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Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace…
Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace with motives opening the lamentable effects of their weaknesses and distempers / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1669
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
DIRECT. VII. In the work of Mortification, let SELF-DENIAL be the First and Last of all your study, care and diligence.
DIRECT. VII. In the work of Mortification, let SELF-DENYAL be the First and Last of all your study, care and diligence.
Understand how much of the fallen depraved state of man consisteth in the sin of SELFISHNESS: How he is sunk into Himself in his fall from the Love of God, and of his Neighbour; of the public or private good of others: And how this inordinate Self-love is now the grand enemy of all true Love to God or Man; and the root and heart of Covetousness, Pride, Voluptuousness, and all iniquity. Let it be your work therefore all your days to mortify it, and watch against it. When you feel your selves partial in your own cause, and apt to be drawing from others to your selves, in point of reputation, precedency or gain, and apt to make too great a matter of every word that is spoken against you, or every little wrong that is done you, observe then the pernicious root of Selfishness, from whence all this mischief doth proceed. Read more of this in my Treatise of Self-denial.
UNderstand how much of the fallen depraved state of man consisteth in the sin of SELFISHNESS: How he is sunk into Himself in his fall from the Love of God, and of his Neighbour; of the publick or private good of others: And how this inordinate Self-love is now the grand enemy of all true Love to God or Man; and the root and heart of Covetousness, Pride, Voluptuousness, and all iniquity. Let it be your work therefore all your dayes to mortifie it, and watch against it. When you feel your selves partial in your own cause, and apt to be drawing from others to your selves, in point of reputation, precedency or gain, and apt to make too great a matter of every word that is spoken against you, or every little wrong that is done you, observe then the pernicious root of Selfishness, from whence all this mischief doth proceed. Read more of this in my Treatise of Self-denyal.