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The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at…
The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at Dunstan's-West and published in answer to the accusations of some and the desires of others / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R. White for F. Tyton, 1662
THE Mischief of Self-ignorance, AND Benefit of Self-acquaintance. › Part
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11. It is unacquaintedness with themselves, that makes men quarrel with the word of God, rejecting it when it suits not with their deceived reason, and to be offended with his faithful Ministers, when they cross them in their opinions or ways, or deal with them with that serious plainness, as the weight of the Case, and their necessity doth require. Alas, Sirs, if you were acquainted with your selves, you would know that the holy Rule is strait, and the crookedness is in your conceits and misapprehensions; and that your frail understandings should rather be suspected then the word of God; and that your work is to learn and obey the Law, and not to censure it, James 4.11. And that quarrelling with the holy word which you should obey, will not excuse but aggravate your sin; nor save you from the condemnation, but fasten it and make ⟨p. 30⟩it greater. You would know that it is more wisdom to stoop, then to contend with God: and that it is not your Physicians, nor the medicine that you should fall out with, nor desire to be delivered from, but the disease.
11. It is unacquaintedness with themselves, that makes men quarrell with the word of God, rejecting it when it suits not with their deceived reason, and to be offended with his faithfull Ministers, when they cross them in their opinions or ways, or deal with them with that serious plainness, as the weight of the Case, and their necessity doth require. Alas, Sirs, if you were acquainted with your selves, you would know that the holy Rule is strait, and the crookedness is in your conceits and misapprehensions; and that your frail understandings should rather be suspected then the word of God; and that your work is to learn and obey the Law, and not to censure it, James 4.11. And that quarrelling with the holy word which you should obey, will not excuse but aggravate your sin; nor save you from the condemnation, but fasten it and make ⟨p. 30⟩it greater. You would know that it is more wisdom to stoop, then to contend with God: and that it is not your Physitions, nor the medicine that you should fall out with, nor desire to be delivered from, but the disease.