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A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount
A godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reverend and judicious divine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his executors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one, of special points here handled; the other, of choice places of Scripture here quotedA godly and learned exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount: preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and iudicious diuine M. William Perkins. Published at the request of his exequutors by Th. Pierson preacher of Gods word. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one, of speciall points here handled; the other, of choise places of Scripture here quoted
Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1608Cambridge : Printed by Thomas Brooke and Cantrell Legge, printers to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1608
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Secondly, when we are about to censure any man, we must (in regard of this corruption) suspect our selves, and our speeches, & call our selves back to a view and consideration of that which we are to speak; for oft-times we see that which we ought not to see, and thereupon speak that which we ought in conscience to conceal. Physicians give this note of a frenzy, to begin to take up straws: Now when the mind looks not into it self, but pries into other mens actions, then no doubt it is not right, but is corrupt and infected with a spiritual frenzy, and therefore the danger of this disease must cause us to look unto our selves.
Secondly, when we are about to censure any man, we must (in regard of this corruption) suspect our selues, and our speeches, & call our selues backe to a view and consideration of that which wee are to speake; for oft-times we see that which we ought not to see, and thereupon speake that which we ought in conscience to conceale. Physitions giue this note of a frensie, to begin to take vp strawes: Now when the mind looks not into it selfe, but pries into other mens actions, then no doubt it is not right, but is corrupt and infected with a spirituall frensie, and therefore the danger of this disease must cause vs to looke vnto our selues.
Thirdly, here we may observe a reason of the strange behaviour of men in regard of sin; for this we may easily perceive, that men with open mouth will condemn those things in others, which they like and approve in themselves: now the cause hereof is, for that the affections do follow the mind, such as the mind is, such are the affections: and mans mind naturally looks outward, not inward, it sees very little faults in others, but will neither see nor condemn ⟨p. 422⟩the same faults, nor greater in it self: nay, rather it causeth man to love those sins in himself which he detests in others. And therefore in the amendment of our lives, we must begin in our own hearts, and turn the eye of our mind inward, to see our own sins, and labour first to have our hearts touched with sorrow for them, and to hate them first in our selves, and then to proceed to hate them in others. It is a preposterous course, arising from the corruption of nature, to begin with the hatred and dislike of sin out of our selves.