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…

This ensuing Sermon was ordered by you to be printed, it hath stuck long in the birth, by reason of multitude of intervening impediments: Now at last it is come into the world, and is ¹here humbly presented to you, as an expression of that respect and service which I acknowledge to be due, and shall ever be ready to pay. The subject matter of it is to discover and Anatomize that ugly and deformed Monster of sinful self-seeking, and •o show the sinfulness and cursedness of it. There are two Cities (saith Austin) The City of God, and the City of the Devil: The City of God is begun and built up by the love of God, and increaseth, even to the hatred of our selves; but the City of the Devil, begins from the love of our selves, and increaseth, even to the hatred of God, by the contempt of our brethren; for he that hateth and contemneth his brother, will in a little while hate and contemn God. It cannot be denied, (no not by one made up of Charity) that there are many Citizens of this City of the Devil. Many who instead of loving God, to the contempt of themselves, love themselves to the contempt of