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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

remember all other things and not know how to return into our selves and to forget the one thing necessary It s good to put many things out of our minds and utterly to forget them so we may remember God and whosoever truly remembreth him may say he hath forgotten nothing Eccl. 12.1 Therefore remember thy Creatour in the daies of thy youth Remember the providences of God and the years of the most High to observe them and improve them for thy good remember the justice of God to keep thee from sin remember the commandments of God to do them the mercy of God to keep thee from despair remember thy sins to mourn and grieve and to be daily humbled for them and Gods mercies to be continually thankful for them remember death that thou maist alwaies be in preparation for it King Philips Page of Macedon Memento Philippe te esse hominem was to sound this every morning in his ears Remember O Philip that thou art but a man the remembrance of these things will never puffe thee up with Pride but alwaies keep thee very humble CHAP. 20. Of Pride of Eloquence ELoquence is an excellent gift wheresoever it is bestowed and for this many heathens have been famous The Athenians exiled Thucydides their Captain General Pronunciatio vita Philosophi debent esse compositae it ought to be like snow coming leisurely not like rain coming down as by buckets Plin. nat hist lib. 7. cap. 30. but after he had written his Chronicle they called him home again wondring at the eloquence of the man Socrates sold one Oration that he made for twenty talents of gold Pliny saith that Cicero's eloquence was the cause that all the Tribes renounced the law Agraria as touching the division of lands among the Commons albeit their greatest maintenance consisted therein he saith that he was the first that was saluted by the name of Pater patriae Father of his country the first that deserved triumph in his long robe and the Laurel garland for his language and calleth him the Father of eloquence and of the Latin tongue Augusto prosluens quae principem deceret eloquentia fuit Tacitus Suetonius saith that in eloquence Augustus Caesar was most excellent and expert and well might he be so for even during his wars he saith he read wrote and declamed every day he would never deliver a speech to his wife or servants but it was premeditated lest it might rusticitatem olere savour of clownishness or gravitate carere want gravity and Caesar the Dictatour in eloquence Philosophi et multo magis Theologi debent verba ponere non projicere et imprimis quaerere non quantum sed quemadmodum dicant Medicus aegros in transitu non curat ergo concionator qui animarum medicus est insistere debet donec auditores condiderit Seneca ad Lucil. Epist 40. either matcht or over-matcht the very best in his time saith Suetonius and Cicero de Oratore saith he giveth place unto none But most of these were pufft up because they had the trumpet at their lips It is better for a man to be dumb then eloquent if humility be not adjoyned thereunto no man can be a good Oratour unless also he be truly good One being askt why he spake so well and lived so ill answered because his words were in his power but not his actions When Calisthenes had made an eloquent Oration in the praise of the Macedonians Alexander not pleased with his person taxeth and disgraceth his action saying the goodness of the cause made him eloquent and any man might have spoken as well of such a subject and therefore to try him bid him to speak ex tempore in their dispraise which when he had likewise done eloquently he took him off and said Before the goodness of the cause now vain-glory and malice made him eloquent And Hierome was wont to say of a Philosopher that he was a vain-glorious creature and a base bond-slave to praise Gloriae animal et popularisaurae mancipium Hieron Doubtless eloquence in it self is much to be desired especially by Ministers this made Paul exhort the Ephesians as to pray for all Saints so for him in particular that utterance might be given unto him Ephes 6.19 that he might open his mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel And although some think that Paul was not eloquent which they would collect from 2 Cor. 10.10 it being only Optimi doctores sunt qui docent faciendo qui magis admiratione digni sunt cum videntur quam cum audiuntur Seneca ad Lucil. Epist 53. as I suppose a slight opinion that that proud Church of Corinth had of him as appeareth by the verses following yet doubtless Paul was extraordinary eloquent as appears in that the Lystrians took him for Mercury the god of eloquence because he was the chief speaker Act. 14.12 also it is evident by his divers Orations in the Acts of the Apostles and by all his Epistles yet such was his humility and so meanly doth he think of himself in this respect that he earnestly begs their prayers that he may speak and speak to the purpose as he ought to speak Echerus bonus Orator nunquam tamen dubitavit nunquam intermisit sed semel incipiebat semel desinebat Seneca When the Holy ghost was poured out on the Apostles on the day of Pentecost they will not be silent when the Spirit hath given them utterance and made them eloquent where there is a head fraught with learning and knowledge and an heart full of devotion there will be a mouth full of instruction as Solomon tells us Prov. 10.11 Prov. 15.7 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life and the lips of the wise disperse knowledge being like Maries pound of Spikenard to persume the whole house John 12.3 or like a candle in a work-mans shop Austin confesseth this to God of his Father that he troubled not himself how he prospered in Gods service only his care was that he might be eloquent and learned to speak well Luke 4.20 22. to give light to all that are in it Our Saviour and John Baptist were very eloquent and powerful Preachers Herod was much affected with Johns preaching Marke 6.20 and the men of Nazareth were much taken with the preaching of Christ their eyes were all sastened on him and wondered at the gracious words that came out of his mouth he taught them as one that had gravity and authority in his speech Mat. 7.29 so powerful were his words that when the Pharisees and chief Priests sent their officers to take Christ they were taken by his words Joh. 7.45 46. and being returned they said unto them Why have ye not brought him The officers answered Never man spake like this man Many by nature and Art have Gratiam verborum Grace of words but want verba gratiae words of Grace

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

and Lycurgus as temperate as Socrates or Cato as just as Aristides as valiant as Alexander the great or Julius Caesar if pride be joyned with it it spoileth all yea Bernard saith Petrac de remed utriusquè fortunae that if pride had been joyned with Maries virginity it would have tainted it and Petrarch saith that though a man were virtutum omnium alis evectus lifted upon the wings of all vertues yet sola superbia bona omnia corrumperet pride alone would spoil all the good gifts of God and make them of little account 2. Pride threatens the decay of grace no grace can lodge and flourish in a proud heart God giveth grace to the humble but takes it away from the proud Ut superbia est orige omnium criminum ita ruina cunctarum virtutum Hect. Pintus in Ezek. 15. Superbus instar inanis rami se erigit in sublime nòn animae utilitatèm quaerens sed vanitatem Hector Pintus in Ezek. cap. 2. One observeth that pride is the greatest thief in the world for whereas covetousness takes away pity to the poor luxury chastity and anger patience c. Pride takes away humility which is the root and foundation of all graces great spoils doth the devil carry away from the field of pride that he careth not what a man have so he can make him proud A proud man with all grace if that were possible is worse then an humble man with all sin if it were possible saith Chrysostome according to the measure of humility is the measure of other grace in the heart humility empties the soul for God to fill it it empties it of temporal things and then it must needs be filled with spiritual blessings the Church is Lilium convallium a lilly of the vallies The showers of heaven run from the lofty mountains into the low vallies Humilitas intelligentiae lumen aperit superbia operit Gregor soaking them and making them very fruitful the mountains are dry hard barren cold full of dangerous precipices so the proud are full of the dryness of indevotion their hearts are hardened they are barren and unfruitful in good works they are subject to the precipices of sin and destruction they have no soakings from the Spirit of God and therefore are in a withering and decaying condition a proud heart is a cold and dead heart the mountains of Gilboa are accursed but blessed are the poor in spirit Matth. Humilitas cordis humani receptaculum gratiae Divinae Bernard 5.3 The humble man is a valley sweetly planted and watered saith Dr. Hall he is watered with constant dews from heaven his heart is made tender by the Word as Josiahs was he is fruitful in every grace and good work A proud heart pufft up with self-conceitedness of grace and goodness enough though it have none can receive none proud men are like the Cedars that are high fair and flourishing but never bearing fruit God gives good graces and the devil layeth in wait to destroy them Aug. ad Monach. Humility opens the eye of the understanding pride puts a vail upon it The humility of mans heart is the receptacle of Gods grace saith devout Bernard and Macarius saith it will make a man even spiritually covetous of the graces of gods Spirit wherein the richer we are the poorer we shall seem to our selves and the more we have already the more we shall still desire which is a commendable covetousness Matth. 5.6 as our Saviour assureth us Pride is a sin that doth expose the soul to a dreadful curse from God Ps 119.21 Thou hast rebuked the proud which are cursed saith David which do erre from thy Law pride makes men erre from Gods commandements and this pulleth down a curse upon them The world calls the proud happy Malach. 3.17 but God saith they are cursed so that they become like the barren fig-tree cursed by our Saviour and then no fruit is to be found upon them any more It is reported of one Dydimus that he should make this answer to one Alexander a Jewish Priest desiring some grace for a fashion at least Non habes vas quo recipias God is ready to bestow it upon thee but thou hast not where to receive and keep it 3. Pride bereaves a man of all true peace and comfort no true peace can lodge in a proud heart for every proud man is at defiance with God and how can that man have peace in himself that is at war with God learn of me saith Christ to be meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest to your souls therefore peace and rest cannot be to the proud in heart A proud man like the clouds is tost with every blast and tempest he hath no rest in his windy spirit his heart is still in fear he is like a wave of the sea tossed to and fro Pride cuts off the comforts of the soul he that walks most humbly walks most comfortably as God dwells with humble souls so when they lie low before him Isa 57.15 and are even dead to sense God will revive the spirit of the humble pride and vain-glory are spiritual spiders if they enter into our hearts and we do not hunt them out again as the Bees do the corporal spiders out of their hives we shall soon see the store-house of our conscience to be much troubled and perplexed I have read of Bernard having preacht an eloquent sermon at a great festival Sicut de fonte terreno de corporali fluvio non potest aliquis bibere nisi voluerit se inclinare ita de vivo fonte Christo sancti spiritus fluvio nemo aquam vivam haurire poterit nisi se humiliter inclinare voluerit propter illud quod scriptum est Deus superbis resistit Caesarius hom 30. before a great concourse of people the people extol him but he walketh very dejectedly the next day he preacheth a very powerful Sermon plain and full of profitable matter his sincere hearers went away satisfied but those that before applauded him were dumb and silent but himself was much cheered in spirit and being askt why he was so sad when he was so much admired and so pleasant when not applauded he returned this answer Heri Bernardum hodie Christum praedicavi yesterday I preached Bernard and to day I preacht Jesus Christ those Ministers and people shall have most comfort that are most sincere and most humble 4. Pride bereaves a man of God himself which is the chiefest good Dolium nisi undique sit pice illitum nullas habeat ruinas vinum non potest continere sic cor nisi humilitate muniatur nullas habeat vitiorum ruinas Dei non potest esse domicilium Sanct. Isaias Abbas orat 12. de vino Invidia aufert mihi proximum ira meipsum superbia Deum Hugo de S. Victore God is said to dwell with the humble Though