Mr. Haughty

"HAUGHTY is the name by which the spirit of carnal pride is indicated—the 'heady, high-minded' spirit of the soul, that will not bend its neck to the yoke of Christ, or yield itself to the obedience of Christ. This is the alleged “manliness” of unbelief, the vaunted “spirit” of scepticism, that makes a scoff at all religion, and speaks contemptuously of those who walk in religion’s ways. To brave the threatenings of God, and brazen out the protests of his law; to mouth the heavens, and charge God foolishly; to vaunt a boasted valiancy, and flaunt a defiant flag—these seem to be the sum and substance of this “brave man’s” doings. He has never descended to the well-watered level of the valley of humility, where goodly fruits and flowers are found, but has climbed the sides of the barren rock, and sought the eminence of the mountain height, the region of perpetual frost and of everlasting snow. He has ventured high; his fall shall be deep:—'Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall,' Proverbs 16:18."[2]