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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.
The Ethical knowledge of our selves, or that which respecteth the Precept and our Duty, is twofold: The first is, as we have performed that Duty; The second, as we have violated the Law by non-performance or transgression: The first is, the knowledge of our selves as Good; the second as Evil. And both are either the knowledge of our Habits (good or evil) or of our Acts; How we are Morally, Inclined, disposed, or habituated; or what, and how we have Done; We must know the Good estate of our Nature that we were created in; the Bad estate of sinful nature that we are fallen into; the actual sin committed ⟨p. 6⟩against the Law of nature; and what sin we have committed against the Law of Grace: and whether we have obeyed the call of the Gospel of salvation, or not. So that as mans state considered Ethically, is threefold, Institutus, Destitutus, & Restitutus: Infirmatus, Deformatus, & Reformatus; the state of Upright nature; the State of Sin, Original and Actual; and the state of Grace; we must know what we are in respect to every one of these.
The Ethical knowledge of our selves, or that which respecteth the Precept and our Duty, is twofold: The first is, as we have performed that Duty; The second, as we have violated the Law by non-performance or transgression: The first is, the knowledge of our selves as Good; the second as Evil. And both are either the knowledge of our Habits (good or evil) or of our Acts; How we are Morally, Inclined, disposed, or habituated; or what, and how we have Done; We must know the Good estate of our Nature that we were created in; the Bad estate of sinfull nature that we are fallen into; the actual sin committed ⟨p. 6⟩against the Law of nature; and what sin we have committed against the Law of Grace: and whether we have obeyed the call of the Gospel of salvation, or not. So that as mans state considered Ethically, is threefold, Institutus, Destitutus, & Restitutus: Infirmatus, Deformatus, & Reformatus; the state of Upright nature; the State of Sin, Original and Actual; and the state of Grace; we must know what we are in respect to every one of these.