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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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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 ⟨p. 332⟩there be uprightness of heart, yet too much Hypocrisy is joined with it, when it is little perceived or suspected.
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 mixt; 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 ⟨p. 332⟩there be uprightness of heart, yet too much Hypocrisie is joyned with it, when it is little perceived or suspected.
And thus in ten Instances I have showed you how much the servants of Christ themselves may be mistaken or unacquainted with their hearts; and how the work of mortification is hindered by this covering of so many secret unobserved sins.
And thus in ten Instances I have shewed you how much the servants of Christ themselves may be mistaken or unacquainted with their hearts; and how the work of mortification is hindered by this covering of so many secret unobserved sins.