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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.
I am troubled that I must tell you of so sad a case, that even the children of God may fall into, lest by troubling you with the opening of your danger, I should do any thing to bring you into it. But because self-ignorance and not being before hand acquainted with it, may do much more, I have timely showed you the danger with the remedy.
I am troubled that I must tell you of so sad a case, that even the children of God may fall into, lest by troubling you with the opening of your danger, I should do any thing to bring you into it. But because self-ignorance and not being before hand acquainted with it, may do much more, I have timely shewed you the danger with the remedy.
5. Another instance of the darkness even of a Heart that in part is sanctified, is in the successes of the temptations of Adversity. When we want nothing, we think we value not the world, and we could bear the loss of all. But when poverty or danger comes, what trouble and unseemly whining is there, as if it were by a worldling that is deprived of his Idol, and all the portion that ever he must have. And by the shameful moan and stir that we make for what ⟨p. 317⟩we want, we show more sinful overvaluing of it, and love to it, then before we observed or would believe. O how confidently and piously have I heard some inveigh against the Love of the world, as if there had been no such thing in them; who yet have been so basely dejected, when they have been unexpectedly stripped of their estates, as if they had been quite undone!
5. Another instance of the darkness even of a Heart that in part is sanctified, is in the successes of the temptations of Adversity. When we want nothing, we think we value not the world, and we could bear the loss of all. But when poverty or danger comes, what trouble and unseemly whining is there, as if it were by a worldling that is deprived of his Idol, and all the portion that ever he must have. And by the shamefull moan and stir that we make for what ⟨p. 317⟩