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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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such a Description as is fetched from his Created Image [Man,] and expressed in the terms that himself hath chosen, and used in his word, as knowing that if he will be understood by man, he must use the Notions and Expressions of man: And though these are spoken but Analogically of God, yet are there no fitter conceptions of him that the soul of man in flesh is capable of. So that the Atheist carrieth about him that Impress and Evidence of the Deity, which may convince him, or condemn him for his Foolishness and Impiety. He is a Fool indeed, that saith in his Heart, There is no God (Psal. 14.1.) when that Heart it self in its Being, and Life, and Motion is his Witness: and Soul and Body with all their faculties, are nothing but the Effects of this Almighty Cause: And when they prove that there is a God, even by questioning or denying it; being unable without him so much as to deny him, that is, to think, or speak, or be. As if a fool should write a Volume to prove that there is no Ink or Paper in the world; when it is Ink and Paper by which he writes.
such a Description as is fetcht from his Created Image [Man,] and expressed in the terms that himself hath chosen, and used in his word, as knowing that if he will be understood by man, he must use the Notions and Expressions of man: And though these are spoken but Analogically of God, yet are there no fitter conceptions of him that the soul of man in flesh is capable of. So that the Atheist carrieth about him that Impress and Evidence of the Deity, which may convince him, or condemn him for his Foolishness and Impiety. He is a Fool indeed, that saith in his Heart, There is no God (Psal. 14.1.) when that Heart it self in its Being, and Life, and Motion is his Witness: and Soul and Body with all their faculties, are nothing but the Effects of this Almighty Cause: And when they prove that there is a God, even by questioning or denying it; being unable without him so much as to deny him, that is, to think, or speak, or be. As if a fool should write a Volume to prove that there is no Ink or Paper in the world; when it is Ink and Paper by which he writes.