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So you see these words contain a complaint of that common condition that common frailty, that general disease and corruption to which all men are subject, every man is apt to seek his own things: every man is apt to it, and for the most part doth it, he seeks his own things, and not the things which are Jesus Christs.

So you see these words containe a complaint of that common condition that common frailty, that generall desease and corruption to which all men are subject, every man is apt to seek his owne things: every man is apt to it, and for the most part doth it, he seekes his own things, and not the things which are Jesus Christs.

The words are so plain that I need not to analyse, or open them, or stand long upon the exposition. These three things you shall see may very easily be observed out of them.

First, Whereas the Apostle complains of it as a great fault, and a sin, that men seek their own things, and not the things of Jesus Christ; one conclusion hence then is, that

First, Whereas the Apostle complaines of it as a great fault, and a sin, that men seek their own things, and not the things of Jesus Christ; one conclusion hence then is, that