocent de contemptu mundi lib. 2. cap. 31. yet then is he to buckle with this Giant of pride As death is the last enemy so pride is the last sin that shall be destroyed Among all sins saith Innocentius speaking to pride thou art the first and thou alwaies art the last and as the Israelites were delivered when the first-born of Egypt were slain so we might hope the sooner to be delivered from our other sins if once we could be free and rid of this which Mr. Dent calleth the Master-pock of the soul SECT 2. 5. PRide is found in every sin in every sin there is a spice of pride in every sin there is found some contempt of God and his law when we refuse to obey Gods commandments doth it not proceed from pride Nehem. 9.16 17. they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardned