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A67759	The impartial monitor: about following the fashions. Or The sweet fruit of sharp reprehension in a rare example, of one that (by another's pen) cured his wife of her costlinesse. Imprimatur, Edmund Calamie. Books (well chosen) are the best recreation, best company, best cheer, best cheap.	Younge, Richard.	1656 (1656)	Wing Y164; ESTC R218089	11,382	17

stretched out necks and with wandring eies making a minsing as they go and make a tinkling with their feet therefore shall the Lord mak the heads of the daughters of Zion ball'd and the Lord shall discover their secret parts In that day shall the Lord take away the ornaments of the slippers and the cauls and the round tiers the sweet balls and the bracelets and the bonnets the tires of the head and the slops and the head-bands and the tablets and the ear-rings the rings and the mufflers the costly apparel and the vails and the wimples and the crisping-pins and the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoods and the lawns And instead of sweet savours there shall be a stink and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of dressing of the hair baldnesse and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty Isa. 3. 16. to 25. Miriams Leprosie is one instance of this her foul tongue was not onely punished with a foul face but her pride was cured with deformity Or is it plenty that makes you flaunt it You shall want necessaries Or is it making an Idol of your little one it shall be taken from you and so of health There cannot be a worse signe of ensuing evil then pride as we see in Peter If Paul but begin to exalt himself some messenger of Satan shal be sent to pull him down again 2 Cor. 12. 7 ●●ide goeth before destruction and an high minde before the fall ●●● 16. 18. And the reason is All that are proud in heart are an abomination to the Lord and though hand join in hand such shall not go unpunished Prov. 16. 5. He that hath a proud look and high heart I cannot suffer saith the Lord Psal. 101. 5. Job 40. 11. 12. Mal. 4. 1. of which you have had some experience The Lord hath spoken to you once twice thrice and that in an easie and familiar Scripture phrase he hath brought you and your babe into physicks fetters he hath abated of your beauty he hath cut short your means the fuel of your pride yea he hath gone further with you for whereas your honour hath been more cared for then your God and all was well while you were well esteemed Is not your good name at the stake and your credit wofully blasted by excelling all of your rank and calling and all bounds of discretion and by your scorning to be thought a Ministers wife in which Religion also suffers Hath not self-conceitednesse broken your credit For as there is no plaister like this to pull down proud flesh so God hath accordingly decreed that while we think well of our selves others shall never think well of us Thus hath the Lord dealt with you whose preventing mercie it is to speak before he strikes to lighten before he thunders to warn before he wounds to use the rod before he takes up the sword yet you neither hear nor take notice of his displeasure Your eies are not opened your heart is not humbled but your pride remains being somwhat like Nero still who took it for a disparagement forsooth to be seen two daies in one suit Though you wear a pretty part of your husbands estate upon your back and the like about your neck What is wisedom departed from you or would you have Jezabels fare be dasht in pieces Would you be let go on like Absolom whose chief pride lay in his hair and that became his halter Look to it for God will first or last make you know your self if you belong to him and at the next bout cast you down to the very ground and if that will not serve one foot shall slip into hell that it may be a means through his blessing to further and forward you in the way to heaven as it fared with the incestuous Corinthian 1 Cor. 5. 5. 2 Cor. 2. 6 7 8. which if you would prevent take warning in time for God will be sure to have his will of those that are wedded to their own wills yea he delights in it as you may see in Pharaohs example O Cousin my fear is that this your pride will spin you a thred of many troubles before you learn that lesson of the Psalmist Before I was afflicted I went astray but now do I keep thy commandements Psal. 119. 67. And indeed we call for greater strokes by not feeling the lesser If we be warned of any thing but sin one warning will serve but we are so incorporated and inured to sin that a thousand sermons will not serve Custom hath made sin stronger in many then the Word of God Whereupon God takes another course and saies I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their fault and seek me for in their affliction they will seek me diligently Hos. 5. 15. Though indeed never to think on God until we stand in need of him argues a base and not an ingenuous spirit I confesse it 's well if it prove so well for this is more then God ows us and his method to millions is this The seed was sown this year the Lord calls for fruit and none will come the next year and the next after and none comes at last the curse goeth forth Never fruit grow upon thee more as it fared with the Fig-tree Cut it down and cast it into the fire Luk. 13. 6. to 10. Now whether of these two waies the Lord will deal with you onely himself knows But one of the two I am sure he will and the last is most likely For the greatest number enter the broad-gate and they are few in comparison one of a City and two of a Tribe Isa. 10. 22. that shall be saved True there is scarce a man on earth but he thinks to go to heaven though no man thinks that the whole world shall go to heaven for then were hell made to no purpose Yea whereas the Jews thought that if but two men in the world were saved the one should be a Scribe the other a Pharisee Christ saith neither of both should come there Luk. 13. 28. But admit your case be onely doubtful and not desperate you have not two souls that you may hazard one nor will any wise-man venture his soul on such an uncertainty I know you have favorable thoughts of your self and much to say in your own behalf though that much is nothing In excusing our faults we are all too eloquent though to a wise and godly man whose folly is wiser then the wisdom of the world what you have to alleage would appear but pitious shifts weaker then walls of paper As what saies wise Solomon All the waies of a man are clean in his own eies but the Lord pondereth the spirits And men may more then guesse by reflection from the Word because the outward actions declare the inward intentions A good Conversion is proved by a good Conversation If any one be ingrafted into Christ by a lively

I stand to apply it But see the sottishnesse of pride and vain glory for pride and follie are vices that ever go together Wicked men glory in that which is indeed their Shame Our cloaths are but as a plaister upon a sore Wickedness brought nakedness and apparel hides it Gen. 3. 10 11. whereof being proud is as if a Thief should be proud of his halter Our cloaths are but to cover shame and nakednesse but as signs of God's displeasure by reason of Original sin and to be proud of them is as if a Prisoner should be proud of his Bolts Our cloaths are like a Westminster-hall paper to shew what we have committed which occasioned it nor had we else needed them It is as if a Rogue should have his pardon upon condition that he will ever after wear a rope about his neck and therefore as one burned in the forehead for some villany ought so often as hee looketh in a glasse and perceiveth the scar thereof to think upon and detest his wickednesse so ought we Again in glorying in gorgious attire you make that a matter of pride that indeed makes you ridiculous You think your self brave but no bodie else thinkes you so Nothing procures love and credit both with God and man like humility nothing hatred and scorn like pride Would you have God your friend or your enemie you may for he resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble James 4 6. 1 Pet. 5. 5. No vice gets a man so many enemies as this vice not the humble alone but one proud man hates another your self loves humilitie in all but your self as if you did wish well to all souls but your own It is a just plague upon Sensualists they seek for things out of their proper orbs They seek for reputation in revenge but alas that is to be found in patience It is the glory of a man to passe by an offence Prov. 19. 11. They seek content in riches which is as if one should seek for fresh water in the midst of the Sea They seek for honour in pride whereas honour is to be found in humilitie Prov. 29. 23. It is to be observed that the more ignorant any one is the more conceited he is Great pride argues great ignorance little humility but little knowledge of our own hearts According to our humility is our knowledge of our selves and according to the knowledg of our selves is our humility When Paul saw the filthie puddle of concupiscence that was in him he was throughly taken down indeed And until we become humble we can never become wise Time reading and learning may swell our brains but still our hearts will remain emptie He will teach the Humble his way Prov. 11. 2. The first step to wisedom is humilitie Isa. 28. 9. Nor is pride more a sign of ignorance then it is of emptiness The lighter ballance or end of the beam will presse upward and ever be highest that ear of corn or bough which is fullest or most laden with fruit hangs lowest to the ground alwaies It is froth onely that swims on the top It is the nature of man to be proud when man by nature has nothing to be proud of As take away from mens mindes vain opinions flattering hopes fals valuations imaginations and the like you will leave the mindes of most men and women but poor shrunken things full of melancholy indisposition and unpleasing to themselves And as for Beauty even the fairest presence which puffs up so many is but a dunghill coveredover with white and purple Or admit it be grace and virtue that one is proud of such an ones graces and virtues will be sure to lessen as his pride increaseth and in the end wither away and leave him as leaves do a tree in Autumne Neither will any good thing stay or reside where pride is and remains be it peace plenty credit or the like First not peace or comfort Such as have their thoughts high and their fortunes low live alwaies a pensive life And the onely reason why we want our desires is because our desires want reason Yee ask and receive not because yee ask amiss that yee may consume it upon your lusts Jam. 4. 3. 2. Nor credit Infamy ever ensueth arrogancy If wee thought meanlyer of our selvs others would think better of us Fair Absalom had ambitiously provided a stately Monument for his Corps a Pyramis or Pillar in the King's Dale but he was tumbled with infamy into a ditch and covered like carion under an heap of stones The Babel projectors built their Tower to get them a name but it turned to their shame and confusion too Even the best and greatest works undertaken for ostentation do commonly misse of their end and turn to the Authors shame Before honour goeth humility Prov. 15. 33. but when pride cometh then cometh shame Prov. 11. 2. 3. Nor will plenty and prosperity stay where pride remains While Saul was little in his own eies God made him head over the twelve Tribes and gave him abundance but when he left his humility his Kingdom left him and his house When Hezekiah was puft up with the wealth and the pretious things that God gave him the Prophet tells him that all those things and all that his Fathers had laid up in store for him should be carried away to Babylon 2 Kings 20. 12. to 19. When Nebuchadnezar built for the glory of his Majestie and began to boast himself he was suddenly deprived of his Kingdom and sent to graze with the beasts but when he was humbled to the very ground he had his Kingdom and all else restored unto him Dan. 4. 29. to 37. Many the like examples I might give you of such as have been undone by their pride but daily experience hath acquainted you with not a few that by hoysing up the sail of their ships too high have made shipwrack A little sail to a great Vessel rids no way though the winde be never so fair A large sail to a little Bark drowns it The pride of man shall bring him low but the humble in spirit shall enjoy glory Prov. 29. 23. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth Mat. 5. 5. W●● so exalteth himself shall be brought low but whosoever humbleth himself shall be exalted Mat. 23. 12. Luk. 14. 11. No sin hath pull'd down so many as this that promised to set them up And I would wish you to look to it least God withdraw more as he hath already some of the fuel of your pride and quench the fire of your Kitchen for confident I am out of the experience I have of the Lord's dealing that if you belong to him he will make you bow or break you shall be humbled and that to purpose and that in it wherein you offend Mark me what I say Are you proud of beauty You shall have no beauty to be proud of Because the daughters of Zion are proud and walk with