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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.
And it is a necessary and inseparable companion: If the wise of your bosom should be a shrew, you must not therefore be a stranger to her, because of nearness, necessity and business. If Conscience should give you some foul words, and chide you when you had rather be flattered; yet there is no running from it for more pleasant company: Home is homely: Its there that you must dwell: Conscience is married to you: Please it on safe terms as well as you can: but do not think to overrun it: For it will follow you; or you must return to it home again, when you have gone out furthest, and done you worst. You have taken Conscience for better and for worse. There is no expectation of a divorce: no not by Death: It will follow ⟨p. 197⟩you to Eternity. And therefore O be not strange to Conscience, that will be your Comforter or Tormentor at the hour of death; that can do so much to make sickness and all suffering light or grievous; and to make death welcome or terrible to you: Fly not from conscience that must dwell with you for ever.
And it is a necessary and inseparable companion: If the wise of your bosome should be a shrew, you must not therefore be a stranger to her, because of nearness, necessity and business. If Conscience should give you some foul words, and chide you when you had rather be flattered; yet there is no running from it for more pleasant company: Home is homely: Its there that you must dwell: Conscience is married to you: Please it on safe terms as well as you can: but do not think to overrun it: For it will follow you; or you must return to it home again, when you have gone yout furthest, and done you worst. You have taken Conscience for better and for worse. There is no expectation of a divorce: no not by Death: It will follow ⟨p. 197⟩you to Eternity. And therefore O be not strange to Conscience, that will be your Comforter or Tormenter at the hour of death; that can do so much to make sickness and all suffering light or grievous; and to make death welcome or terrible to you: Fly not from conscience that must dwell with you for ever.