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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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Whereas a soul overwhelmed with cares, and fears, and griefs, and muddied with sinful excessive thoughtfulness, and habituated in a diseased sickly frame, is afraid of every thing, and turneth matter of comfort into sorrow, and is in daily pain by its own imaginations; like a man that hath a sore, and is hurt with the thought that some body touched it. When we feel our selves well, all goes well with us, and we put a good interpretation upon all things: And when we are out of order, we complain of every thing, and take pleasure in nothing, and no one can content us, and all is taken in the worser part; As the Poet said, ⟨p. 500⟩Laeta fere laetus cecini, cano tristia tristis.
Whereas a soul overwhelmed with cares, and fears, and griefs, and muddyed with sinfull excessive thoughtfulness, and habituated in a diseased sickly frame, is afraid of every thing, and turneth matter of comfort into sorrow, and is in daily pain by its own imaginations; like a man that hath a sore, and is hurt with the thought that some body toucht it. When we feel our selves well, all goes well with us, and we put a good interpretation upon all things: And when we are out of order, we complain of every thing, and take pleasure in nothing, and no one can content us, and all is taken in the worser part; As the Poet said, ⟨p. 500⟩Laeta fere laetus cecini, cano tristia tristis.
You shall have a merry song from a merry heart, and a sad ditty from a troubled grieved mind.
And thus while the discoveries both of sin and grace, are at present overlooked, or afterwards forgotten, and almost all men judge of themselves by present feeling, no wonder if few are well acquainted with themselves.