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 Lord preserve you from this sin, and make you true ¹Common-wealth (not private-wealth) men. It becomes him, (saith a wise Heathen) who would be a great man to love neither himself, nor any thing that is his, but just things, whether done by himself, or by another.

The Lord preserve you from this sinne, and make you true ¹Common-wealth (not private-wealth) men. It becomes him, (saith a wise Heathen) who would be a great man to love neither himselfe, nor any thing that is his, but just things, whether done by himselfe, or by another.

1. 1Decet sa•è cum qui mag• vir futurus est, neque seipsum, neque s•a diligere; sed ju•a semp•r five ab ipso, five ab also geran•ur.

I have made bold to add a few lines to that discourse which I had before you concerning the blessed and heavenly self-seeking, wherein I show, That a self-denying, self-examining, self-judging Christian, is the truest self-seeker. That he that prefers the keeping of a good Conscience before the keeping of his Estate, or Life, the good of Church and State before his own good, is a blessed self seeker. He that loves himself and not God, loves not himself, and he that loves God and not himself, loves himself; according to that excellent saying of A•st. Nescio quo inexplicabili mod•, &c. I know not by what ¹