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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96400	A seasonable and Christian caution against the provoking sin of pride and other manifest evils, and of the judgements threatned because thereof, compassionately tendered to the inhabitants of London, and elsewhere concerned as a warning to repentence. / [by] G.W.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1954; ESTC R186526	3,904	1

26. Their Pride and Rebellion was the cause of such their Calamity and Debasement Because the Daughters of Zion are Haughty c. ver 16. And when the Prophet foretold God's Judgement upon Jerusalem and how he would distress Ariel and what heaviness and sorrow should be He also said Thou shalt be brought down c. Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of Hosts with Thunder and with Earth-Quakes c. Isa 29. Oh why are such Ominous Signes and such eminent Threatning Visits from the Lord of Hosts even in our days no more taken notice of considered or laid to Heart by many 3d. Tremble O Earth Oh Inhabitants of the Earth at the presence of the Lord God Fear and tremble Oh! all Proud flesh at the presence of the God of Jacob Oh be abased and humbled before the Great and Terrible God cast off thy costly Ornaments and Proud Attire and sit down in the Dust Mourn and Lament and Bewail thy self and Repent as in Dust and Ashes because of thy abominable Pride many and great Provocations against the Lord of Hosts whose terrible day approacheth When the Lord threatned to Cut off Idolaters and backsliders that turned back from the Lord and those that have not sought the Lord nor inquired after him Zeph. 1. 4 5 6. He also Threatned saying And it shall be in the day of the Lord's Sacrifice that I will visit the Princes and the Kings Children and all such as are Cloathed with strange Apparel Zeph. 1. 8. And was there ever any Age or Nation that exceeded this of Our's in Strangeness and folly in Apparel 4th And when Jerusalem and the Daughter of Zion were Warned of their Calamities Misery and Destruction because of their Pride Wickedness and Abominations it was declared unto them And when thou shalt be destroyed what wilt thou do Though thou Cloathest thy self with Scarlet tho' thou deckest thee with Ornaments of Gold tho' thou Paintest thy Face with Colours yet shalt thou Trim thy self in vain c. Jer. 4. 30. 5th And now seriously consider the Holy Apostles Exhortation and Counsel in this Case 1 Tim. 2. 9 10. In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest Apparel with shame-facedness and Sobriety not with broidered Hair or Gold or Pearls or costly Array But which Becometh Women Professing Godliness with good Works The like also in 1 Pet 3 3 4 5. Whose Adorning let it not be that outward adorning of Plaiting the Hair wearing of Gold or putting on of Apparel But let it be the hidden man of the Heart in that which is not corruptible even the Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit which is in the sight of God of great Price For after this manner in the old Time the holy Women also who trusted in God adorned themselves being in subjection unto their own Husbands They did not Adorne themselves with high Heads and Towering Dresses nor with Spotted or Painted Faces nor with Foolish or Immodest Attire which things among profest Christians are no small Scandal and Reproach to Religion and Christianity but against the Honour and Interest thereof and to the great dishonour of God and his dear Son Jesus Christ for which all such kind of Christians as are thus guilty of this Horrible Souls sinking sin of Pride are accountable And you that are Parents be Examples of Humility and Christianity and bring up your Children in the Nurture Instruction and Admonition of the Lord Ephes 6. 4. and not in Pride and Vanity in Apparel nor in Musick and Dancing to expose them to Lightness Wantonness Temptation and Ruine as too too many do for which they are greatly chargeable with the sins of their Children and have a heavy Account to give to the Righteous God for being accessary to their Ruine and Destruction Oh Inhabitants of London and England who are concerned in this provoking sin of Pride Excess and Foolishness return to the Light of Christ his Grace and Truth in you and humble your selves under the mighty hand of God and break off your Sins by true and unfeigned Repentance that you may find mercy in Christ Jesus and for his sake That God in Compassion may turne away his Wrath and avert his Judgements threatned and impending over these Nations From a real Friend to our Nation and the Souls of all People G. W. LICENSED July the 18. 1693. Sold by Randal Tayler near Stationers-Hall 1693.

A Seasonable and Christian Caution Against the Provoking Sin of PRIDE and other manifest Evils and of the JUDGEMENTS threatned because thereof Compassionately tendered to the Inhabitants of LONDON and elsewhere Concerned as a Warning to REPENTANCE I. MY Soul with many others having been often bowed down under a deep sence and burthen of the Impenitence hardness of Heart Unsensibleness Pride and Presumption abounding in this City of London and Nation of England and being sensible the great God is thereby highly offended and provoked to Anger and that even the Nation is in great Danger deeply to suffer by the Sins of the People and the great abuse of the Mercies of God I Considered what Method I might use to persuade this People professing Christianity and the Holy Scriptures to be their Rule of Life c. to be ashamed of this Reigning Sin of Pride whereupon in the Sence of the Love of God and in great compassion to this City and Nation I said in my Heart as the Matter truly opened Let us try them with the Holy Scripture Testimonies and let none be angry nor offended thereat but take warning and speedily Repent For if they will not hear Moses and the Prophets nor regard the Commands or Testimonies of Christ Jesus or his Holy Apostles when duly applyed Neither will they hear if one should rise from the Dead to warn them Pray Consider 1. It is the wicked that is so proud that he seeketh not after God Psal 10. 4. And what then will be the Judgement of such The Lord will Cut off them that are turned back from him and those that have not sought the Lord nor enquired after him Zeph. 1. 4 5 6. 2. Who is King over the Children of Pride but the Wicked one the Devil the Old Crooked Serpent Figuratively call'd Leviathan Job 41. 25. Isa 27. 1. to be sure the Children of Pride are none of God's Children nor Christ's Subjects or Followers but averse to his Example of Humility and Self-denial 3. The high look of man shall be humbled and the loftiness of men shall be abased for the day of the Lord of Hosts is upon all the Proud and haughty and upon all that is exalted and it shall be made low Isa 2. 11. 12. 4. For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the Proud yea all that do wickedly shall be as Stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts Mal. 4. 1. 5. When Pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is Wisdom Prov. 11. 2. Pride goeth before destruction and an high mind before the fall Pro. 16. 18. The Lord will destroy the house of the Proud man Pro. 15. 25. The Pride of a man shall bring him Low but the humble in Spirit shall enjoy Glory Pro. 29. 23. 6. The Lord of Hosts hath decreed this to stain the Pride of all Glory and to bring to contempt all them that be Glorious in the Earth Isa 23. 9. Wo to the Crown of Pride to the Drunkards of Ephraim for his glorious Beauty shall be a fading Flower which is upon the head of the Valley of them that be fat and are overcome with Wine Isa 28. 1. They shall be troden under foot even the Crown of the Pride of the Drunkards of Ephraim ver 3. Now pray observe what an apparent Embleme and Mark of the Crown of Pride is now your Womens lofty Head-Tire their strange Towering and Extravagant Dresses upon their Heads and how Immodest vain and Antick thereby many even overtopping the Men And what a doting vain and foolish Humour 't is in any men to delight to see their Wives or Children go in such vain Immodest and Indecent Dresses and what ill Examples are even many of the Priests and Ministers Wives and Children therein And what a sad Reproach and Scandal to Religion and the Christian Profession to see Assemblies for Religious Worship so much filled with abominable Pride in Attire as with those high Towering Dresses Extravagant and Excessive Wigs more for Pride of Ornament than Service or Necessity And what a foolish and Effeminate Humour it is in any to affect such Extravagancy and Excess in Apparel and vain Ornaments and how greatly unbecoming Religious Assemblies pretending Worship Fasting Prayer Humiliation and Repentance And for any to excuse their Pride and Immodesty in Apparel either by pretending that Pride is not in the Apparel but in the Heart or that they may wear their Proud Vain Garbs their Immodest Lofty and Towering Dresses and yet not be Proud in Heart Herein they wrong their own Consciences Flatter and deceive themselves in their Pride and Folly let them but seriously look into impartially search and Examine their own Hearts and Consciences with the Light of Christ therein and they 'l easily see how that frequently their Minds Affections and Hearts have been busied and taken up to Imitate and get into the Vain Fashion Modes and Habits of Courts and Gentry Invented in France and other Places And what a shame and disgrace it is for English Protestants so much to affect the French Vain and Immodest Fashions and Habits or to be such Slaves to the Pride of France when they would be Loath to be Slaves to their Power Oh! take heed how you provoke the great God by your Pride and Excess and do not Flatter your selves The root of all your Pride in Habit is in your Hearts and from Within Even out of the Heart Proceed evil thoughts Adulteries Fornications Murthers Thefts Covetousness Wickedness Deceit Vncleanness a Wicked Eye Backbiting Pride and Foolishness Mark 7. 20 21 22 23. Therefore 't is a false Excuse and contrary to Christ's Doctrine for any to say that Pride or Foolishness is not in their Hearts when 't is apparent and notorious in their Habits and foolish Attire II. PRide in Root and Branch in Heart and Habit with its Immodesty Vanity and Foolishness in Apparel and the evil Example thereof is altogether and expresly forbidden of God and his Christ and directly contrary to the Holy Scriptures 1st How can it consist either with our Christian Profession or Modesty for any professed Christians to imitate Jezebel who Painted her Face and Tired her Head 2 Kings 9. 30. or to Resemble the strange Woman in Harlots Attire Prov. 7. 10. a remarkable Character and distinct from that of Modest Women fearing God 2d That of Isaiah 3. Chap. Is very remarkable how highly God was displeased with the Haughtiness and Pride of the Daughter of Zion among his People Israel of old with their Vanity and Pride in Apparel c. that he both Threatned and brought severe Judgements upon them to their great debasement contempt and distress in so much that the Lord said unto Jerusalem Thy men shall fall by the Sword and thy strength in the Battle Ver. 8. 25. Then shall her Gates mourn and Lament and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground ver