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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
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And it is not only Hypocrites that are subject to these deceitful sins, who have them in dominion, but true Believers that have a remnant of this carnal selfish principle continually offering to insinuate and corrupt their most excellent works, and even all that they do.
And it is not only Hypocrites that are subject to these deceitfull sins, who have them in dominion, but true Believers that have a remnant of this carnal selfish principle continually offering to insinuate and corrupt their most excellent works, and even all that they do.
9. The strong eruption of those passions that seemed to be quite mortified, doth show that there is more evil lurking in the heart, then ordinarily doth appear. How calmly do we converse together? how mildly do we speak? till some provoking word or wrong do blow the coals, and then the dove appeareth to partake of a fiercer nature, and we can perceive that in the flame, which we perceived not in the spark. When a provocation can bring forth censorious, reviling, scornful words, it shows what before was latent in the heart.
9. The strong eruption of those passions that seemed to be quite mortified, doth shew that there is more evil lurking in the heart, then ordinarily doth appear. How calmly do we converse together? how mildly do we speak? till some provoking word or wrong do blow the coals, and then the dove appeareth to partake of a fiercer nature, and we can perceive that in the flame, which we perceived not in the spark. When a provocation can bring forth censorious, reviling, scornfull words, it shews what before was latent in the heart.
10. We are very apt to think those affections to be purely spiritual, which in the issue appear to be mixed with carnality. Our very love to the Assemblies and ordinances of worship, and to Ministers, and other servants of the Lord; to Books, and Knowledge; are ordinarily mixed; and good and bad are strangely complicate, and twisted together in the same affections and works. And the Love that beginneth in the spirit, is apt to degenerate into carnal Love, and to have too much respect to Riches, or Honour, or personage, or birth, or particular concernments of our own, and so it is corrupted, as Wine that turneth into Vinegar, before we are aware. And though still