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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.
1. Because it is not made out of Passion, Faction, or any private discontent; but by a holy Man of God, as he was guided by the Holy Ghost: And therefore it is a true, and a most just complaint.
2. It is not spoken of the Heathens, who knew not 1Christ, (for it is no wonder for them that knew not Christ, not to seek the things of Christ) nor of Apostate Christians that had totally forsaken Christ; but (as Calvin and Estius observe) of Brethren and Fellow-labourers, of such Christians, that were not only baptized into the name of Christ, but also professed a great deal of Love outwardly to Christ and his cause, and yet it is said even of those, That they sought their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ, And therefore it is not only a true and a just, but a great, most sad and heavy charge.
2. It is not spoken of the Heathens, who knew not 1Christ, (for it is no wonder for them that knew not Christ, not to seek the things of Christ) nor of Apostate Christians that had totally forsaken Christ; but (as Calvin and Estius observe) of Brethren and Fellow-labourers, of such Christians, that were not onely baptized into the name of Christ, but also professed a great deale of Love outwardly to Christ and his cause, and yet it is said even of those, That they sought their owne, and not the things of Jesus Christ, And therefore it is not onely a true and a just, but a great, most sad and heavy charge.
- 1No• loquitur de i• qui planè abjece•ant studium […], sed de i• ip•s, quos pro fratribus habebat, in ò quos ferebat in su […]. Illos tamen ita calore dicitur rebus suis curandis ut sint ad opu Domini frigidiores. Calv. in loc. De Christians & Ministris Apostolo Sero est. Est. in loc.