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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
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.
A man that knoweth his own necessiti•• and unworthiness, is thankful for a little to God and man. Mercy is as no mercy, when there is no sense of need or misery. [Sapienti notum est quanti res quaeque taxanda sit] saith Seneca. Therefore God useth to humble them so low in the work of conversion, whom he meaneth ever after to employ […] the magnifying of his grace. And then that which is folly and hypocrisy from a Pharisee, will be an acceptable sacrifice from a humbled grateful soul; and he that by Grace is differenced from other men, may (modestly) thank God that he is not as other ⟨p. 129⟩men. For had he nothing more to thank God for, then the ungodly world, he would be rejected and perish with the world: And if he have more then the world, and yet be no more thankful then the world, he would be guilty of greater unthankfulness then the world. [Non est superbia elati, sed confessio non ingrati: & habere te cognosce, & nihil ex te habere; ut nec superbus sis, nec ingratus: Dic Deo tuo, quoniam sanctus sum quia sanctificasti me: quia accepi, nonquae habui; quia tu dedisti, non quae ego merui] saith Augustine, [This is not the Pride of one lift up, but the acknowledgement of one that's not unthankful: Know that thou hast, and know that thou hast nothing of thy self; that thou mayest neither be proud, nor yet unthankful. Say to thy God, I am holy, fer thou hast sanctified me: for I have received what I had not; and thou hast given me what I deserved not.] The Thanksgiving of a faithful soul, is so far from being displeasing to God as a Pharisaical ostentation, that it is a great and excellent duty, and a most sweet and acceptable sacrifice, Psal. 50.14.23. Offer unto God thanksgiving — He that offereth praise, Glorifieth me.]
A man that knoweth his own necessiti•• and unworthiness, is thankfull for a little to God and man. Mercy is as no mercy, when there is no sense of need or misery. [Sapienti notum est quanti res quaeque taxanda sit] saith Seneca. Therefore God useth to humble them so low in the work of conversion, whom he meaneth ever after to imploy 〈…〉 the magnifying of his grace. And then that which is folly and hypocrisie from a Pharisee, will be an acceptable sacrifice from a humbled gratefull soul; and he that by Grace is differenced from other men, may (modestly) thank God that he is not as other