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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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3. Vain and unprofitable. For notwithstanding the excuses they made, it is said, verse 24. That none of these men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
3. Vain and unprofitable. For notwithstanding the excuses they made, it is said, verse 24. That none of these men which were bidden shall tast of my supper.
4. Unreasonable and unconscionable. For they made those things laqueos Diaboli, snares and impediments to hinder them from Christ, which would have been vincula obedientiae, motives and encouragements to bring them to Christ.
4. Unreasonable and unconscionable. For they made those things laqueos Diaboli, snares and impediments to hinder them from Christ, which would have been vincula obedientiae, motives and incouragements to bring them to Christ.
5. Lastly, If when thine own things and the things of Christ come in competition, and thou must either part with the one or the other, if thou choosest as Spyra did, and as the young man in the Gospel did, rather to part with Christ and his Gospel, than with thy profit and preferment, this is a sure note that thou seekest thine own things, before and more than the things of Christ. I read of Tiberius Emperor of Rome, that he sent to the Senate to receive Christ into the number of their Gods, but they refused to do it upon this account, because if they received him, they must reject all their other Gods, and therefore chose rather to renounce Jesus Christ, than to receive him, and part with the rest of their feigned Deities. If thou renouncest and rejectest the Lord Christ and his Truths, rather than thou wilt lose thy creature-enjoyments, thou art a sinful self-seeker of the highest form.