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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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4. It is a great and hidden iniquity, an inward, invisible, and spiritual sin, that consumes England as a moth, not as a Lion: It is threatened, Hos. 5. 12. 14. That God would be to Ephraim as a Moth, and as a Lion, Murder, Adultery, Sodomy, injustice, &c. devours England as a Lion, but self-love and self seeking destroys it as a Moth secretly, and yet certainly: Let us therefore be very serious in the work of self-trying.
4. It is a great and hidden iniquity, an inward, invisible, and spirituall sinne, that consumes England as a moth, not as a Lion: It is threatned, Hos. 5. 12. 14. That God would be to Ephraim as a Moth, and as a Lion, Murder, Adultery, Sodomy, injustice, &c. devoures England as a Lion, but selfe-love and selfe seeking destroies it as a Moth secretly, and yet certainly: Let us therefore be very serious in the worke of selfe-trying.
There are three sorts of men whom I indict as guilty of this sinful and cursed self-seeking.
There are three sorts of men whom I indict as guilty of this sinfull and cursed selfe-seeking.
1. Such as seek their own things, and not at all the things of Christ. 2. Such as seek their own things before, and more than the things of Christ. 3. Such as pretend to seek the things of Christ, but seek their own things, under the colour of seeking the things of Christ.
1. Such as seek their owne things, and not at all the things of Christ. 2. Such as seek their own things before, and more than the things of Chist. 3. Such as pretend to seek the things of Christ, but seek their owne things, under the colour of seeking the things of Christ.