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…

1. It is a sin against the express words of the Scripture. The Apostle saith, 1 Corin. 10. 24. Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. The sinful self-seeker lies Antipodes to this Text, he seeks his own, and not another's wealth.

1. It is a sin against the expresse words of the Scripture. The Apostle saith, 1 Corin. 10. 24. Let no man seek his owne, but every man anothers wealth. The sinfull selfe-seeker lvies Antipodes to this Text, he seeks his own, and not anothers wealth.

2. It is a sin against the light of nature. Nature it self teacheth us, that no man is born for himself, but for the good of the Common-wealth, in which he lives. The very Heathens abominate a self-seeker.

3. It is a sin against the pattern that Christ hath left us: For he came into the world, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him; he pleased not himself, Rom. 15. 2. he made ⟨p. 19⟩himself of no reputation, he humbled himself, and became obedient, even to the death of the Cross: He denied himself so far, as to be made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now it is a certain Maxim, That he who doth not follow the example of Christs life, shall never have any benefit by the merit of his death: Christ is meritum only to those to whom he is exemplum.