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A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament…
A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament at Westminster, at their late solemn fast for the settling of these nations, April 30, 1660 / by Richard Baxter.A sermon of repentance preached before the honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament at Westminster, at their late solemn fast for the setling of these nations, April 30, 1660 / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. and A.M. for Francis Tyton and Jane Underhil, 1660
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.
3. Note also, that it is [themselves] that they are said to loath: because it is our selves that conscience hath to do with, as witness and as judge: It is our selves that are naturally nearest to our selves; and our own affairs that we are most concerned in. It is our selves that must have the Joy or Torment: and therefore it is our own actions and estate that we have first to mind. Though yet as Magistrates, Ministers, and neighbours, we must next mind others, and must loath iniquity wherever we meet it; and a ⟨p. 6⟩vile person must be contemned in our eyes, while we honour them that fear the Lord, Psal. 15. 4.
And as by Nature, so in the Commandment, God hath given to every man the first and principal care and charge of himself, and his own salvation, and consequently of his own ways. So that we may with less suspicion loath our selves, then others; and are more obliged to do it.
And as by Nature, so in the Commandment, God hath given to every man the first and principal care and charge of himself, and his own salvation, and consequently of his own wayes. So that we may with less suspition loath our selves, then others; and are more obliged to do it.
4. Note also, that it is not for our troubles, or our disgrace, or our bodily deformities or infirmities, or for our poverty and want, that penitents are said to loath themselves: But for their iniquities and abominations. For 1o this loathing is a kind of Justice done upon our selves; and therefore is exercised not for mere infelicities, but for crimes. Conscience keepeth in its own Court, and meddleth but with moral evils, which we are conscious of. 2o And also it is sin that is loathed by God, and makes the creature loathsome in his eyes: And Repentance conformeth the soul to God, and therefore causeth us to loath as he doth, and on his grounds. And 3o there is no Evil but sin, and that which sin procureth. And therefore it is for sin that the penitent loathes himself.