... 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 . There's never a perfon in this Congregation knows what day of difficulty and temptation is coming over him ; not one of you knows what hot fervice God hath yet for you : Little did Abraham think a day before , to hear that ...

... felves , in things con- cerning God , and our neighbours ; but also how we behave our felves towards our felves , and in our owne affaires and goods : because , our love to our felves , is the rule of our love to our neighbours ; whom ...

... 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 ...