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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 2: How ought we to love our Neighbours as our selves? Serm. II.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There is a two-fold self, 1. A natural Self. 2. A sinful Self.
This is to be hated, the other loved. We cannot hate sinful self too much though it be to the destruction of it; this is that which we are bound to kill, mortify, and utterly destroy: Christ came into the world, purposely to help and assist us in the destruction of it;1 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. But we may lawfully love natural self, soul and body; because these are the works of God, and therefore good.
This is to be hated, the other loved. We cannot hate sinful self too much though it be to the destruction of it; this is that which we are bound to kill, mortifie, and utterly destroy: Christ came into the world, purposely to help and assist us in the destruction of it;1 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. But we may lawfully love natural self, soul and body; because these are the works of God, and therefore good.
He that came to destroy the works of the Devil, came to save the soul and body,1 the works of God. The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.