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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 1: Quest. How is the adherent Vanity of every Condition most effectually abated by Serious…
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Quest. How is the adherent Vanity of every Condition most effectually abated by Serious Godliness? SERMON I.
ECCLES. VI. 11, 12. 11. Seeing there be many things that increase Vanity, what is man the better? 12. For who knoweth what is good for man in this Life?
ECCLES. VI. 11, 12. 11. Seeing there be many things that encrease Vanity, what is man the better? 12. For who knoweth what is good for man in this Life?
I Began my Morning-Exercises with this comprehensive Case, How to be in all things, at all times exactly Conscientious; and the Supplement with this, How to attain and improve such Love to God, as may influence all the Graces, Actions, and Passages of our Lives; and now I would fain direct you, How to prevent, or cure the Vanity that is incident to every Condition.
Solomon, upon the review of his Life, the Honours, Pleasures, Wealth, and Wisdom, he had so abundantly enjoyed, the many observations he had made of things, natural, moral, domestical, civil, sensual, and divine; the curious, critical enquiries he had made after true Happiness, and what contribution all things under the Sun afford towards it, at last demonstrates the utter insufficiency of all things merely worldly to make us happy. In the first six Chapters of this Book, he shows wherein Happiness doth not consist, confuting the vain Opinions of all sorts of irreligious Persons; and in the six last Chapters, he shows wherein it doth consist, rectifying the Judgment of all those that seek after it.