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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.
Having said so much of the Necessity of Ministers endeavouring to make unregenerate sinners know themselves, I shall next try what I can do towards it, with •hose that hear me, by proposing these few Questions to your consideration.
HAving said so much of the Necessity of Ministers endeavouring to make •nregenerate sinners know themselves, I shall next try what I can do towards it, with •hose that hear me, by proposing these few Questions to your consideration.
Quest. 1. Do you think that you were •ver unsanctified, and in a state of wrath and condemnation or not? If not, then you are not the off-spring of Adam: you are not then of humane race: For the Scripture telleth you that [We are conceived in sin.] Psal. 51.5. And [That by one man sin entered into the world, and Death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned] and that by the offence of one, judgement came upon all men to condemnation; Rom 5.12.18. And that [All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.] Rom. 3.23. [If we say that we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us, 1 John 1.8.10. And the wages of sin is death,