.. I 8'4 The Neceifity and Advantage· who are every n1on1ent ready to return ihto - it ag~in, and have nothing of their own but folly, and tnifery, and ·ftn; to fee fu~n . creatur-es, l fay, either, fo bli-nd as to value the1nfelves, or 1o unreafonable as. to de!ii·e others to value then1. Good n1en n1u{r needs hate u~ for it, becaufe God doth .fo_; and evil1nen hate us for it, becaufe they are proud tpemfelvcs, and fo are jealous of . the atten1pts of others io exalt then1fdves, as of that whieh-tendeth to deprefs and di:.. miniih them.. Pride alone is the fource and fountaii1 of afn1ofi all the dtforders in the world; ·of all our troubles, and of aii cur fins: ai1cJ we ihalt never be truly hap.- . py, o~ truly good, tiU we con1e to think nothing of ourfelvcs, and· be content that. .. all" the worJd thint< nothing_of us. Now, there i·s nothing hath a more natural ten:– den~y to fon1ent an~ heighten this natural corruption, than confi'ant profperi:ty and. fuccefs. The ·Pfa!1nift, fpeaking of the profperity of the wicked who are not in troubles as.others, neither are they plauged , fike other men, prefen~ly fub}oi'n .eth the effeet, Therefore pride c:ompq/feth therh about as a chain*· Sanctified a:fHictions conu}– bule to abate and n1o.rti.fy the pride of our hearts, * rr.I 1 · ··· 6 ~a, xxm. •
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