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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

Christ and offered to God when they have knowledge and years of discretion by good education for this God took special order in his Law telling his people that his laws must not only be in their own heads to know them Deut. 6.7 but in their mouths to talk of them and learn them to their children And questionless the common dissoluteness and disobedience of children when they be grown up proceeds from the carelesness of Parents when they were young they offered them not to Christ nor put them to his school but trained them up in wantonness pride and vanity which is the bane of youth And thus some have brought their children to beggery others to the Gallows and more have brought them to spiritual and eternal death CHAP. 13. Of Pride of outward priviledges EVil men are very apt to pride themselves in their outward priviledges The Jews boasted they were Abrahams seed according to the flesh though they cared not to follow Abrahams faith they boast also that they have the Temple of the Lord Jerem. 7.4 Deus habitat in medio nostrs apud nos babet domicilium Haec prima hypocritarum munitio Calv. in Jerem. 7. and they cry the Temple of the Lord as if they should have said God dwelleth in the midst of us he hath his habitation with us This is the first fortress of hypocrites saith Calvin They gloried that they were a vine of Gods own planting that God had known and chosen them out of all the families of the earth to be his peculiar people and had entred into covenant with them There is nothing more common with proud and wicked men saith Salvian then to defend themselves by the name of Catholick when in life they are more prophane than Goths and Vandals Salvian de provid dei lib. 7. Vanum sine corpore nomen Hoc nomine ecclesia sola Romana gloriatur Coster in Enchirid de notis Eccles a vain name without a body yet this is the argument of Costerus the Jesuite in this name the Roman Church alone doth glory But what doth this priviledge of a religious name profit them that call themselves Catholicks and the same may be said of the Catholick faith and profession Little reason have men to be proud of outward priviledges for the Apostle tells us that in Christ Jesus neither Circumcision availeth any thing Gal. 6.15 nor uncircumcision but a new creature nothing is acceptable to God nor available to salvation Chrysostome saith of the Jews that divinis penè obruti erant beneficiis and under these two he Synecdochically comprehendeth all outward priviledges prerogatives dignities and precedences whatsoever under circumcision comprising the dignities of the Jews Rom. 3.1 2. Rom. 9.4 5. under uncircumcision the Gentiles with all their wit wealth strength laws policy or whatever is of esteem among men and glorious in the eyes of the world all which he accounts as nothing in respect of regeneration Luk. 16.15 1. Therefore first wealth strength nobility wisdom are nothing and not to be gloryed in 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28. You see your calling brethren not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty c. and things that are not to confound the things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence 2. Outward callings are nothing as to be Emperours Kings Priests Prophets Apostles 3. Or outward actions of hearing fasting almes-giving prayer It is a mark of a wicked cast-away to rest in these things of one who buildeth the house not upon the Rock Qui domū aedificat non in petra sed in arena August in Ps 103. but upon the Sand saith Austin It is the note of such as shall be refused when the great King shall make distinction between the sheep and Goats 4. Kindred and alliance avail not for if the blessed Virgin had not as well conceived Christ in her heart by faith Beatior Maria percipiendo fidem Christi quàm concipiendo carnem Christi Christum faelicius gestavit corde quam corpore mente quam ventre August as in her womb according to the flesh she had not been saved Luke 11.27 28. For when a certain woman said unto Christ Blessed is the womb that bare thee and the paps that gave thee suck he said yea rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it It seemeth to have been an usual thing among the Jews to commend Parents by their children and to commend children by pronouncing their Parents blessed in them So it is recorded of Rabbi Jochanan Ben Zachary that commending one of his scholars he brake out into this speech Blessed is she that bare thee And in prophane Authors this and the like speeches are usual Ashre sevvaled techa Beataquae te genuit Tremel in loc Faelices tales quae te genuere Parentes Thus Solomon tells us that a wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is heaviness to his mother Prov. 10.1 yea as good children be comforts to their Parents privately so they be credits to them publickly as the Psalmist saith he that hath good children need not be ashamed to meet his enemy in the gate and that this is an especial outward blessing Quisquè nascitur ex Adamo nascitur damnatus de damnato Aug. in Psal 132. our Saviour denyeth not for in his answer he doth not cross and contradict the speech as false but only correct it shewing that though it were a good thing in the kind to have good children yet it was a better thing to be good our selves and howsoever his blessed mother were a vessel of grace on earth and be now a glorious Saint in heaven yet herein consisted not the height of her happiness in that she bare him in her body but rather in this that she believed on him in her heart And if Christs kinsmen had not been his brethren as well by spiritual adoption and regeneration as by carnal propagation Mark 3.30 31 32 33 34. and generation they should not have had inheritance in the kingdom of God 5. Nay the outward Elements are nothing without the inward grace 1. For Baptism it is not the washing the face or body nor the washing away the filth of the flesh that is acceptable to God but the stipulation of a good conscience that maketh request to God 1 Pet. 3.21 2. For the Sacrament of the Lords Supper he that doth not as well receive panem dominum 1 Cor. 11.27 29. as panem domini the bread that is the Lord as the bread of the Lord is an unworthy receiver and so is guilty of his body and blood and the reason why these outward priviledges are nothing available with God is because the things that God regardeth are spiritual and eternal

cruelty and rigorous extremity making him to carry his own Cross as long as he is able to stand under it John 19.17 Being come to the place of his execution they hang him between two Thieves and notorious malefactours as if he had been a Master of mis-rule and ring-leader in routs and riots Matth. 27.38 Luke 23.33 Thus our Lord Jesus humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross as the Apostle speaks Phil. 2.8 9. Such was his humility that though he were the God of Angels yet by his sufferings he was made lower then the Angels Heb. 2.9 Nor do his enemies content themselves to put him to a most painful and shameful death but also they add affliction to him in the manner of it 1. By mocking him at his arraignment and mocking him on the Cross contrary to all humanity and civility to mock a man in misery 2. Being in the midst of his agony and extremity of pain and crying out of thirst John 19.28 they mingle him such a potion as would rather encrease then asswage his thirst Matth. 27.34 which some think would entoxicate a man and make him lose the use of his reason But great was his humility and patience to endure such contradiction of sinners against himself Heb. 12.3 3. They put a Crown of thornes upon his head drove nails into his hands and feet and thrust a spear into his side But as one saith The pain of his body was but the body of his pain D. Plaiser the sorrow of his soul was the soul of his sorrow when he cryed out My God My God why hast thou forsaken me Hae non voces desperantis aut diffidentis Deum enim vocat suum sed cum tristissima tentatione luctantis Bucan Com. loc But all this while we must know he despaired not for these were not the words of a man despairing or distrusting for he calleth God his God We must not think that the Godhead had wholly separated and withdrawn it self from the manhood but it was quaedam derelictio ubi nulla fuit in tanta necessitate virtutis exhibitio nulla Majestatis ostentio Bernard A certain desertion where there was no exhibition of strength no shew of Majesty in so great a necessity Now as this shews his great humility so also his abundant love towards us for all this was for us he had no sin and therefore could not have been toucht with the punishments of sin as were all those miseries that he underwent This Paul saith for the general that he that knew no sin was made sin for us 2 Cor. 5.21 and in particular he being rich became poor for our sakes that we through his poverty might be made rich 2 Cor. 8.9 His humility was to procure our glory he became weak Isa 53.4 5. Humility is so hard a lesson to get into the heart that Christ was fain to come down from heaven in his own person to teach it Adams that we might become strong he was bound in swadling bands to loose the bands of our sins he is clad in clouts and mean rags to deck us with the rich robes of his righteousness he was born among beasts to advance us to the society of Angels he was born under the tyranny of Augustus to deliver us from the tyranny of Satan he came down from heaven to earth to lift us up from earth to heaven he would be taxed and have his name taken on earth that we might be free Citizens Quel medesimo affetto sia in vol che fu ancora in Christo Jesu Ital. and have our names written in heaven In a word he became the son of man that we might become the sons of God Gal. 4.4 5. He suffered death to redeem us to life Rom. 4.25 Therefore let us learn of him to be meek and humble Let the same mind be in us that was in Christ Jesus let the consideration of the great humility of Jesus dismount us from all high thoughts of our selves Phil. 2.5 The heart of man is a proud piece of flesh men stand upon their terms and think scorn to abase themselves to do good to others But did we think seriously of the great abasement of Christ our pride would down Shall Christ our Prince and Master humble himself and shall we exalt our selves what intolerable impudence is it that where the King of glory made himself of no reputation there a silly worm should swell with pride Shall God be abased and shall man be proud certainly that mans heart is harder then a rock whom this high example cannot move to humility CHAP. 34. An exhortation to humility The conclusion of the whole work LET every one now look into his own heart and see what pride is there and when we have found it out let us labour to humble our selves for it as good Hezekiah did of whom we read 2 Chron. 32.25 that his heart was lifted up and ver 26. it is added Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart Let Magistrates Ministers and all true Christians exceedingly humble themselves for the pride of their hearts and let every faithful soul weep in secret places for the great pride of this Nation lest after all our glorious shews the Lord lay us aside as vessels wherein is no pleasure oh take heed of being lifted up with pride when God is staining the pride of all glory and marring the pride of England as he threatned to mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem Jer. 13.9 'T is dangerous for a Mariner to have his top-sails up in a violent storm oh pull down your top-sails Psal 78.5 lift not up your horn on high lest God pull you down and you be sunk without recovery The Lord humble us that he may exalt us in due time You may be too high but can never be too humble But this is not enough there must be humility as well as humiliation a man may be humbled and yet not be an humble man Gods judgements humbled Pharaoh several times but his heart was not humble it remained as hard as ever So Ahab was humbled he rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went softly his very pace was altered so that God himself takes notice of it for saith he to the Prophet 1 Reg. 21.29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me yet all this while Ahab was not humble for in the next Chapter you read that he will go up to Ramoth-Gilead to battel let God say what he will to the contrary Poverty and misery may break a proud mans stomack but not his heart he may be as stubborn against God as ever inwardly proud though outwardly humbled There is an humility likewise that is not good a counterfeit humility when a man is only externally and complementally humble his speeches his gestures his carriage are