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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47029	A sermon preached at Christ-Church, London, November the 2d, 1690 by David Jones ...	Jones, David, 1663-1724?	1690 (1690)	Wing J937; ESTC R31545	18,632	40

therefore he makes himself such a Visard as prevents all Blushes and defends him from all visible signs of Concern at Reproof And from seeing the pride of his Looks let 's hear the haughtiness of his Words Which proceeding from the abundance of his heart discover more of his high Mind And truly a proud Man's Language does usually run in a very high and lofty stile His Tongue is his own and none is Lord over it His Tongue is double and that makes him take himself for somewhat more than one Man at least it makes him personate that Creature with the forked Tongue which in the very infancy of the World when it had yet scarce spoke one word disdained to talk of ought else but an Equality with the most High And truly its Viperous brood has ever since retained the poison of Asps under its Lips and its big swelling Words represent the largeness of the throat they come from an open Sepulchre they represent the abundance of that Heart that 's like the troubled Sea swell'd to a prodigious greatness Take but an instance or two of it and you 'll all be quickly masters of it if you are yet to learn it If a proud Saul have ought to say to David he presently calls for the Son of Jesse and scorns to call him by his own Name And Potiphar's Wife says of Joseph This Hebrew Servant and the Sodomites of Lot This one fellow that came in to sojourn and Christ's own Countrymen say of him Is not this the Carpenters Son as if none of all three had been so much as once worth the Naming But alas these are but mean instances to what follow and nothing in comparison to what a Proud Pharaoh or a Blasphemous Rabshekah can belch forth upon occasion For says the one Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go And the other says Hath any of the gods of the Nation delivered his Land out of the hand of the King of Assyria Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad Where are the gods of Sepharvaim Hena and Iva Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand Who are they among all the gods of the Countrys that have delivered their Country out of mine hand that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand And thus I have given you a word or two of the proud Man's Language And from hence let 's take one step more and view him in the general Course of his Life which will give us some farther discovery of his high Mind And here we shall find that he cares not what becomes of all others he cares not what difficulties they grapple with what Poverty they are reduced to and what hard shifts they are forced to make so he may have but his humor and huff and hector it without control which is a certain sign that he is so proud that he never thinks other Men to be flesh of his flesh or bone of his bone or else he would be as tender of and as respectful to them as he is to himself And that 's the first part of the Proud Man's Character he is high-minded and has a proud look And the Second's this He does exercise himself in great matters that are two high for him And this is done when a Man lives above his Ability Condition or Calling and is usually seen by the excess of Diet the excess of Building the keeping too great a Retinue the coveting of great Men's Company and the excess of Apparel But alas these are not the only instances wherein a Proud Man does exercise himself in such matters as are too high for him No 't were well if they 'd keep themselves within this compass 'T were well if they stretched not themselves much further beyond their Line and beyond their measure He 's no Man now a-days that cannot order State Affairs new model Churches control the Priest despise Dominion speak evil of Dignities and judge of what is and what is not judge of those things that he never knew nor saw nor heard nor scarce dream'd of For what so common as to have an ordinary Man discuss such things as Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard nor have entred into his heart to conceive What so common as to have the same Man discourse of Mysteries dive into Abysses and fathom the unsearchable depths of God's eternal Decrees and pity the ignorance of all such as are not exactly of his Perswasion What so common as to have most Men accuse God's Providence quarrel at his unequal Distribution of things deny Him the disposal of earthly Kingdoms and force him to be an idle spectator of humane Affairs And what 's this but to snatch the Scepter out of his hands to de-throne Omnipotence to prefer their own Wisdom before God's and to pretend to govern the World better than Omniscience And if this be not to exercise ones self in great matters that are too high for him If this be not the heigth of Pride I am sure it is not to refrain his Soul and to keep it low like a weaned Child Which is the Third part of the Proud Man's Character For a Child does wholly resign himself to his Father's Care casts all his Care upon him and cares neither for Meat nor for Drink nor for Cloathing cares for nothing but to please him A Child does never call his Father's will into question never disputes his Commands never contradicts his pleasure but comes and goes and does all things as he would have him A Child knows no difference betwixt himself and his Servant has nothing in his Looks but a pretty innocent smile and if any thing ails him he creeps as fast as he can into his Mother's Bosom And how unlike a Proud Man is to a Child in these and all things else but Understanding needs no farther Proof And thus I have endeavoured to shew the Proud Man to himself as through a Glass darkly and I do heartily pray to God that now he has beheld himself in it he does not play the Natural go his way and presently forget what manner of man he is Jam. i. 24 And now the Proud Man sees his Disease what remains but that I prescribe him two or three short Rules how to Cure it And First of all Let him consider the Punishment that attends it for says Solomon Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall Prov. xvi 8 And again Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord though hand join in hand yet shall they not be unpunished Prov. xvi 5 The Decree it seems is unalterable all the Wit and Art and Strength of the whole World cannot save him he shall not go unpunished For if the Angels themselves could not escape Hell for their Pride how then can Man expect to fare any better Secondly Let him often reflect upon the Question that wicked men put to themselves Wisdom v. 8 9. What hath pride profited us or what good hath Riches with our vaunting brought us All those things are passed away like a shadow and as a post that hasted by For vers 14. The hope of the Vngodly is like dust that is blown away with the wind like a thin froth that is driven away with the storm like as the smoak that is dispersed here and there with a tempest and passeth away as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but for a day Lastly Let him consider from what he was at first taken and into what he must at last be reduced his Primitive Dust and Ashes and then he will have no need to brag of his Extraction Let him consider that the best of men can claim nought else but Corruption for their Mother and then again let him see what cause he has to boast of his Blood and his Ancestors and I know not what Sure I am he 'll find no difference betwixt himself and the poorest Beggar that comes to his Door But he 'll find his Skin to be as good as his own though his Coat be worse He 'll find his Breath as sweet as his own though his Fare be Courser And he 'll find his Sleep to be as sweet and as easie as his own though his Bed be much harder Both their Makes are the same and the same essential Ingredients conspire in both their Constitutions and they differ in nothing from each other but in some few little trifling Accidents of Time Place Colour Stature Fortune and the like in which they differ as much from themselves in the several Periods of their Age. And though indeed there be some little difference betwixt the Rich and Poor in this World and though God hath said unto some Ye are Gods yet he presently tells them in the next verse But ye shall die like Men Psal lxxxij 6 7. And then the difference will be seen and felt and smarted for to the Proud Man's eternal Sorrow when all his proud Looks and his haughty Words shall be turn'd into howling and wailing and weeping and gnashing of Teeth Then the difference betwixt a Dives and a Lazarus shall be openly proclaim'd when Devils shall drag the one into Hell and Angels shall convey the other into Abraham's Bosom And now Go to thou Rich and Proud be as high-minded as thou wilt But know thou that for all these things God will certainly bring thee to judgment and thou shalt feel a judgment worthy of God Wisdom xij 26 Consider seriously of what I have said without all prejudice and partiality and the Lord of his infinite Mercy grant that both you and I may so lay it to Heart as to live accordingly Amen Lord Jesus Amen and Amen! Blessing and Honour and Thanksgiving and Praise more than we can utter more than we conceive be unto thee O most adorable Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost by all Angels all Men all Creatures and by us the Vilest of all thy Creatures Amen and Amen! FINIS ERRATA PAge 6. l. 16. read brings me p. 9. l. 9. r. that is before the foregoing words p. 16. l. 6. r. Agur's p. 23. l. 13. r. and then p. 30. l. 5. dele as