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<HEAD>A Sea&s;onable and Chri&s;tian Caution Again&s;t the Provoking Sin of <HI>PRIDE</HI> and other manife&s;t <HI>Evils,</HI> and of the JUDGEMENTS threatned becau&s;e thereof, <HI>Compa&s;&s;ionately tendered to the Inhabitants of</HI> LONDON, <HI>and el&s;ewhere Concerned, as a Warning to</HI> REPENTANCE.</HEAD>
<P N="1">I. MY Soul with many others having been often bowed down under a deep &s;ence and burthen of the Impenitence, hard|ne&s;s of Heart, Un&s;en&s;iblene&s;s, <HI>Pride</HI> and Pre&s;umption abounding in this City of <HI>London</HI> and Nation of <HI>England;</HI> and being &s;en&s;ible the great God is thereby highly offended, and pro|voked to Anger, and that even the Nation is in great Danger, deeply to &s;uffer by the Sins of the People, and the great abu&s;e of the Mercies of God: I Con&s;idered what Method I might u&s;e to per&s;uade this People (profe&s;&s;ing <HI>Chri&s;tianity</HI> and the Holy Scriptures to be their Rule of Life, <HI>&amp;c.)</HI> to be a&s;hamed of this Reigning Sin of <HI>Pride;</HI> whereupon in the Sence of the Love of God, and in great compa&s;&s;ion to this City and Nation, I &s;aid in my Heart (as the Matter truly opened) Let us try them with the Holy Scripture Te&s;timonies, and let none be angry nor offended thereat, but take warning and &s;peedily Repent; For if they will not hear <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and the <HI>Prophets,</HI> nor regard the Com|mands or Te&s;timonies of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, or his Holy Apo&s;tles (when duly applyed) <HI>Neither will they hear if one &s;hould ri&s;e from the Dead to warn them.</HI></P>
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<ITEM>1. <Q>It is the wicked that is &s;o proud that he &s;eeketh not after God.</Q> <BIBL>P&s;al. 10. 4.</BIBL> And what then will be the Judgement of &s;uch? <Q>The Lord will Cut off them that are turned back from him, and tho&s;e that have not &s;ought the Lord nor enquired after him.</Q> <BIBL>Zeph. 1. 4, 5, 6.</BIBL></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Who is King over the Children of Pride, but the <HI>Wicked one,</HI> the <HI>Devil,</HI> the <HI>Old Crooked Serpent,</HI> (Figuratively call'd <HI>Leviathan,</HI> <BIBL>Job 41. 25. I&s;a. 27. 1.</BIBL>) to be &s;ure the Children of Pride are none of God's Children, nor Chri&s;t's Subjects or Followers, but aver&s;e to his Ex|ample of <HI>Humility</HI> and Self-denial.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <Q>The high look of man &s;hall be humbled, and the loftine&s;s of men &s;hall be aba&s;ed, for the day of the Lord of Ho&s;ts is upon all the Proud and haughty, and upon all that is exalted, and it &s;hall be made low:</Q> <BIBL>I&s;a. 2. 11. 12.</BIBL></ITEM>
<ITEM>4. <Q>For behold the day cometh that &s;hall burn as an Oven, and all the Proud, yea all that do wickedly &s;hall be as Stubble, and the day that cometh &s;hall burn them up &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts.</Q> <BIBL>Mal. 4. 1.</BIBL></ITEM>
<ITEM>5. When <Q>Pride cometh then cometh &s;hame, but with the lowly is Wi&s;|dom.</Q> <BIBL>Prov. 11. 2.</BIBL><Q>Pride goeth before de&s;truction, and an high mind before the fall.</Q> <BIBL>Pro. 16. 18.</BIBL><Q>The Lord will de&s;troy the hou&s;e of the Proud man,</Q> <BIBL>Pro. 15. 25. </BIBL><Q>The Pride of a man &s;hall bring him Low, but the humble in Spirit &s;hall enjoy Glory,</Q> <BIBL>Pro. 29. 23.</BIBL></ITEM>
<ITEM>6. <Q>The Lord of Ho&s;ts hath decreed this to &s;tain the Pride of all Glory, and to bring to contempt, all them that be Glorious in the Earth.</Q> <BIBL>I&s;a. 23. 9.</BIBL><Q>Wo to the Crown of Pride, to the Drunkards of <HI>Ephraim,</HI> for his glorious Beauty &s;hall be a fading Flower, which is upon the head of the Valley of them that be fat, and are overcome with Wine.</Q> <BIBL>I&s;a. 28. 1.</BIBL> <Q>They &s;hall be troden under foot even the Crown of the Pride of the Drunkards of</Q> <BIBL>Ephraim. ver. 3.</BIBL></ITEM>
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<P>Now pray ob&s;erve what an apparent Embleme and Mark of the Crown of Pride is now your Womens lofty Head-Tire, their &s;trange Tower|ing and Extravagant Dre&s;&s;es upon their Heads, and how Immode&s;t vain and Antick, thereby many even overtopping the Men? And what a doting, vain and fooli&s;h Humour 'tis in any men to delight to &s;ee their <HI>Wives</HI> or <HI>Chil|dren</HI> go in &s;uch vain, Immode&s;t and Indecent Dre&s;&s;es, and what ill Exam|ples are even many of the Prie&s;ts and Mini&s;ters Wives and Children therein? And what a &s;ad Reproach and Scandal to Religion and the Chri&s;tian Profe&s;&s;ion to &s;ee A&s;&s;emblies for Religious Wor&s;hip, &s;o much filled with abominable Pride in Attire, as with tho&s;e high Towering Dre&s;&s;es, Extravagant and Exce&s;&s;ive Wigs, more for Pride of Orna|ment than Service or Nece&s;&s;ity. And what a fooli&s;h and Effeminate Hu|mour it is in any to affect &s;uch Extravagancy and Exce&s;s in Apparel and vain Ornaments; and how greatly unbecoming Religious A&s;&s;emblies, pretending Wor&s;hip, Fa&s;ting, Prayer, Humiliation, and Repentance.</P>
<P>And for any to excu&s;e their Pride and Immode&s;ty in Apparel, either by pretending that Pride is not in the Apparel, but in the Heart, or that they may wear their Proud &amp; Vain Garbs (their Immode&s;t Lofty and Towering Dre&s;&s;es) and yet not be Proud in Heart: Herein they wrong their own Con&s;ciences, Flatter and deceive them&s;elves in their Pride and Folly; let them but &s;eriou&s;ly look into, impartially &s;earch and Examine their own Hearts and Con&s;ciences with the Light of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> therein, and they'l ea&s;ily &s;ee how that frequently their Minds, Affections, and Hearts have been bu&s;ied and taken up to Imitate and get into the Vain Fa&s;hion, Modes and Habits of Courts and Gentry, Invented in <HI>France</HI> and other Places. And what a &s;hame and di&s;grace it is for <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Prote&s;tants &s;o much to affect the <HI>French</HI> Vain and Immode&s;t Fa&s;hions and Habits, or to be &s;uch Slaves to the Pride of <HI>France,</HI> when they would be Loath to be Slaves to their Power: Oh! take heed how you provoke the great God by your <HI>Pride</HI> and <HI>Exce&s;s,</HI> and do not Flatter your &s;elves. The root of all your Pride in Habit is in your Hearts; and from <HI>Within, Even out of the Heart Proceed evil thoughts Adulteries, Fornications, Murthers, Thefts, Covetou&s;ne&s;s, Wicked|ne&s;s, Deceit, &V;ncleanne&s;s, a Wicked Eye, Backbiting, Pride and Fooli&s;hne&s;s,</HI> Mark. 7. 20, 21, 22, 23. Therefore 'tis a fal&s;e Excu&s;e and contrary to Chri&s;t's Doctrine for any to &s;ay, that Pride or Fooli&s;hne&s;s is not in their Hearts, when 'tis apparent and notorious in their Habits and fooli&s;h Attire.</P>
<P N="2">II. <HI>PRide</HI> in Root and Branch, in Heart and Habit with its Immo|de&s;ty, Vanity and Fooli&s;hne&s;s in Apparel, and the evil Ex|ample thereof, is altogether and expre&s;ly forbidden of God and his Chri&s;t, and directly contrary to the Holy Scriptures.</P>
<P><HI>1st.</HI> How can it con&s;i&s;t either with our Chri&s;tian Profe&s;&s;ion or Mode&s;ty, for any profe&s;&s;ed Chri&s;tians to imitate <HI>Jezebel who Painted her Face, and Ti|red her Head?</HI> 2 Kings 9. 30. or to Re&s;emble the <HI>&s;trange Woman in Harlots Attire?</HI> Prov. 7. 10. a remarkable Character, and di&s;tinct from that of Mode&s;t Women fearing God.</P>
<P><HI>2d.</HI> That of <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 3. Chap. Is very remarkable how highly God was di&s;plea&s;ed with the Haughtine&s;s and <HI>Pride</HI> of <HI>the Daughter of Zion,</HI> among his People <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of old, with their Vanity and Pride in Apparel <HI>&amp;c.</HI> that he both Threatned, and brought &s;evere Judgements upon them, to their great deba&s;ement, contempt and di&s;tre&s;s; in &s;o much that the Lord &s;aid unto <HI>Jeru&s;alem, Thy men &s;hall fall by the Sword, and thy &s;trength in the Battle.</HI> Ver. 8. 25.</P>
<P><HI>Then &s;hall her Gates mourn and Lament; and &s;he being de&s;olate &s;hall &s;it upon the ground.</HI> ver. 26. Their Pride and Rebellion was the cau&s;e of &s;uch their Calamity and Deba&s;ement: Becau&s;e <HI>the Daughters of</HI> Zion <HI>are Haughty,</HI> &amp;c. ver. 16. And when the Prophet foretold God's Judgement upon Jeru&s;a|lem, and how he would <HI>di&s;tre&s;s Ariel,</HI> and what <HI>heavine&s;s and &s;orrow</HI> &s;hould be: He al&s;o &s;aid, <HI>Thou &s;halt be brought down,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Thou &s;halt be vi&s;ited of the Lord of Ho&s;ts with Thunder and with Earth-Quakes,</HI> &amp;c. I&s;a. 29. Oh why are &s;uch Ominous Signes, and &s;uch eminent Threatning Vi&s;its from the Lord of Ho&s;ts, (even in our days) no more taken notice of, con&s;idered or laid to Heart by many?</P>
<P><HI>3d.</HI> Tremble, O Earth (Oh Inhabitants of the Earth) at the pre|&s;ence of the Lord God: Fear and tremble Oh! all <HI>Proud fle&s;h</HI> at the pre&s;ence of the God of <HI>Jacob;</HI> Oh be aba&s;ed and humbled before the Great and Terrible God, ca&s;t off thy co&s;tly Ornaments, and Proud At|tire, and &s;it down in the Du&s;t; Mourn and Lament, and Bewail thy &s;elf, and Repent as in Du&s;t and A&s;hes, becau&s;e of thy abominable <HI>Pride;</HI> many and great Provocations again&s;t the Lord of Ho&s;ts, who&s;e terrible day ap|proacheth. When the Lord threatned to Cut off <HI>Idolaters and back&s;liders that turned back from the Lord, and tho&s;e that have not &s;ought the Lord nor in|quired after him.</HI> Zeph. 1. 4, 5, 6. He al&s;o Threatned, &s;aying, <HI>And it &s;hall be in the day of the Lord's Sacrifice, that I will vi&s;it the Princes and the Kings Children, and all &s;uch as are Cloathed with &s;trange Apparel,</HI> Zeph. 1. 8. And was there ever any Age or Nation that exceeded this of Our's in <HI>Strangene&s;s</HI> and folly in Apparel?</P>
<P><HI>4th.</HI> And when <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> and the Daughter of <HI>Zion</HI> were Warned of their Calamities, Mi&s;ery and De&s;truction, becau&s;e of their Pride, Wick|edne&s;s and Abominations, it was declared unto them. <HI>And when thou &s;halt be de&s;troyed what wilt thou do? Though thou Cloathe&s;t thy &s;elf with Scarlet, tho' thou decke&s;t thee with Ornaments of Gold, tho' thou Painte&s;t thy Face with Co|lours, yet &s;halt thou Trim thy &s;elf in vain,</HI> &amp;c. Jer. 4. 30.</P>
<P><HI>5th.</HI> And now &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider the Holy Apo&s;tles Exhortation and Coun&s;el in this Ca&s;e. 1 Tim. 2. 9, 10. <HI>In like manner al&s;o, that women adorn them&s;elves in mode&s;t Apparel, with &s;hame-facedne&s;s and Sobriety, not with broi|dered Hair, or Gold or Pearls, or co&s;tly Array,</HI> But which <HI>Becometh Women Profe&s;&s;ing Godline&s;s with good Works.</HI> The like al&s;o, in 1 Pet&punc; 3 3, 4, 5. <HI>Who&s;e Adorning let it not be that outward adorning of Plaiting the Hair, wearing of Gold, or putting on of Apparel, But let it be the hidden man of the Heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit, which is in the &s;ight of God of great Price. For after this manner in the old Time, the holy Women al&s;o who tru&s;ted in God, adorned them&s;elves, being in &s;ubjection unto their own Husbands.</HI> They did not Adorne them&s;elves with high Heads and Towering Dre&s;&s;es, nor with Spotted or Painted Faces, nor with Foo|li&s;h or Immode&s;t Attire; which things among profe&s;t Chri&s;tians are no &s;mall Scandal and Reproach to Religion and Chri&s;tianity, but again&s;t the Honour and Intere&s;t thereof, and to the great di&s;honour of God, and his dear Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t: for which all &s;uch kind of Chri&s;tians (as are thus guilty of this Horrible Souls &s;inking &s;in of <HI>Pride)</HI> are accountable.</P>
<P>And you that are Parents be Examples of Humility and Chri&s;tianity, and <HI>bring up your Children in the Nurture, In&s;truction and Admonition of the Lord,</HI> Ephe&s;. 6. 4. and not in Pride and Vanity&punc; in Apparel, nor in Mu&s;ick and Dancing to expo&s;e them to Lightne&s;s, Wantonne&s;s, Temptation and Ruine, as too too many do; for which they are greatly chargeable with the &s;ins of their Children, and have a heavy Account to give to the Righ|teous God, for being acce&s;&s;ary to their Ruine and De&s;truction.</P>
<P>Oh Inhabitants of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> who are concerned in this pro|voking &s;in of <HI>Pride,</HI> Exce&s;s, and Fooli&s;hne&s;s, return to the Light of Chri&s;t, his Grace and Truth in you, and humble your &s;elves under the mighty hand of God, and break off your Sins by true and unfeigned Repentance, that you may find mercy in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and for his &s;ake; That God in Compa&s;&s;ion may turne away his Wrath, and avert his Judgements threatned and impending over the&s;e Nations.</P>
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