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A36216 The Danger of pride and ambition, with the excellency of humility & obedience shewing the reasons why the former ought to be avoided, and the later chosen and imbraced : being a profitable discourse, occasionally published upon the funeral solemnity of a late unfortunate person. 1685 (1685) Wing D178; ESTC R12518 5,684 24

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The Danger of Pride and Ambition THE DANGER OF Pride and Ambition With the Excellency of Humility Obedience SHEWING The Reasons why the former ought to be Avoided and the later Chosen and Imbraced Being a Profitable Discourse occasionally Published upon the Funeral Solemnity of a late Unfortunate Person 1 Kings 1 chap. 5 ver Then Adonijah the Son of Haggith exalted him self saying I will be King and he prepared himself Chariots and Horsemen and fifty Men to run before him This may be Printed R. L S. Printed by H. B. for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Py-corner 1685. The DANGER of PRIDE and AMBITION c. 1 Kings 1 Chap. 5 Verse Then Adonijah the Son of Haggith exalted himself saying I will be King and he prepared himself Chariots and Horsemen and fifty Men to run before him AMongst all the Blessings that contribute to Mans felicity there is nothing that ought to be more desirable to make him truly happy in this World and furnish him with an opportunity to prepare him for the other than true content humility calmness of mind and a resolution to be pleased and sit down quiet in what station soever GOD has appointed or allotted him not to meddle nor concern himself in other mens affaires nor be emulous of Greatness but in patience and meekness to under go what ever shall befall him not repineing nor revileing but rejoycing not shaken by the Storms of adversity nor swell'd with the Tide of prosperity but remaining alwaies the same rendering Honour Obedience and Respect where it ought to be and a civil behaviour towards all men living blameless and in a Christian charity with your fellow-Creatures Such a one I say lives in a perpetual calm let the storm roar round him never so loud and the waves dash never so much having built his House upon a Rock When the restless and unquiet man is ever tossed in the Ocean of hazards and dangers being every moment ready to split upon the Rocks of misery or strand himself on the Beach of Shame and Disgrace For sure it is there is nothing proves more fatal to the Sons of Adam than Pride and her black off-spring Ambition nay and not only to Man but Angels as appears by Those whose proud aspiring caused their Fall from the Mansions of Joy and Bliss in a Dungeon of horrid Darkness and Abyss of endless Pain and Misery bound in everlasting Chaines of Punishment Yet is it not sufficient to deter rash Mortals from imitating those Infernal Legions as far as corporeal Beings are capable of imitating incorporeal as is evident in divers who have wilfully courted Pride and Ambition to their own destruction blinded with hopes of greatness they did not or would not see the eminent Danger that attended the rashness of their Folly but being of a restless nature gave way to that Feavourish Disorder that drove them from their happy station to shame and disgrace over and above the Trouble and Anxiety that still possessed the mind with fears and jealousies for Ambition is a continual Tempest that tosses the labouring Soul upon the Sea of Hope and for the most part Lawless Desire a thing that is ever craving but never satisfied endeavouring to pass all bounds and limits impatient of ease and restraint still aspiring to Rise above the common Leavell and always envying Superiors and disdaining Equals and Inferiours frought continually with Airy imaginations reaching after lofty things and desiring impossibilities Put case the Man whose Soul is too prone to draw in this fatal Poison should have his first desire to be great and prosperous to live in plenty and ease be respected with all imaginable Regard Would this content him No his Soul infected with the Feaver of Ambition would still be craving the Temptation would be buzzing in his Ears that some neighbouring Cedar dropped upon his Boughs some others Fame and Greatness eclipsed his and could he but aspire above him he would promise himself ease and content desiring no greater promotion This perhaps is granted which in likelihood may for a while give satisfaction but not long e're he complaines the Clouds over-shadow him and screen from the cheerful Sun-beams some greater Favourite than himself appears whose sight he badly indures nor can he have rest or ease but daily tortures and torments himself imagining his own Lustre to be dimn in comparison of his that is above him And now his Wishes are renewed promising himself content could this Obstacle be removed which peradventure falls out to his wish but then the Sun-beams beat too hot upon his aspiring Top and fain he●d be above it grieved he is and to gratifie himself leaves no means unattempted which he conceives may any way further his purpose no horrid mischief can seem a Danger greater than he will venture on though to his certain Ruin as many sad examples have made apparent How were Chora Dathan and Abiram for Ambitiously aspiring to equalize themselves with Moses and so consequently eclipse that Power GOD had ordained swallowed alive with all that appertained unto them The ponderous Globe hearing the Voice of its Creator cleaft asunder and wide yauning sunk them to its center giving their Ambition a fall as low as its aspiring hoped to carry it aloft How did the great Goliah tow'ring in his hauty pride defie the Armys of the Living God proudly insulting for a while Ambitious yet to get a greater and more dreaded name till David but a Youth by unsuspected ways overthrew him bereaving him of Life and Honour in a moment Young Absalom in whose hot Breast Ambition spread her deadly Bane not contented with the Favours of an Indulgent King whose paternal care and tender love had rescued him from Death his due for murthering his Brother Amnon nor the favour of restoring after Banishment with many Princely Benefits heaped on him by the Royal Hand but flattering himself with hopes of Empire prompted by Ambition he first found means to steal the Peoples hearts and then with impious Armes invaded the Heritage of Jacob and molested those whom he ought to have defended to his Power and rendered due Obedience to his Father and his King But long did not the Breath of the Multitude nor their Tumultuous Armes availe him but routed in all parts and flying his greatest Ornament became the cause of his Destruction for hanging by the Hair in a thick Oak he lost his Life with his Ambition falling by the hand of Joab the Terror of his Crime being so great that although it appears he had a considerable time to do it in he could not unloose himself which gave some of the Jewish Rabins occasion to imagine that when he was so hanging he fancied Hell to be gaping beneath him and that if he were unloosed he should instantly drop into it the Terrour of which wrought so far that he had no power to relieve himself But whether so or otherwise certain it is he received the reward of his