... felves are in their Kind , in their Grounds , in their Measures conformable to Reason , Piety and Justice , then is our Self - love innocent or worthy : if they are not fo , it is criminal and vicious . If we do rightly esteem our felves ...
... felves , and not to God . But that I certainly know this Objection is commonly made , and have seen it in very Confiderable Authors , I could not believe that Men of fo good fenfe could make it . For this is to fay , that if we do any ...
... felves are in their Kind , in their Grounds , in their Measures conformable to Reason , Piety , and Juftice , then is our Self - love innocent or worthy , if they are not fo , it is criminal and vicious . If we do rightly esteem our felves ...
... felves , and confeffing our Faults , partly in condemning our felves for the Faults we have committed , and partly in exercifing Acts of Justice , and executing Judgment upon our felves , of which we are to speak in order . II . The ...
... felves . The Laws which he gives us , we would correct and find fault with ; and if we had the making of them , we would have made them otherwise : When he should take care of us , ( and muft , or we perifh ) we will care : for our felves ...
... felves . Seeing you are to take heed to others , you are in a more fpecial manner to take heed to your felves . 2. You should not quench it in others , and therefore not quench it in your felves : Because , if you quench the Spirit in your ...
... felves out of them , we do any thing contrary to our Duty and a good Confcience ; for this is the meaning of committing our felves to God in well - doing . Thirdly , To fhew what Ground of Comfort and Encouragement the Confide- ration ...
... felves in . For thus accuftoming our felves to cross our own Ap- petītes in fome Things , it will be the cafier for us to cross them in others ; and not using to indulge our felves in the Gratifications of Senfe , when we fit at al full ...
... felves . of our The oppofites to the profeffi- on of truth concerning our felves . Arrogancy & boasting . Either the opprobrious obloquies of Railers , or the rumours and whifpe- rings of Back - biters and Sycophants , against which we ...
... felves ; an when we are exhorted to judge our felves , it is not oblige us , to beg of God to fend Judgments upon us but it is to do fomething whereby the Judgment of Go we have defery'd , may be prevented and averted ; an upon ...