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The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomized together with a description of the heavenly and…The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomizd together with a description of the heavenly and…
The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomized together with a description of the heavenly and blessed self-seeking : in a sermon preached at Pauls the 10. of December, 1654 / by Edm. Calamy, B.D. ...The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomizd together with a description of the heavenly and blessed selfe-seeking : in a sermon preached at Pauls the 10. of December, 1654 / by Edm. Calamy, B.D. ...
London: printed by J.G. for Nath. Webb and Will. Grantham, 1655
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3. From that immoderate and inordinate worldly love which is in all men by Nature: for (as a Martyr well said at the stake) if we should unrip and anatomize a wicked man, we should find nothing in him but self-love, and worldly love: by Nature we love the Creature m•e than the Creator, pleasures more than God, and the praise of Men, more than the praise of God. By nature we love our own gain, and our own safety, and ease, more than the things of Christ; and therefore it is that we seek our own things, and not the things of Christ.
3. From that immoderate and inordinate worldly love which is in all men by Nature: for (as a Martyr well said at the stake) if we should unrip and anatomize a wicked man, we should finde nothing in him but self-love, and worldly love: by Nature we love the Creature m•e than the Creator, pleasures more than God, and the praise of Men, more than the praise of God. By nature we love our own gain, and our own safety, and ease, more than the things of Christ; and therefore it is that we seek our own things, and not the things of Christ.
4. From that hypocrisy, insincerity, and rottenness of heart which is in all men by nature, hence it is that men pretend Jesus Christ, but intend their own private interest, because of the hypocrisy and falseness of their hearts. Thus the Pharisees, who were Hypocrites, under pretence made long prayers that they might devour widows houses, Mat. 23. 14. Thus Herod pretends to worship Christ, when his intendment was to worry him, Mat 2. 8. Thus Jezebel proclaimeth a Fast, and pretends Religion, but intends only to put Naboth to death, and to get his Vineyard. Thus Absalom covers over his Rebellion with the fair cloak of Religion, 2 Sam. 15. 7. There are two things that are in all men by nature: