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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.
Especially when we have not only a ••eedom from temptations, but also the most powerful means to keep under vicious habits, […] hard to know how far they are mortified […] the root. When men are among those ••at countenance the contrary virtue, and •here the vice is in disgrace, and where examples of piety and temperance are still before their eyes: If they dwell in such •aces and company, where Authority and friendship and Reason do all take part with […], and cry down the evil, no wonder […] the evil that is unmortified in mens hearts, •o not much break out to their own or •thers observations through all this opposition. The instance of King Joash is fa•o•s for this: who did that which was •ight in the sight of the Lord, all the days •f •ehojada the Priest that instructed him, 2 Kings 12.2. but after his death, when the ⟨p. 288⟩Princes of Judah flattered him with their obeisance, he left the house of God and served Idols, till wrath came upon the land ▪ and was so hardened in sin, as to murder Zechariah the Prophet of God, and […] of that Jehojada that had brought him out of obscurity, and set him upon the Throne• even because he spake in the name of the Lord against his sin; 2 Chron. 24.20, 21, 22.
Especially when we have not only a ••eedom from temptations, but also the most ••werful means to keep under vitious habits, 〈…〉 hard to know how far they are mortified the root. When men are among those at countenance the contrary vertue, and here the vice is in disgrace, and where xamples of piety and temperance are still efore their eyes: If they dwell in such aces and company, where Authority and riendship and Reason do all take part with , and cry down the evil, no wonder the evil that is unmortified in mens hearts, o not much break out to their own or thers observations through all this oposition. The instance of King Joash is faos for this: who did that which was ight in the sight of the Lord, all the dayes f ehojada the Priest that instructed him,