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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

words 1 Tim. 6.3 4 5. Costui è gonfiato di superbia non sapendo nulla ma essendo stolto intorno à le questioni Ital. even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godliness he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions aad strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmisings perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness Such men as these may think themselves the only Gnosticks and knowing men but such a one is proud knowing nothing when men make use of their knowledge in a way of opposition and so make themselves and others Scepticks in religion this is a knowledge or science falsly so called ver 20. O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding prophane and vain bablings and oppositions of science falsly so called this keeps men off the further from embracing the truth and being setled in it 2. From this root it is that many men sinfully cry down Magistracy and Ministry many such there are in our daies but these men do not act without a precedent Num. 16. Korah and his accomplices have shewed them the way I know nothing that more crosseth Satan in his design then a good Magistracy and a faithful Ministry and therefore 't is no wonder if by his instruments he labour first to corrupt them then to disparage them and alienate the people from them and so to ruine them and then they would set up themselves in their places who thus impudently cry down these two great Ordinances of Magistracy and Ministry 1. That Korah and his company aymed at the Priest-hood appeareth by Moses upbraiding them Num. 16.9 10. Seemeth it a small thing to you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the Tabernacle of the Lord c. and seek ye the Priesthood also as if he should have said is it not enough that God hath advanced you above thousands of your brethren but that ye will have the Priest-hood also This was the design of the Kohathites What is Korahs plea The people are all holy what need then any one to teach or offer sacrifice they can all teach themselves say our Church levellers the Church are all Saints and they all know the Lord from the greatest to the least Whereas Christ hath given some Apostles to his Church some Prophets some Evangelists Ephes 4.11 12 13 14. and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministery for the edifying of the body of Christ c. where we may observe 1. That Pastors and Teachers are as truly a gift to the Church of Christ as Apostles and Prophets though much inferiour to them yet they are more constantly continued to the Church then the former 2. These were given to the Church not only by laying the ground-work to bring men home to Christ but also to edifie the body of Christ and to bring it to it 's just perfection till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ for till we come to be grown up in Christ we have need of the Ministry 3. This is a great means to prevent childishness of spirit which many nowadays are subject to being tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine Now from this pride of heart it is that men so much slight the ministry those whose hearts are full of pride do lift up themselves against Gods messengers and the high conceit that men have of their own gifts and parts makes them slight that ministry that God hath appointed for the salvation of their souls Thus it was with the proud Corinthians whom Paul upbraids by an Irony 1 Cor. 4.8 Now ye are full now ye are rich ye have reigned as Kings without us and I would to God ye did reign that we also might reign with you 1. Now ye are full full without us so full that they had no appetite to any more no mind to any meat set before them so fill'd were they with gifts and parts that they had no mind to Pauls ministry 2. Now ye are rich so rich that they could impart to others and even teach their teachers rich without us 3. Ye have reigned as Kings without us as great difference between them as between King and Subjects Voi havete conseguito il regno senza voi ye have gotten a Kingdom without us Hal. 1 Cor. 3.1 2. proud men do ever carry a Kingdom in their heads and then he speaks by way of Emphasis now or already he could not speak unto them as to men but as to babes that were fed with milk not with meat they were not past the spoon yet were they so full so rich so high in their own conceit that they needed not Pauls ministry nor any further teaching from him 2. It is evident that Korah his companions aimed not only at the Priest-hood but also at the Scepter Num. 16.13 for Dathan and Abiram said unto Moses Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us out of a land that sloweth with milk and hony to kill us in the wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a Prince over us Wilt thou put out the eyes of these men Now what was the fair vizard that they put upon so foul a face 1. They pretend to be great enemies to ambition they say to Moses and Aaron ye take too much upon you This pretext would quickly take when they made themselves Tribunes of the people and chamoions for their spiritual liberties Torshel why lift you up your selves against the congregation of the Lord ver 3. 2. They cry up the people they were an holy people all the congregation are holy every one of them here then is the inference No need of a Magistracy they are a holy people that have the Lord to govern them and a holy people that know how to govern themselves 3. They charge them for taking too much upon them whereas they took no more then God had given them and for lifting up themselves above the congregation when God had thus advanced them Exod. 4.10 11 12. yea Moses was very backwards to take a commission from God and after he had it complaineth of his burden Num. 11.11 Now these men pretended to rise up against Moses and Aaron but Moses tells them that they were gathered together against the Lord Numb 16.11 when God by his providence placeth men in the Magistracy and Ministry and they act faithfully in their places those that band against them do rise up against the God of heaven whose right it is to pull down one and set up another therefore when such as these are

persons who should have the highest place in heaven where shall be no pride ambition nor emulation yet he saith it was a greater fault for them only to seek and strive to be great on earth scarce ever thinking of heaven from this root it was that the Corinthians ran into Schisms and parties one was for Paul another for Apollos a third for Cephas a fourth is above all Ordinances and Ministers he is for Christ himself 1 Cor. 4.6 Concord on earth is Gods musick in heaven Now saith the Apostle These things brethren In have transferred in a figure to my self and to Apollo for your sakes that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written that no one of you be puffed up for one against another they were pufft up like bladders full of wind while these divisions were among them 6. From this root of pride it is that men do blaspheme the truths of God that are cleerly laid down in the Word The Pope blasphemously arrogateth to himself one of Gods peculiar prerogatives for so saith the wisdom of God Prov. 4. By me Kings raign which he usurpeth Ecce nos constituti sumus super gentes regna Bulla Pii Quinti pontific these three sins are joyned together Boasters Proud Blasphemers 2 Tim. 3.2 and ver 5. having a form of godliness but denying the power of it this is to be referred to all that went before men shall be lovers of their own selves having a form of godliness covetous having a form of godliness boasters proud blasphemers having a form of godliness c. the two first make way for the last when men are boasters ascribing that to themselves which they have not and conceit that they are of higher parts and gifts then they are then they are proud and shew their pride when they appear in their own eyes and in the eyes of others bigger then they are the opinion of others more holy and more judicious then themselves they regard not that at last they come to be blasphemers When men will believe no more then what they see reason for at last they come to blaspheme those truths that they first owned hence arise all those gross blasphemies that are among us The Socinians deny the Trinity reason cannot comprehend this mystery therefore they set their wits a work to deflour Scripture and the union of the divine and humane natures in the person of the Son of God because it is cross to reason therefore they blaspheme this truth Christ saith Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me now they will not believe it because they cannot comprehend it and then God leaves them to their own reason and the pride of their own hearts to blaspheme those high and sacred truths which they should embrace 7. Superbus ac saevus dominus qui serviisse patrem suum parum meminit Plin. Pride is the root of cruelty towards others and this may be seen commonly in those that have risen from a mean to an high estate in the world that they have soon forgotten the rock from whence they were hewen and have proved very proud and supercilious as Pliny saith of Largius the Lacedemonian that he was a haughty and cruel Master and one that forgat his father to have been a servant We have a Proverb Set a begger on horseback and he will ride a gallop to set a man of low degree in high place 't is like strong drink to a weak head Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum it will make him giddy well did Agur reckon this among the things which disquiet the earth which the earth could not bear a servant when he reigneth and an hand-maid heire to her mistress Prov. 30.22 23. A proud and cruel wretch was one Messala a Proconsul of Asia under Augustus the Emperour Seneca lib. 2 de iracap 5. of whom Seneca saith that having beheaded three hundred men in one day he strutted among their dead corpses applauding himself and crying out O rem regiam O royal and Kingly deed Seneca likewise reporteth of Cneius Piso a proud Theodorus Tutor to Tiberius foretold the cruel disposition of his scholar calling him often Clay soaked in blood Suetonius mad-brain'd and hasty General of the Roman army that having made a law that if two men went from his camp together and returned single he that came without his fellow should be slain presupposing and presuming that he had slain his fellow it fell out that two of his souldiers went out in a dark night one upon some occasion being parted from the other they could not find one another again whereupon he commanded him that was returned without his fellow to be slain and gave order to his Centurion to see the execution which which they are going about Seneca lib. de ira c. 16 the other cometh and sheweth himself safe whereupon the Centurion staid the execution and carried him to Piso to plead his innocency and beg his pardon which he would by no means grant but caused them all three to be executed Periere tres ob unius innocentiam et tria crimina fecit quia nullam invenit Sen. de ira the first because he was condemned and he would not revoke or reverse his sentence the second because he gave occasion that his fellow was condemned and the Centurion for not executing his Generals commands which gave occasion to Seneca to say upon that cruel act Three perished for the innocency of one and three crimes he committed because he found not any Sueton in vit Calig Caligula boasted how many men he had condemned and seen executed while the Empress his wife fetcht a nap in an afternoon he commended in his own nature nothing more or almost so much as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to use his own word unremoveable rigour he it was that wisht the people of Rome had but one neck that he might cut them off at one blow But the judgements of God have often surprized proud and cruel Tyrants Procopius tells us of one Theodorick sometime King of the Gothes that in his pride having villanously slain two Noble Romans Symmachus Boetius Procopius lib. 1 de bello Gothico that bloody deed was still boiling in his heart and the thoughts of it would give him no rest nor suffer him to be quiet and one time having a fishes head set upon his table among other dishes he presently conceiteth it to be the head of one of them the eyes his eyes the teeth his teeth Theodoret tells us that a certain Christian Captain was so bold with Valens the Emperour as to tell him that he was unfortunate in his wars because of his pride and cruelty and some notorious abuses offered to Gods Messengers and Ministers Theodoret Eccles hist lib. 4. and so falling into a fit of frenzy he died destracted of his wits So