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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.
To move you to this, consider,
1. What these your own things are which you so immoderately and inordinately seek after?
1. They are not your own in a proper sense, as you have heard.
1. They are not your owne in a proper sence, as you have heard.
2. They are not Worth owning, they are vain and empty, empty of reality, and Soul-satisfaction, they are vanishing & perishing, like houses made of Snow or wax, and not only so, but they are also vexing and tormenting, according to what is said by one that had full and ample experience of them, Eccles. 2. 2, 17, 26.
2. They are not Worth owning, they are vain and empty, empty of reality, and Soul-satisfaction, they are vanishing & perishing, like houses made of Snow or waxe, and not only so, but they are also vexing and tormenting, according to what is said by one that had full and ample experience of them,