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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.
Know therefore that there is a threefold self-seeking.
Know therefore that there is a threefold selfe-seeking.
1. There is a lawful and an allowed self-seeking. 2. There is not only a lawful, but a heavenly and blessed self-seeking. 3. There is a sinful, cursed. and Diabolical self-seeking.
1. There is a lawfull and an allowed selfe-seeking. 2. There is not onely a lawfull, but a heavenly and blessed selfe-seeking. 3. There is a sinfull, cursed. and Diabolicall selfe-seeking.
1. There is a lawful self-seeking, and that is, when a Christian seeks his own private gain and honour in the last place, and in the least place, when he seeks the things of Christ, in the first and chief place, and his own things lesser, and after the things of Christ, when he seeks his own things, not in separation from, opposition to, competition with, but in subordination to the things of Christ. In a word, when a Christian seeks his own things in due order and measure, so as not to hinder, but to further his seeking the things of Christ, this is a lawful self-seeking.
1. There is a lawfull selfe-seeking, and that is, when a Christian seeks his owne private gaine and honour in the last place, and in the least place, when he seeks the things of Christ, in the first and chiefe place, and his owne things lesser, and after the things of Christ, when he seeks his owne things, not in separation from, opposition to, competition with, but in subordination to the things of Christ. In a word, when a Christan seeks his own things in due order and measure, so as not to hinder, but to further his seeking the things of Christ, this is a lawfull selfe-seeking.