A hedgerovv of busshes, brambles, and briers: or, A fielde full of tares, thistles and tine of the vanities and vaine delightes of this worlde, leading the way to eternall damnation: with seuerall exhortations or cauiats for the carelesse to shun and beware the same. Now newly compiled by I.D.

OF PRIDE AND Proude-men.

PRIDE is hatefull before God and man.

Why is earth and ashes proude, seeing that when a man dyeth he is the heire of Ser∣pentes, beastes, and wormes.

The beginning of mans pride, is to fall away from God, and to turne away his hart from his maker.

Pride is the originall of Sinne, and he that hath it, shall powre out abhomination, tyll at last he be ouerthrowen: therfore the Lord bringeth the perswasion of the wicked to dishonour, and de∣stroyeth them.

Pride was not created in man.

The wicked with pride, doth persecute the poore: Let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

The wicked is so proude, that he seeketh not for God: he thinketh alwayes, There is no God.

The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spread a net with cordes in my path-way, and set grinnes for me.

The Lord cut off all flattering lyppes: and the tongue that speaketh proude thinges.

Lord, mine hart is not hautie, neither are mine eyes loftie: neither haue I walked in matters hid from me.

Let not the foote of pride come against me: and let not the hand of the wicked men moue me.

Mockerie and reproch folow the proude: and vengeance lurketh for them as a Lyon.

The proude man is as he that transgresseth by wine: therfore shall he not endure, because he hath enlarged his desire as the hell, and is as death, and can not be satisfied, but gathereth vnto him all na∣tions, and heapeth vnto him all people.

The high looke of man shalbe humbled, and the loftines of men shalbe abased; and the Lord onely shalbe exalted.

For the day of the Lord of hostes is vpon all the proude and hautie, and vpon all that is exalted, and it shalbe made low.

We haue heard the pride of Moab (he is excee∣ding proud) his stoutnesse, and his arrogancie, and his pride, and the hautinesse of his hart.

A hautie looke, and a proude hatt, which is the lyght of the wicked, is sinne.

Proude, hautie, and scornefull, is his name, that worketh in his arrogancie wrath.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an high

minde, before the fall.

When pride commeth, then commeth shame: but with the lowlie is wisedome.

The pride of a man shall bring him low: but the humble in spirit shall enioy glory.

Notes

• Eccle. 10, 7, 12, 13, 14.19
• Psal. 10, 2, 4.
• Psal. 140, 5.
• Psal. 12, 3.
• Psal. 131, 1.
• Psal. 36, 11.
• Ecclu. 27, 28
• Haba. 2, 5.
• Esa. 11, 11, 12.
• Ier. 48, 29.
• Pro. 21, 4.24
• Pro. 16.18.
• Pro. 11, 2.
• Pro. 29, 23.