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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.
Besides what is there said, give me leave to add:
Besides what is there said, give me leave to adde:
1. That it is one of the greatest curses under Heaven, for God to give a man over to his own hearts lust, to do whatsoever seems good in his own eyes, to make himself the principle, rule, and end of all his actions. Better be given over to the Devil, then to our selves. I read of one given over to Satan for his Salvation, but never of any given over to himself, 1but for his ruin and destruction.
1. That it is one of the greatest curses under Heaven, for God to give a man over to his owne hearts lust, to doe whatsoever seems good in his owne eyes, to make himselfe the principle, rule, and end of all his actions. Better be given over to the Devill, then to our selves. I read of one given over to Satan for his Salvation, but never of any given over to himselfe, 1but for his ruine and destruction.
2. That this sinful self-seeking is not only a sin that makes the times perilous, but our condition damnable. 1It shuts the man who is guilty of it unavoidably out of Heaven. When he dyes his Motto may be,