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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.
For your souls sake therefore come into the Light, and try your selves, and huddle not over a work of such unspeakable consequence, as the searching of your hearts and judging of your spiritual state? O be glad to know what you are indeed! Put home the question, Am I sanctified or not? A• I in the Spirit or in the flesh? Be glad of any help for the sure resolution of such doubts. Take not up with sleight and venturous presumptions. It is your own case: your nearest and your greatest case: All lies upon it: Who should be so willing of the plainest dealing, the speediest and the closest search as you? O be not surprised by an unexpected sight of an unrenewed miserable soul at death. It it be so, see it now, while seeing it may do good: If it be not so, a faithful search can do you no harm, but comfort you by the discovery of your sincerity. Say not too late, I thought I had been born again of the Spirit, and had been in a state of grace? I thought I had been a child of God, and reconciled to him and Justified by faith! O what a heart-tearing word would it be ⟨p. 205⟩•o you, when time is past, to say, I thought •t had been better with me!
For your souls sake therefore come into the Light, and try your selves, and huddle not over a work of such unspeakable consequence, as the searching of your hearts and judging of your spiritual state? O be glad to know what you are indeed! Put home the question, Am I sanctified or not? A• I in the Spirit or in the flesh? Be glad of any htlp for the sure resolution of such doubts. Take not up with sleight and venturous presumptions. It is your own case: your nearest and your greatest case: All lies upon it: Who should be so willing of the plainest dealing, the speediest and the closest search as you? O be not surprized by an unexpected sight of an unrenewed miserable soul at death. It it be so, see it now, while seeing it may do good: If it be not so, a faithfull search can do you no harm, but comfort you by the discovery of your sincerity. Say not too late, I thought I had been born again of the Spirit, and had been in a state of grace? I thought I had been a child of God, and reconciled to him and Justified by faith! O what a heart-tearing word would it be ⟨p. 205⟩