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…

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 ¹unexpressable way, but sure I am of this truth, That he that loves himself, and not God, loves not himself; and he that loves God, and not himself, he loves himself. For he that cannot live of himself, dies presently by loving himself; but when he is loved from whom, and by whom we live, in not loving himself, he loves himself the more, because therefore he loves not himself, that he might love him by whom he lives.

I have made bold to adde a few lines to that discourse which I had before you concerning the blessed and heavenly self-seeking, wherein I shew, That a selfe-denying, selfe-examining, selfe-judging Christian, is the truest selfe-seeker. That he that preferres 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 selfe seeker. He that loves himselfe and not God, loves not himselfe, and he that loves God and not himselfe, loves himselfe; according to that excellent saying of A•st. Nescio quo inexplicabili mod•, &c. I know not by what ¹unexpressable way, but sure I am of this truth, That he that loves himselfe, and not God, loves not himselfe; and he that loves God, and not himselfe, he loves himselfe. For he that cannot live of himselfe, dies presently by loving himselfe; but when he is loved from whom, and by whom we live, in not loving himselfe, he loves himselfe the more, because therefore he loves not himselfe, that he might love him by whom he lives.

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