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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 8: Quest. How may we best cure the Love of being Flatter'd? SERMON VIII.
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4. Would you be cured of immoderate Love of an undue praise, then so often as you perceive any one soothing you therewith, suspect there may be, and search what likeliest is, the design such have upon you. We may with good manners question the Integrity of his purpose, who doth, on our Knowledge, transgress the rules of Truth in the words we hear from him; such men lye for advantage: the discovery of this designing, wheedling Projector will, if you have any Spirit of a man in you, take off your Love, yea turn it into hatred. No man can love to be imposed upon; be assured there is a snare hid, search after it, keep a watchful Eye upon it, in time you will discover what you prevented, and never love what endangered you; in vain is the Net spread in the sight of any Bird. And there's much in that of Diogenes to a Flatterer.1
4. Would you be cur'd of immoderate Love of an undue praise, then so often as you perceive any one soothing you therewith, suspect there may be, and search what likeliest is, the design such have upon you. We may with good manners question the Integrity of his purpose, who doth, on our Knowledge, transgress the rules of Truth in the words we hear from him; such men lye for advantage: the discovery of this designing, wheedling Projector will, if you have any Spirit of a man in you, take off your Love, yea turn it into hatred. No man can love to be impos'd upon; be assured there is a snare hid, search after it, keep a watchful Eye upon it, in time you will discover what you prevented, and never love what endanger'd you; in vain is the Net spread in the sight of any Bird. And there's much in that of Diogenes to a Flatterer.1
- 1Nihil proficis cum te intelligam. Seneca in Epist.
It is the great care of these Lurkers to lye concealed, and to hide their purposes, and to blind-fold those they lead; for 'tis but one labour to expose them to our view, and to our hatred. Could weeping Parents give their seduced Children Eyes to see the seducing projects of corrupt Flatterers, they need be no farther solicitous, their Children would find Hearts to hate them. There is nothing truly amiable in flattery, and none that know it approve or love