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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
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.
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.
7. It is Idolatry in the highest degree; it is [Greek or Hebrew] a worshipping of self; it is making our selves and our own interest, the root, rule, and scope of all our undertakings, which is to ⟨p. 20⟩make an Idol of our selves and to usurp the throne of God. It is Idolatry against the first Commandment, which is greater than Idolatry against the second, by how much the heart is better than the knee.
7. It is Idolatry in the highest degree; it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a worshipping of self; it is making our selves and our own interest, the root, rule, and scope of all our undertakings, which is to ⟨p. 20⟩make an Idoll of our selves and to usurp the throne of God. It is Idolatry against the first Commandement, which is greater than Idolatry against the second, by how much the heart is better than the knee.