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…

Quest. 2. What is that self-seeking, which is inconsistent with Christ seeking?

Quest. 2. What is that selfe-seeking, which is inconsistent with Christ seeking?

Answ. It is a spiritual Monster with six heads.

Answ. It is a spirituall Monster with six heads.

1. When a Christian seeks his own things dividedly from the things of Christ, when he seeks his own case, safety and interest, and cares not at all what becomes of Jesus Christ, and his cause, when he sets up himself, and makes himself the principle, rule, and end of all his undertakings, acting from self as a principle, by self as a rule, for self as an end. When a Man makes himself his God, worshipeth himself, and doth whatsoever he doth for his carnal self, serves himself in Committees, Army, Parliament, Ministry, and cares not what becomes of Religion and Reformation. This is the first head of this Monster; such a self-seeker was Gallio the Deputy, Act. 18. 17. who cared not what became of Religion. If it had been a matter of wrong, he would have heard it, but because it was a matter of Religion, he cared for none of those things. Such self-seekers, were the people of M•roz, and therefore the Israelites were commanded to curse them, Judges 5. 23