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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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O how many thousands will then think much otherwise of themselves then they now do! Death turns you out of the company of flatterers; and calls you out of the world of error, where men laugh and cry in their sleep: and bringeth you among awakened souls, where all things are called by their proper names, and all men are taken by themselves to be as they are indeed. Serious Religion is not there a derision; nor Loving and seeking and serving God with all the heart and soul and might, is not there taken for unnecessary preciseness. Holiness is not there called humour or Hypocrisy: Nor is the Pharisaical Ceremonious Hypocrite, taken for a man of the most prudent, safe and moderate Religion. God judgeth not as man, by outward appearances; but with righteous judgement: that ⟨p. 195⟩which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God, Luke 16.15. And he will make you then to judge of your selves as he hath judged you. Though Wisdom now be Justified but of her children, it shall then be Justified by all: Not by a sanctifying, but a constrained involuntary tormenting light: And though now men can believe as well of themselves, as self-love and the quieting of their consciences doth require; yet then they will have lost this mastery over their own conceits.
O how many thousands will then think much otherwise of themselves then they now do! Death turns you out of the company of flatterers; and calls you out of the world of error, where men laugh and cry in their sleep: and bringeth you among awakened souls, where all things are called by their proper names, and all men are taken by themselves to be as they are indeed. Serious Religion is not there a derision; nor Loving and seeking and serving God with all the heart and soul and might, is not there taken for unnecessary preciseness. Holiness is not there called humour or Hypocrisie: Nor is the Pharisaical Ceremonious Hypocrite, taken for a man of the most prudent, safe and moderate Religion. God judgeth not as man, by outward appearances; but with righteous judgement: that ⟨p. 195⟩which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God, Luke 16.15. And he will make you then to judge of your selves as he hath judged you. Though Wisdom now be Justified but of her children, it shall then be Justified by all: Not by a sanctifying, but a constrained involuntary tormenting light: And though now men can believe as well of themselves, as self-love and the quieting of their consciences doth require; yet then they will have lost this mastery over their own conceits.