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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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5. It is a Sin that makes all our holy duties abominable in the sight of God. Though the actions we do be never so holy, yet if we do them upon politic designs, if we aim at our selves in what we do, the Lord abhors us and all we do, as we see in the Pharisees, who in their Alms, Prayers and Fastings, did all to be seen of men, and therefore God abhorred all they did. Self-aims pollute and putrefy all holy actions.
5. It is a Sin that makes all our holy duties abominable in the sight of God. Though the actions we doe be never so holy, yet if we do them upon politique designes, if we aim at our selves in what we do, the Lord abhorres us and all we do, as we see in the Pharisees, who in their Almes, Prayers and Fastings, did all to be seen of men, and therefore God abhorred all they did. Self-aimes pollute and putrifie all holy actions.
6. It is a sin of horrible Hypocrisy: for it is making use of Religion as a ladder to clime up to pre•ment, and then casting the ladder away; it is setting up God as a Pander to our ambitious and covetous interest, which is Hypocrisy, to be abhorred. This is uti Deo ut •ruamur nobismetipsis, which is no little transgression.
6. It is a sin of horrible Hypocrisie: for it is making use of Religion as a ladder to clime up to pre•ment, and then casting the ladder away; it is setting up God as a Pander to our ambitious and covetous interest, which is Hypocrisie, to be abhorsed. This is uti Deo ut •ruamur nobismetipsis, which is no little transgression.