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The duty of self-denial briefly opened and urged. By Thomas Watson, minister of the…
The duty of self-denial briefly opened and urged. By Thomas Watson, minister of the Gospel
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1675
THE DUTY OF SELF-DENIAL. › Chapter 2: The Explaining of the Proposition.
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4. Your dark-side is broader than your light-side. Your ignorance is more than your knowledge. Your knowledge is but as the light of a Torch, your ignorance as the Cimmerian darkness. Job 26.14, How little a portion is known of God? The septuagint renders it, How little a drop! To think to comprehend the Deity, is as if we should go to span the Ocean. Christians, the greatest part of your knowledge, is not so much as the least part of your ignorance. This may demolish all high imaginations. ⟨p. 21⟩You have no cause to be conceited of the knowledge you have, but rather to be humbled for what you want.
4. Your dark-side is broader than your light-side. Your ignorance is more than your knowledg. Your knowledg is but as the light of a Torch, your ignorance as the Cimmerian darkness. Job 26.14, How little a portion is known of God? The septuagint renders it, How little a drop! To think to comprehend the Deity, is as if we should go to span the Ocean. Christians, the greatest part of your knowledg, is not so much as the least part of your ignorance. This may demolish all high imaginations. ⟨p. 21⟩You have no cause to be conceited of the knowledg you have, but rather to be humbled for what you want.
5. Think what an Hell of sin you carry about you. Sin is the accursed thing*. Josh. 5.13. It is the quintessence of evil. It is like a stain to beauty. It was Typified by the menstruous cloth, which was the most unclean thing under the Law