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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

they take it heavily if God take away but one of many children from them Ambrose reporteth a doleful accident that befell a poor man in his time who had five sons and knew not how to relieve himself and them in a famine unless he sold one to buy food for the rest On a time with a heavy heart he called them all about him to see which he might best spare He looketh upon his eldest son It is engrafted in the hearts of Parents by the very Law of Nature to be loving and pittiful and kind to their children therefore God in his Law Exod. 20. only bids children be dutiful to their Parents in the fifth Commandment but saith nothing to Parents to be careful for their children knowing it to be derived to them by a kind of natural instinct and therefore they need no teaching for it Luke 7.12 and thought he was best able to shift but shall he part with him that was the strength of his youth and the first that called him father he cannot endure it then he looketh upon his youngest and thinketh how he may part with him and alas he faith he was the Nest-chick and dearly beloved of his deceased mother and therefore he must not go a third resembleth his Ancestors and Progenitors having the Grandfathers neb and the Grandmothers eye and in him they should live when he was dead and therefore he must not go whatever came on it the fourth hath been ever loving to him and the fifth most diligent dutiful and industrious so that the poor man can spare never a one of his Olive plants from about his table And if a man could not part with one of many what a grief think we was it to the poor widow of Naim to part with one and all she being not a young wife neither that might have many moe but an old widow utterly without hope of issue Hath God given you many children pride not your selves in them Men are apt to glory in them because they bear their names their resemblance and they do as it were live in their children when themselves are dead they are the Parents multiplied Hast thou many children thou hast also many cares for them and many sorrows about them If thy children are good thou art still in fear of losing them if evil thou art in continual sorrow for them and till thou knowest how they will prove thy solace is ambiguous and thy care is certain Many good men have been greatly afflicted in their children as Adam Abraham Isaac Jacob Eli David and others Glory not then in the multitude beauty strength and comeliness of thy children for God can easily take them all away as he did Jobs children and all at once Thus God threatens Ephraim glorying in his children Their glory shall flee away like a bird from the birth Hos 9.11 from the womb from the conception though they bring up their children yet I will bereave them and there shall not be a man left Many fond and indulgent Parents are like the Ape that killeth its young with hugging them Parentes nostros sensimus parricidas Cypr. Chrysost lib. 3. de Monast vit cap. 4. May not children now use the same complaints as were in Cyprians days Our Fathers and Mothers have proved our murtherers soul-murtherers worse then they who murther the body as Chrysostome speaketh When Parents too much dote upon their children they take a quick way to bereave themselves of them We read that Jacob loved Joseph and doted more upon him then upon all his children Gen. 37.3 therefore the Lord bereaves him of his Joseph that lay so near to his heart for many years together and then his sorrow was as great for the loss of him as he took delight and contentment in the enjoyment of him It is the greatness of our affections Woodw Childs Patrim as one well observeth that causeth the greatness of our afflictions They that love too much will always grieve too much It is good for Parents so to delight themselves in their children as that they could be ready and willing to part with them and then with Job they will bless God not onely for giving them but also for taking them away He was a wise Heathen that said I kiss my childe to day and then I think it may be dead to morrow Love your children only as creatures and let not the Mothers childe be the Mothers God nor the Fathers son be the Fathers Idol Eli honoured his sons more then God therefore God said there should not be an old man in his house for ever 1 Sam. 2.30 31 32 33 34. and all the increase of his house should dye in the flower of his age and this should be a sign unto him that his twosons Hophni and Phinehas should both of them dye in one day Let Parents imitate those that brought their little children unto Christ that he might touch them and bless them Let them bring their children to Christ and offer them to God 1. Luke 18.15 By prayer for his blessing upon them Thus Abraham prayed even for Ishmael Gen. 17.18 There 's no question but Job prayed as well as offered sacrifice for his children lest they might forget themselves and offend God in their feastings This must be a daily duty of Parents and continued act so long as they and their children live upon earth 2. They are to be offered to God by Baptism in the face of the congregation so soon as conveniently they may If a Father knew he had some special friend that had cast his love and affection upon some one of his children in such sort as he meant to adopt him and make him his heir he would be careful that he should be trained up according to his directions Now faithful Parents must know and believe that God is the God of them and their seed and therefore having made his covenant with them they should earnestly desire to have the seal of it I know that Baptism doth not confer grace ex opere operato as a Kings Letters under the broad-seal do not give a pardon to a malefactor Non profuit ei visibilis Baptismus quia defuit invisibilis spiritus sanctus August but only signifie that it 's the Kings pleasure to afford him that favour as also that all that are baptized shall not be saved as Austin speaks of Simon Magus The outward Baptism did not profit him because the invisible holy Spirit was wanting to him And lastly that it 's not absolutely necessary to salvation but God can save without it as doubtless he did divers Israelitish children dying in the wilderness without circumcision and as was the case of the Thief upon the Cross Valentinian and others However it be not necessary in regard of God yet in respect of us it is both that we may be obedient to his commandment and also to help our weakness 3. They must be brought to

great presumption to arrogate or attribute or assume too much to our selves or rely too much upon our own strength for if we be left never so little while to stand upon our own feet we slip and slide and fall presently men of this humour be like a company of drunken souldiers who seem very valorous while the wine hath overcome their wits but when they have slept out their surfeit and be come to themselves do oft betake them to flight and think one pair of heels worth two pair of hands The Scripture tells us that the way of man is not in himself and Christ tells us Heu nihil invitis fat quenquam fidere divis Virg. AEneid Opem mihi feras Domine ne scandalizer Chrysost that without him we can do nothing Joh. 15.5 We must not therefore promise any thing of our selves but rather pray that God would direct us in our promises and enable us to perform them It was Peters fault that he did not he should rather have prayed as Chrysostome saith Lord enable me that I may not be offended then rashly have promised I will not be offended We are here assaulted with many temptations sometimes at the right hand by prosperity sometimes at the left hand by adversity sometimes privately sometimes publickly sometime in one sort sometime in another therefore we have need of strength beyond our own and to be strengthned sometimes in our understandings and judgements that we may discern and distinguish between good and evil truth and falshood sometimes in our wills that we may make a right choice according to our understanding and knowledge and sometimes in our affections to teach us to love hate fear c. what and how we ought both for the matter manner and measure Gods children in Scripture are compared to good and fruitful trees now to keep the comparison what is it for a tree to be of a good kind fruitful and planted in a fertile soil unless it be hardy and able to endure and bear out Summers heat that it spill it not and winters frost and cold that it chill and kill it not in like manner unless we be strengthned supported and sustained from above we shall never be able to hold out and bear about the many troubles and trials that will befal us for as our natural life is strengthned and preserved by food and such necessaries as be needful for our bodies so our spiritual life must be maintained by the graces of Gods Spirit as needful and necessary to our souls Briefly we need strengthning that we may be able rightly to use our spiritual armour both defensive and offensive Paulus Jovius as its best for us and appointed to us else as Scanderbeg told one that beg'd his sword it would do him but little good or stand him in small stead because he had not his arm too so we can make but poor use of Gods armour unless we be strengthned by his arm Col. 1.11 with all might according to his glorious power CHAP. 23. Of Pride of Grace and of Humility it self Pride of Grace is when Christians swell and grow big with conceit of their own perfection and in comparison of their grace zeal knowledge conscience and obedience do not stick both to slight and condemn their brethren others are carnal they spiritual others are weak they strong others ignorant they see the truth others are luke-warm themselves zealous professors nay some there are that are proud of humility it self and proud that they are not proud Pride begets diseases out of pretious remedies saith Chrysolgous Mr. Foxe said As I get good by my sins by being made thereby to take the more heed to my waies so I get hurt by my graces Ex remediis generat morbos superbia Chrysolog Serm. 7. by being proud of them Bernard tells us of one who bewailing his own condition said He saw thirty vertues in another whereof he had not one in himself and peradventure saith Bernard of all his thirty he had not one like this mans humility A man truly humble indeed attributeth and arrogateth nothing to himself but ascribes all to God Humilitas dum proditur perditur nor will he willingly lose this jewel of humility by proclaiming he hath found it for it is the greatest pride that may be to be proud of not being proud Every one should see that his heart be not pufft up with spiritual graces for what hast thou that thou hast not received saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 4.7 Thou hast not these graces because by nature thou art better then others for thou art a childe of wrath as well as others Hierome saith of the Lady Paula She was least that she might be greatest by how much more she humbled her self by so much the more by Christ she was exalted Ephes 2.3 Minima fuit ut esset maxima quantò magis se dejociebat tantò magis à Christo sublevabatur latebat non latebat Hieron Caetera vitia in peccatis superbia bonis maximè timenda August ad Dioscor Epist 56. she lay hid and yet she lay not hid other vices in sins but pride is most to be feared in Gods good gifts and graces CHAP. 24. Of the Odiousness of Pride SECT 1. PLato once said of moral vertue that in it self it is so beautiful that could a man see it in its proper colours it would even ravish the eyes of the beholders and make them fall in love with it so I may say of sin and especially of this sin of Pride that it is so ugly that the vilest sinner in the world durst not commit it did he behold the deformity and ugly visage thereof Pride is a sin very odious both to God and man 1. It is very loathsome in the eyes of God it is one of those sins that Solomon sets down to be an abomination to him Prov. 6.16 17. Prov. 16.5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord and if the person be abominable then all the services be abominable God doth not vouchsafe so much as a favourable look towards proud persons though the Lord be high Ps 138.6 yet he hath respect to the lowly but the proud he knoweth a far off he looks upon them with contempt they stand at a great distance from God and God from them Prov. 3.34 surely he scorneth the scorners Whensoever God seeth a proud man he saith Behold mine enemy Isa 66.2 To this man will I look saith God that is poor and of a contrite spirit c. i. e. to the man that is poor in spirit God cannot look above him for there is no superiour to him nor look round about him because there is none that is equal to him Father Son and Holy Ghost are but one God but he looks downwards and the lower and more humble any man is the more the Lord regards him Morlorat in Luc. 1. saith