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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.
I think of you sometime, when I see how ingeniously and busily children do make up their babies of clouts, and how seriously they talk about them, and how every […] and clout is matter of employment and discourse, ⟨p. 175⟩and how highly they value them, and •ow many days they can unweariedly •pend about them. Pardon my comparison: If you repent not of your discourses •nd employments more then they, and do not one day call your selves far worse fools then •hem, then let me be stigmatized with the most contumelious brand of folly.
I think of you sometime, when I see how ingeniously and busily children do make up their babies of clouts, and how seriously they talk about them, and how every 〈…〉 and clout is matter of employment and dis•ourse, ⟨p. 175⟩and how highly they value them, and •ow many dayes they can unweariedly •pend about them. Pardon my compari•on: If you repent not of your discourses •nd imployments more then they, and do not one day call your selves far worse fools then •hem, then let me be stigmatized with the most contumelious brand of folly.
It is not then your want of Natural faculties and parts that makes you mute in the matters of God and your salvation, when men of meaner naturals then you do speak of those things with the greatest freedom and delight.