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…

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 t•es: All men seek th•i own, not the things of Jesus Christ?

Is this be so, that amongst the multitude of Christians that ¹professe love to Christ and his cause, there are many, yea very many, that •ek their owne, and not the things of Christ. Let us then 〈…〉 beseech you) behold as in a glasse, the sinfulnesse and miserablenesse 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 wofully divided, and wonderfully Apostatized: How justly (I say) may we take up this sad complaint against our t•es: All men seek th•i owne, not the things of Jesus Christ?

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