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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.
3. Moreover self is quite blind in the matters of God: the natural man discerneth them not, nor can do, because they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor. 2. 14. And the ignorant and blind are incompetent judges.
4. And the selfish man is no good student in the Laws of God; even when he readeth the letter, he doth not mind or savour the spirit of them. Rom. 8. 5. [For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh: but they that are after the spirit, the things of ⟨p. 85⟩the spirit.] A fair world it would be, if every Collier should judge the Privy Council and the Judges of the Land! or if every thief should sit upon his accuser and his Judge, and every traitor should judge the Prince. And a thousand-fold more insufficient is self to judge the Word of God.
4. And the selfish man is no good student in the Laws of God; even when he readeth the letter, he doth not mind or savour the spirit of them. Rom. 8. 5. [For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh: but they that are after the spirit, the things of ⟨p. 85⟩the spirit.] A fair world it would be, if every Colliar should judge the Privy Council and the Judges of the Land! or if every thief should sit upon his accuser and his Judge, and every traitor should judge the Prince. And a thousand-fold more insufficient is self to judge the Word of God.