abide to be called a thief: the whore loveth to commit uncleanness, but loveth not to be called a whore: And so Mr Badman loved to be proud, but could not abide to be called a proud man. The sweet of sin is desirable to polluted and corrupted man, but the name thereof is a blot in his scutcheon.

Atten. It is true that you have said: but pray how many sorts of pride are there?

Wise. There are two sorts of pride; pride of spirit, and pride of body. The first of these is thus made mention of in the scriptures. "Every one that is proud in heart is abomination to the Lord. A high look, and a proud heart, and the ploughing of the wicked, is sin. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit." Bodily pride the scripture mentions. "In that day the Lord shall take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands, and the tablets, and the ear-rings, the rings and the nose jewels; the changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses and the fine linen, and the hoods and the vails." By these expressions it is evident, that there is a pride of body, as well as a pride of spirit, and that both are sin, and so abominable to the Lord. But these texts Mr Badman could never abide to read, they were

to him as Micaiah was to Ahab, they never spoke good of him, but evil.

Atten. I suppose that it was not Mr Bidman's case alone, even to malign those texts that speak against their vices; for I believe that most ungodly men, where the scriptures are, have a secret antipathy against those words of God that do most plainly and fully rebuke them for their sins.

Wise. That is out of doubt; and by that antipathy they shew that sin and Satan are more welcome to them, than are the more wholesome instructions of life and godliness. Atten. Well, but not to go off from our discourse of Mr Badman. You say he was proud; but will you shew me now some symp. toms of one that is proud?

Wise. Yes that I will: And first I will shew you some symptoms of pride of heart. Pride of heart is seen by outward things, as pride of body in general is a sign of pride of heart; for all proud gestures of the body flow from pride of heart: therefore Solomon saith, "There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eye lids are lifted up. And again, "There is that exalteth their gait, their going. Now these lofty eyes, and this exalting of the gait, is a sign of a proud heart; for both these actions come from the heart: for out of the heart comes pride, in all the visible appearances of it. But, more particularly.

1. Heart pride is discovered by a stretched

out neck, and by mincing as they go. For the wicked, the proud, have a proud neck, a proud foot, a proud tongue, by which this their going is exalted. This is that which makes them look scornfully, speak ruggedly, and carry it huffingly among their neighbours.

2. A proud heart is a persecuting one: "The wicked through his pride doth persecute the poor.

3. A prayerless man is a proud man. 4. A contentious man is a proud man. 5. The disdainful man is a proud man. 6. The man that oppresses his neighbour is a proud man.

7. He that hearkeneth not to God's word with reverence and fear, is a proud man.

8. And he that calls the proud happy, is to be sure, a proud man. All these are proud in heart, and this their pride of heart doth thus discover itself.

As to bodily pride, it is discovered, that is, something of it, by all the particulars mentioned before; for though they are said to be symptoms of pride of heart, yet they are symtoms of that pride, by their shewing of themselves in the body. You know diseases that are within, are seen oft times by outward and visible signs, yet by them very signs even the outside is defiled also. So all those visible signs of heart pride are signs of bodily pride also. But to come to more outward signs. The putting on of gold, and pearls, and costly array; the plaiting of the hair, the following

of fashions, the seeking by gestures to imitate the proud, either by speech, looks, dresses, goings, or other fools baubles, of which at this time the world is full; all these, and many more, are signs, as of a proud heart, so of bodily pride also.

But Mr Badman would not allow, by any means, that this should be called pride, but rather neatness, handsomeness, comeliness, cleanliness, &c. neither would he allow, that following of fashions was any thing else, but because he would not be proud, singular, and esteemed fantastical by his neighbours.

Atten. But I have been told, that when some have been rebuked for their pride, they have turned it again upon the brotherhood of those by whom they have been rebuked: saying, Physician, heal thy friends, look at home among your brotherhood, even among the wisest of you, and see if you yourselves be clear, even your professors; for who is prouder than your professors? Scarce the devil himself.

Wise. My heart akes at this, because there is too much cause for it. This very answer would Mr Badman give his wife, when she as she would sometimes reprove him for his pride. We shall have, says he, great amendments in living now, for the devil is turned a correcter of vice; for no sin reigneth more in the world, quoth he, than pride among professors. And who can contradict him? let

us give the devil his due, the thing is too apparent for any man to deny.

And I doubt not but the same answer is ready in the mouths of Mr Badman's friends; for they may and do see pride display itself in the apparel and carriages of professors, one may say, almost as much as among any people in the land; the more is the pity. Ay, and I fear that even their extravagancies in this, hath hardened the heart of many an one, as I perceive it did somewhat the heart of Mr Badman himself.

For my own part, I have seen many myself, and those church-members too, so decked and bedaubed with their frangles and toys, and that when they have been in the solemn appointments of God, in the way of his worship, that I have wondered with what face such painted persons could sit in the place where they were without swooning. But certainly the holiness of God, and also the pollution of themselves by sin, must need be very far out of the minds of such people, what profession soever they make.

I have read of an whore's forehead, and I have read of Christian shame-facedness; I have read of costly array, and of that which becometh women professing godliness, with good works; but if I might speak, I know what I know, and could say, and yet do no wrong, that which would make some professors stink in their places; but now I forbear. Atten. Sir you seem greatly concerned at