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A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…
A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews viz, on the sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, and tenth chapters : wherein together with the explication of the text and context, the priesthood of Christ ... are declared, explained and confirmed : as also, the pleas of the Jews for the continuance and perpetuity of their legal worship, with the doctrine of the principal writers of the Socinians about these things, are examined and disproved / by J. Owen ...
London: printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1680
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. Self-love; This is diametrically opposed unto it. Self-love is the making a mans self his own Centre, the beginning and ending of all that he doth. It makes men grudge every drop of good that falls besides themselves; and whoever is under the power of it, will not willingly and cheerfully do that for another, which he thinks he can do for himself. This is the measure of self; whatever is added unto it, it doth not satisfy; it would still have more: and whatever goeth from it, on one account or other it is too much, it doth not please. Unless this be in some good measure subdued, mortified, and cast out, there can be no exercise of Love. And hereunto labour is required. For man being turned off from God is wholly turned into himself. And without an holy violence unto all our Affections as naturally depraved, we can never be freed from an inclination to centre all in self. And these things are directly contradictory. Self-love, and Love of the Saints, are like two Buckets, proportionably unto the rising of the one, the other goeth down. Look unto what degree soever we arise in self-love, whatever else we do, and whatever our works may be, to the same proportion do we sink in Christian Love.
1. Self-love; This is diametrically opposed unto it. Self-love is the making a mans self his own Centre, the beginning and ending of all that he doth. It makes men grudge every drop of good that falls besides themselves; and whoever is under the power of it, will not willingly and chearfully do that for another, which he thinks he can do for himself. This is the measure of self; whatever is added unto it, it doth not satisfie; it would still have more: and whatever goeth from it, on one account or other it is too much, it doth not please. Unless this be in some good measure subdued, mortified, and cast out, there can be no exercise of Love. And hereunto labour is required. For man being turned off from God is wholly turned into himself. And without an holy violence unto all our Affections as naturally depraved, we can never be freed from an inclination to centre all in self. And these things are directly contradictory. Self-love, and Love of the Saints, are like two Buckets, proportionably unto the rising of the one, the other goeth down. Look unto what degree soever we arise in self-love, whatever else we do, and whatever our works may be, to the same proportion do we sink in Christian Love.