SUPPORT US, GET THIS KINDLE FOR ONLY $0.99 Nothing below Heaven is worth setting our hearts upon! Keep up a humble sense of your own faults—and that will make you compassionate to others. If you have anything to be proud of, remember that it is not your own, but has been given or lent to…
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PLEASE SUPPORT US. CONSIDER DOWNLOADING THIS KINDLE FOR ONLY $0.99. Thanks for your support READ THIS BOOK, SELF-DENIAL, ONLINE, BY RICHARD BAXTER. “SELD DENIAL IS NOT AN OPTION, BUT MANDATORY FOR TRUE CHRISTIANS.“ Without self denial, you are nothing but a nominal christian. QUOTES ON THE DUTY OF Self-Denial A bad Jacob’s ladder to climb…
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CHAP. IX. THE GREAT POWER AND PREVALENCY OF SELFISHNESS DISCOVERED [cpDonation key=’1′] And that you may see what causes we have for our Lamentation: Consider the greatness of selfish Tyranny in these Particulars. Consider what a Power it is that self beareth down in the world: The Commands of the God of heaven are overcome…
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CHAP. VIII. THE PARTIALITY OF MENS PRACTICAL JUDGEMENT IN THEIR OWN CASE [cpDonation key=’1′] Another Discovering instance of the Dominion of Self, is, The strange Partiality of men’s practical Judgements when the Cause is their own; and the equity of their judgements when the Case is another mans. For particular instances of this, you may…
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CHAP. VII. MENS EXCEEDING TENDERNESS OF SELF IN CASE OF ANY SUFFERING [cpDonation key=’1′] Another Discovering instance of the Dominion of self, and the scarcity of self-dental is, The exceeding tenderness of ourselves in any case of suffering, and the great matter that we make of it, and our displeasure against all that are the…
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Use. 1. AND now we have seen from the words of Christ the absolute Necessity of self-denial, and that there is no true Christianity nor salvation without it; let us next take a view of ourselves, and of the world, and Judge of our condition by this certain Rule. Look well into your selves, and…
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Another instance Discovering the Reign of selfishness in the world, is, The great Power that it hath to form men’s Opinions and Conceptions in Religion. Though the understanding naturally be inclined to Truth, yet a selfish by as upon the soul, especially on the will, doth commonly delude it, and make the vilest error seem…
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Beside all the generals already mentioned, it will not be amiss to give you some particular Instances of the power of selfishness, and the rareness of self-denial in the world, that you may see what cause of lamentation is before us. How ready and speedy, how effectual and diligent, how constant and unwearied are they…
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I have already spoken of Conversion in the foregoing Discourse, both opening to you the true nature of it, and the reasons of its necessity, and persuading men thereunto. But lest so great a work should miscarry with any for want of a more particular explication, I should next open the three great parts of…
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READER, I here present to your serious consideration, a Subject of such Necessity and Consequence, that the Peace and safety of Churches, Nations, Families and souls do lie upon it. The Eternal God was the Beginning and the End, the Interest, the attractive, the confidence, the desire, the delight, the All of man in his…
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