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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

and put out his eyes and bound him with fetters of brass and made a Miller of him to grinde in the Prison-house at Gaza Dost thou exceed others in strength of body yet consider thou art therein inferiour to the Horse the Elephant and divers other beasts thou shewest what a poor creature thou art to put confidence in bodily strength The force of an hidden evil overcame Hercules that was not to be overcome by any man The strongest man in the world There is none strong like our God 1 Sam. 2.2 Jer. 9 23. Cogita quantarum ipse sis virium istae enim non tuae sunt sed hospitii imo carceris vires tui vanum autem est cum ipse sis fragilis forti habitaculo dicam melius forti Adversario gloriari Petrarc de Remed utriusq fortunae The Amorite was strong as the Oaks yet God destroyed him Amos 2.9 his strength is but weakness compared with the strength of an Oak Let not the strong man glory in his strength saith the Lord. There is no man so strong but his strength may be impaired either by immoderate labour or by some sharp and violent disease or by excessive grief and sadness or decrepit old age which overcometh all things Dost thou boast of thy great strength let me tell thee that every weighty thing laboureth with its own burthen and this is the nature almost of every thing when it cometh to its height it descendeth not with an equal motion the ascent is more slow but the descent is precipitious and this bodily strength when it begins to decline will decline apace SECT 2. Of pride of Strong-holds I Find in Alexanders wars that when he came to subdue the Sogdians a people that had a rock for their habitation and the munition of rocks on every side Volateran reports of Niniveh that it was eight years a building by no less then ten thousand Workmen and Diod. Sieulus saith The walls were an 100 foot high the breadth able to receive three carts on a row it had 1500 turrets but is now laid waste they jeered him and askt him Whether his Souldiers had wings or no Unlefs thy Souldiers can flie in the aire we fear thee not Many men when they get into a strong hold like David in his strong Mountain think they shall never be moved But fee how the Lord threatens Israel if they hearkned not to the voyce of the Lord and to do all his Commandments and Statutes that he would bring upon them a Nation of fierce countenance that should besiege them in all their gates until their high and fenced walls came down wherein they trusted throughout all their Land Natural men since the fall must have some strength or other to trust to Deut. 28.52 Gen. 11.7 8. When Cain was driven out from his Fathers house he falls a building of Cities and we read of some after the Flood that would build a Tower of Babel that should reach to Heaven to get themselves a name but the Lord soon confounded their language and scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth Thou boastest that thou livest in an impregnable Castle Dost thou not know the Proverb Quis cladem illius urbis quis funera sando Explicet aut posist lachrymis c. Virg. 2. Aeneid that there is no place that is invincible Even that Tower of Locris that double Tower could not be defended by Hannibal himself and that impregnable Tower of Praeneste then which Historians say never was a stronger when it could not be overcome by force of arms it was taken by flattery and false promises and was demolished That Fortress cannot stand long where wickedness getteth in between the timber and the stones besides the faith of Gods children which can remove mountains is able to throw down the strongest walls Heb. 11.30 as it did the walls of Jericho No strong-hold of it self is sufficient to secure a man from the wrath and vengeance of God pursuing him Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit Ovid. Epst 1. I have read of Bishop Hatto in Germany that suffered the poor to starve at his door albeit the Rats eat up his corn but after they had devoured his Corn they sought after him from house to house wherefore he built him an house in the River Rhemes where the water runneth very swiftly yet that would not serve they got to him and eat up him also whereupon that Tower is called The Rats Tower unto this day There is no true security in any thing but in God He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty Psal 91.1 2. I will say of the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress my God Psal 18.2 in him will I trust The Lord is my rock and my fortress c. my strength in whom I will trust my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower saith David The name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runneth into it and is safe Prov. 18.10 God hath promised his people that the munitions of rocks shall be their place of defence Isa 33.16 The Lord will set them so high that none shall be able to reach them to do them hurt But let the wicked man build never so high his pride will bring him down Thy terribleness hath deceived thee saith God to Edom and the pride of thy heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cedren hist p. 452. O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock that holdest the height of the hill though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the Eagle I will bring thee down from thence saith the Lord Jer. 49.16 When Nicephorus Phocas had built a mighty wall about his Palace for his security in the night he heard a voyce crying O King though thou buildest as high as the clouds yet the City may easily be taken the sin within will mar all CHAP. 12. Of pride of Children CHildren especially to Mothers whose affections are very strong are very taking things being little images of themselves Parents take so much delight in their children that the evils of children affect them as if they were their own How earnestly doth the woman of Canaan cry out to Christ for her daughter Matth. 15.21 You read likewise of a man crying out to Christ Master I beseech thee behold my son for he is all that I have Luke 9.38 Behold my son that is have mercy on my son as it is expounded Matth. 17.15 And so sometimes videre is taken for respicere and respicere for misereri seu delectari Psal 66.18 Parents are apt to dote too much upon an only son therefore when they are taken away the grief of Parents is excessive The greatest mourning in Scripture is set out by the mourning for an only son Indeed some there are whose affections are so strong to their children that

Marlorat deus humiles misericordiae suae oratores amat fastidiosos justitiae praesumptores odit God loveth the humble that sue to him for his mercy but hateth the proud presumer on his righteousness Luther in Psalm 5. as Luther saith 2 As it is odious to God so also among men there are none more hated and envied then proud persons Chrysost Orat. 65. Omnis ferè vitiosus diligit sibi similem Solus superbus elatū odit Innocentius 2 Reg. 14.8 9 10. as Chrysostome speaks men are apt to pitty the drunkards and to envy the proud and as one well observeth 't is a peculiar curse of God upon this sin of Pride whereas one drunkard loveth another and one swearer loveth another c. yet one proud man hateth another they that would have all the honour and preheminence themselves do swell with pride against the pride of others Read the story of Amazias King of Judah to this purpose who having slain the Edomites with a great slaughter Superbia ab omnibus contemnitur quia superbus omnis est injustus plus sibitribuens quam sibi debetur per consequens aliis etiam derogat quod aliis debebatur Keckerm System Ethic. lib. 2. sent to Jehoash King of Israel saying Come let us look one another in the face i. e. let us fight with each other as we say when two Armies meet to fight they face one another but the King of Israel writes back to him in Parables deriding of his pride with as great a pride saying The Thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the Cedar that was in Lebanon saying Give thy daughter to my son to wife and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon and trod down the Thistle Thou hast smitten Edom and thy heart hath lifted thee up glory of this and tarry at home for why shouldst thou medle to thy hurt that thou shouldst fall even thou and Judah with thee Thus he wrote that Amaziah might understand his pride The King of Israel took it in as much scorn to be challenged by the King of Judah as the Cedar might think it an indignity to match his daughter with the Thistle when Diogenes saw Plato delight in meat and curious beds he got up upon them with his dirty feet and said Calco Platonis fastum I tread upon Plato's pride but Plato replied sed majori fastu but with a greater pride and Plato observing Diogenes walking with a thred-bare cloak full of holes he said he could see his pride through the holes of his cloak 2. It is a sin that God resisteth God resisteth the proud Jam. 4.6 he sets himself in battel aray against the proud it is not said in the whole Bible that God resisteth any sinner but the proud God may be said to resist the proud 1. By scattering their devices and confounding their counsels thus he is said to scatter the proud in the imaginations of their heart Luke 1. Thus God dasht the devices of Achitophel against David and Haman against the Jews how did the Lord dash the devices of Nimrod and those proud Babel-builders upon the face of the earth that in the pride of their heart would have built a tower whose top should reach to heaven thereby to get them a name Genes 11. Thus the Lord scattered the devices of the proud Egyptians when they boasted in their great power and glory and vaunted when they pursued Israel I will overtake them I will divide the spoil my lust shall be satisfied upon them Ex. 18.11 But saith Jethro to Moses In the thing wherein they dealt proudly the Lord was above them 2. By taking from them the things whereof they are proud when the heart of man is too much set upon a childe or any other thing usually the Lord taketh it from us when the daughters of Zion were proud of their beauty and bravery Isa 3.16 17 18. the Lord threatens to smite the Crown of their head with a scab and discover their secret parts and take away their bravery And because idolatrous Israel did not know saith the Lord that I gave her corn and wine and oyl and multiplyed her silver and gold which they prepared for Baal therefore will I return and take away my corn in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof c. Hos 2.8 9. 3. Romanorū est Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos By punishing them with sore judgements A wise heathen being demanded what God was doing in heaven answered that he did nothing but throw down the proud and set up the humble Herein the Lord declareth his Soveraignty God puts Job to that which was Gods peculiar work Deck thy self now with Majesty and excellency and aray thy self with glory and beauty Job 40.10 11 12. cast abroad the rage of thy wrath and behold every one that is proud and abase him look on every one that is proud and bring him low it is Gods peculiar work to bind all the sons of pride The day of the Lord of Hosts shall be on every one that is proud and lofty Isa 2.12 and upon every one that is lifted up and he shall be brought low Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven Malac. 4.1 and all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch This sin was that which threw the Angels out of heaven aspiring Vltor superbos sequitur à tergo deus Pride was so ponderous in the Angels that heaven could not hold it Midleton as some think to be equal unto God This sin was that which ejected our first Parents out of Paradise therefore the Lord shut up their way to the tree of life with flaming Cherubims When Pharaoh swells against the Lord Who is the Lord c. the Lord staineth the pride of his glory When Nebuchadnezzar proudly speaks walking in his stately Palace of Babel Dan. 4.30 Is not this great Babel that I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty the same hour was he driven out from men to eat grass with the oxen and when his understanding and Kingdom are restored to him again he acknowledgeth that Gods works are truth and his waies judgement and those that walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4.35 Pride was one of the sins of Sodom Ezek. 16.49 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Herodot which procured its great overthrow when Sennacherib lifted up himself against the God of heaven he sent an Angel that slew in one night of his army 185000. and he himself was slain by his own sons and Herodotus saith that this was left upon his Tomb Whosoever thou art that seest me Quem dies vidit veniens superbum hunc dies vidit fugiens jacentem Sen. in Thyest learn