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A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
If it be yet asked, If, and how, one is to love himself? Answ. Self-love is so connatural to us, that in effect it is the mediate result of our sense of life, and consequently the very relish and endearment of all enjoyments, the spring of self-preservation, and the best measure pointed out by our Lord himself, of the love and duty that we owe to others, which as it is the mean whereby we taste and see that God is good, and how great his goodness is to us, so it ought principally to refer it self, and all its pleasing objects, to him as the fountain of all, who is indeed Love; but yet it is that wherein ordinarily men do much exceed, as especially these following ways.
If it be yet asked, If, and how, one is to love himself? Answ. Self-love is so connatural to us, that in effect it is the mediate result of our sense of life, and consequently the very relish and endearment of all enjoyments, the spring of self-preservation, and the best measure pointed out by our Lord himself, of the love and duty that we owe to others, which as it is the mean whereby we taste and see that God is good, and how great his goodness is to us, so it ought principally to referr it self, and all its pleasing objects, to him as the fountain of all, who is indeed Love; but yet it is that wherein ordinarily men do much exceed, as especially these following wayes.
1. They exceed in it when themselves are proposed as the end of their own actions, as it is 2 Tim. 3.2. when their own things sway more with them, and are sought more by them then 1. the things of God, to which the first place is always due; and 2. then public things, and the things of others, even in the cases wherein these do require the preference.
1. They exceed in it when themselves are proposed as the end of their own actions, as it is 2 Tim. 3.2. when their own things sway more with them, and are sought more by them then 1. the things of God, to which the first place is alwayes due; and 2. then publick things, and the things of others, even in the cases wherein these do require the preference.