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A treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at KidderminsterA treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at Kederminster
London: printed by Robert White for Nevil Simmons, 1675
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.
CHAP. I. What Selfishness and Self-denial are; at the Root.
CHAP. I. What Selfishness and Self-denyal are; at the Root.
I HAVE already spoken of Conversion in the foregoing Discourse, both opening to you the true nature of it, and the reasons of its necessity, and persuading men thereunto. But lest so great a work should miscarry with any for want of a more particular explication, I should next open the three great parts of the work distinctly and in order: that is, 1. From what it is that we must Turn: 2. To whom we must Turn: 3. And By whom we must Turn. For though I touched all these ⟨p. 2⟩in the foregoing Directions, and through the discourse; yet I am afraid lest so brief a touch should be uneffectual.
I HAVE already spoken of Conversion in the foregoing Discourse, both opening to you the true nature of it, and the reasons of its necessity, and perswading men thereunto. But lest so great a work should miscarry with any for want of a more particular explication, I should next open the three great parts of the work distinctly and in order: that is, 1. From what it is that we must Turn: 2. To whom we must Turn: 3. And By whom we must Turn. For though I touched all these ⟨p. 2⟩in the foregoing Directions, and through the discourse; yet I am afraid lest so brief a touch should be uneffectual.