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Heautonaparnumenos
Heautonaparnumenos: or A treatise of self-denial. Intended for the pulpit; but now committed to the press for the public benefit.Heautonaparnumenos: or A treatise of self-denyall. Intended for the pulpit; but now committed to the presse for the publike benefit.
London: printed by W. Wilson for Richard Royston, 1646
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.
This that we may do, you may remember, what I told you even now, that to Deny our selves in Logic or Reason was to contradict our Being: tollere, to avoid and take it away. Not that we are to endeavour our own Annihilation, for besides that that were Impossible for us, to that nothing is more contrary then Selfdenyall, but to endeavour to disannul our Self-being, & totally to depend upon God. So then in our Self-denial we are wholly to renounce and abjure the Being of our own: and, if we be not our own, whose else should we be, but Gods? His then we are by two main Titles; Our Creation, and Re-creation or Redemption, which is the Title of our Creation re-inforced.
This that we may doe, you may remember, what I told you even now, that to Deny our selves in Logick or Reason was to contradict our Being: tollere, to avoid and take it away. Not that we are to endeavour our owne Annibilation, for besides that that were Impossible for us, to that nothing is more contrary then Selfdenyall, but to endevour to disannuall our Self-being, & totally to depend upon God. So then in our Self-denyall we are wholly to renounce and abjure the Being of our owne: and, if we be not our own, whose else should we be, but Gods? His then we are by two main Titles; Our Creation, and Re-creation or Redemption, which is the Title of our Creation re-inforc't.
As for the Title of our Creation; That plainly demonstrates §1this Nullity of Being our own, and our Total dependence upon God. For I told you what Creation was; Such an act of God, whereby the Creature is wholly and solely of and from Him, and of nothing else in the World. So then no Creature is of it self; and if not of it self, it is not its own, but another's, to wit, God's for Him; therefore it must be made: whence Reason argues thus. No Creature is by God made for it self: But Man is one of God's Creatures, Ergo. The Minor we take to be confessed on all hands. The Major is to be proved: And first that de facto, it is so, then that de jure, it should be so. For the first, in the Creation of things we find, that All things were by God made, not for themselves but, for some higher end, which End, the Wise man tells us, was no other but Himself,