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

CHAP. X. Some weighty Consectaries.

Consect. 1. SO common and Potent is selfishness in the world, that its enough to convince a rational Considerate man, of the truth of the doctrine of the fall of man, and of Original corruption, against all the objections that all the Socinians or Pelagians in the world do make against it. He that thinks that God made man in this distempered, distracted state that selfishness doth hold the world in, hath unreasonable thoughts of the workmanship of God. He that seeth even children before they can speak or go so selfish as they are, & all mankind without exception to be naturally as so many Idol gods in the world, and can believe that this is the Image of God, in which they were created, doth make the Image of Satan to be the Image of God: No wiser, no better is the Doctrine that denieth Original sin, when self hath such a tyrannical, universal reign in all the world.

Consect. 1. SO common and Potent is selfishness in the world, that its enough to convince a rational Considerate man, of the truth of the doctrine of the fall of man, and of Original corruption, against all the objections that all the Socinians or Pelagians in the world do make against it. He that thinks that God made man in this distempered, distracted state that selfishness doth hold the world in, hath unreasonable thoughts of the workmanship of God. He that seeth even children before they can speak or go so selfish as they are, & all mankind without exception to be naturally as so many Idol gods in the world, and can believe that this is the Image of God, in which they were created, doth make the Image of Satan to be the Image of God: No wiser, no better is the Doctrine that denieth Original sin, when self hath such a tyrannical, universal raign in all the world.