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…

What is the reason that the things of the Church drive on so slowly, like the Egyptian Chariots, when the wheels ⟨p. 21⟩were taken off? what is the reason that there is so much oppression and injustice in places of judicature? So much cozenage and false dealing in our commerce one with another, in a word, what is the cause of all our miseries both in Church and State? Is it not because all men seek their own, and not the thin•s of Jesus Christ? thus you have the greatness and the mischievousness of this sinful self-seeking. So much for the Explication of the Doctrine, I come now to the Application.

What is the reason that the things of the Church drive on so slowly, like the Egyptian Chariots, when the wheeles ⟨p. 21⟩were taken off? what is the reason that there is so much oppression and injustice in places of judicature? So much cousenage and false dealing in our commerce one with another, in a word, what is the cause of all our miseries both in Church and State? Is it not because all men seek their own, and not the thin•s of Jesus Christ? thus you have the greatnesse and the mischievousnesse of this sinfull selfe-seeking. So much for the Explication of the Doctrine, I come now to the Application.

Is this be so, that amongst the multitude of Christians that ¹profess love to Christ and his cause, there are many, yea very many, that •ek their own, and not the things of Christ. Let us then […] beseech you) behold as in a glass, the sinfulness and miserableness of the times wherein we live, for if the Apostle compla• of his times, which were the first and the best times, the golden Age, the Primitive, Apostolical, Virgin-Church, when the Saints of God met together in one place, with one accord, much more may we of our times, which are the last and worst, the iron age, wherein the Church of Christ is woefully divided, and wonderfully Apostatized: How justly (I say) may we take up this sad complaint against our tes: All men seek thi own, not the things of Jesus Christ?