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.
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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.
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Gearing, William.
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London, :: Printed by R. White, for Francis Tyton, and are to be sold at the three Daggers in Fleetstreet, near the Inner Temple gate,
1600.
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Pride and vanity -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85881.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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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 per∣fection, and in comparison of their grace, zeal, knowledge, conscience and obedience, do not stick both to slight and condemn their bre∣thren: 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,
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,
nor will he willingly lose this jewel of humility by pro∣claiming he hath found it; for it is the great∣est
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pride that may be, to be proud of not be∣ing 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.
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;
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.
Notes
Ex remediis generat morbos superbia. Chry∣solog. Serm. 7.
Ephes. 2.3. Minima fuit ut esset maxima; quantò ma∣gis se de∣jociebat, tantò magis à Christo sublevabatur; latebat & non latebat. Hieron. Caetera vitia in peccatis, superbia bonis maximè timenda. August. ad Dioscor. Epist. 56.