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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
Treatise › Chapter 8: The partiality of mens practical judgement in their own Case.
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6. If another man be so ingenuous as to forsake an old self-espoused opinion, which their reputation seems to lye upon, and this upon their arguing, or in conformity to their minds, they will commend his great self-denial and sincerity: But yet they will not do so themselves, where the case is perhaps more clear and necessary.
6. If another man be so ingenuous as to forsake an old self-espoused opinion, which their reputation seems to lye upon, and this upon their arguing, or in conformity to their minds, they will commend his great self-denyal and sincerity: But yet they will not do so themselves, where the case is perhaps more clear and necessary.
7. Take a man that is never so worldly and unmerciful, that gives not to the poor any considerable part of his estate, nor doth nothing worth the mentioning for the Church, and yet this man will consent that another shall be as bountiful and charitable as he will: when you can hardly screw a groat out of his purse, he will be content if another will give an hundred. And he will commend the liberal, and speak well of them, when he will not imitate them. And why is this? why it costeth him nothing for another to be liberal; and therefore he can advise it, or consent to it without self-denial: but self is against it when he should do it himself.
7. Take a man that is never so worldly and unmerciful, that gives not to the poor any considerable part of his estate, nor doth nothing worth the mentioning for the Church, and yet this man will consent that another shall be as bountiful and charitable as he will: when you can hardly scrue a groat out of his purse, he will be content if another will give an hundred. And he will commend the liberal, and speak well of them, when he will not imitate them. And why is this? why it costeth him nothing for another to be liberal; and therefore he can advise it, or consent to it without self-denyal: but self is against it when he should do it himself.