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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
But you will say, this is a hard, and difficult thing for a man to seek the things of Jesus Christ after this 1manner, who is able thus to do them? So to do them, in sincerity, and with diligence, and faithfulness, as not to mingle any self-respect, or aim at his own ends?
But you will say, this is a hard, and difficult thing for a man to seek the things of Jesus Christ after this 1manner, who is able thus to do them? So to do them, in sincerite, and with diligence, and faithfulness, as not to mingle any self-respect, or aim at his own ends?
- 1Object.
I answer, it is true, and the holiest men that are, have some such tincture in their best actions; but they are not to be discouraged, so it be not the chief: but they are to be humbled, and to strive against it. And this use (by the way) you may make of it, that a man may see how little cause he hath to be puffed up, or to be conceited for his best actions, if he consider how unfaithfully he hath done them; how unwillingly, how negligently. But I say though these things be in us, we are not to think that the things we do are presently done in hypocrisy. The thing that we are to look to is that those aims, and respects to our selves that are mingled with our best actions, do not prevail that we do not allow them in our selves.
I answer, it is true, and the holiest men that are, have some such tincture in their best actions; but they are not to be discouraged, so it be not the chief: but they are to be humbled, and to strive against it. And this use (by the way) you may make of it, that a man may see how little cause he hath to be puffed up, or to be conceited for his best actions, if he consider how unfaithfully he hath done them; how unwillingly, how negligently. But I say though these things be in us, we are not to think that the things we do are presently done in hypocrisie. The thing that we are to look to is that those aimes, and respects to our selves that are mingled with our best actions, do not prevail that we do not allow them in our selves.