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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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3. If you know not your selves, you cannot be Christians: you cannot have a practical ⟨p. 98⟩belief in Christ: For he is offered to you in the Gospel, as the remedy for your Misery; as the ransom for your enthralled souls; as the propitiation for your sin, and your peace-maker with the Father; without whose merit, satisfaction, righteousness, and intercession, your guilty souls can have no hope. And can you savingly value him in these respects, if you know not that sin and misery, that guilt and thraldom, in which your need of Christ consisteth? Christ is esteemed by you according to the judgement you pass upon your selves.
3. If you know not your selves, you cannot be Christians: you cannot have a practical ⟨p. 98⟩belief in Christ: For he is offered to you in the Gospel, as the remedy for your Misery; as the ransome for your enthralled souls; as the propitiation for your sin, and your peace-maker with the Father; without whose merit, satisfaction, righteousness, and intercession, your guilty souls can have no hope. And can you savingly value him in these respects, if you know not that sin and misery, that guilt and thraldom, in which your need of Christ consisteth? Christ is esteemed by you according to the judgement you pass upon your selves.
They that say they are sinners, from a general brain-knowledge, will accordingly say Christ is their Saviour and their hope, with a superficial Belief, and will honour him with their lips with all the titles belonging to the Redeemer of the world: But they that feel that they are deadly sick of sin […] the very heart, and are lost for ever if he do not save them, will feel what the name of a Saviour signifieth, and will look to him as the Israelites to the brazen Serpent, and cast themselves at his feet, for the […] of grace, and will yield up themselves […] be saved by him, in his way. An uneffectual knowledge of your selves, may make you believe in a Redeemer, as all the City do of a