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THE
PRACTICAL WORKS
OF THE
REV. RICHARD BAXTER.
VOLUME XVI.
CONTAINING
THE MISCHIEFS OF SELF-IGNORANCE, AND BENEFITS OF SELF- ACQUAINTANCE; THE TRUE CATHOLIC, AND CATHOLIC CHURCH DESCRIBED; CATHOLIC UNITY; MAKING
LIGHT OF CHRIST AND SALVATION, TOO OFT THE ISSUE OF GOSPEL INVITATIONS.
R. EDWARDS, CRANE COURT, FLEET STREET, LONDON.
CONTENTS
OF
THE SIXTEENTH VOLUME.
THE MISCHIEFS OF SELF-IGNORANCE, AND
BENEFITS OF SELF-ACQUAINTANCE.
Self-knowledge, what; and how many sorts
How far it is a shame to be ignorant of ourselves
The mischiefs of self-ignorance, 1. It cherisheth atheism..
2. Causeth ignorance of the life to come
3. And of the evil of sin..
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11. It makes men quarrel with God's word and ministers
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19. It makes men repine at God's providence..
20. It makes men lose their time, and neglect preparations
Discovered by some effects: 1. By men's unhumbleness
2. By the abounding of hypocrisy 61-3. By the love
of flattery, and impatience of plain reproof 65-
4. By men's partiality 65-5. When every man would
be a rule to others 68-6. By the great change that
approaching death, or other awaking providences make
69-7. By men's quarrelling with others in their
sufferings, and overlooking the great cause in them-
selves 73-The discovery prosecuted
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1. If
you
Motives.
know not yourselves, you cannot repent
2. Nor be duly sensible of your misery
3. Nor indeed by Christians
4. You will not know what to do with yourselves..
5. You will not know how to apply the word
6. Nor how to confess or pray
7. Nor how to give thanks.
8. Nor how to receive the Lord's-supper
9. All your studies will be irrational, preposterous, &c.
10. You will be much unuseful to others
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11. You cannot well proceed to know extrinsic things
12. How many things have you to know about yourselves
Exhortation
Caution against excessive studying of ourselves
Information: Why the sincere can discourse so fully and
Who need this caution
And why they are so full in prayer, and others so empty
The excuses of the prayerless answered
Why the upright are so prone to self-accusing.
Motives to the Ungodly.
1. If you know not yourselves, you know not whether you
must dwell in heaven or hell.....
2. All shall shortly know themselves..
3. And be surprised to find themselves in a mistake................
How useful a companion conscience is to converse with...
4. It is Satan's chief design to keep yourself ignorant
Yet some can go on in known misery
A threefold despair....
In what cases the sincere may go on in sin against knowledge
But the ordinarily self-knowledge would do much....................
Information: Why faithful ministers search so deep, and
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What Christianity is, and who sincere in the covenant
Who certainly are uncrate
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speak so hardly of unrenewed souls
Questions to the unsanctified
Exhortation to the Regenerate.
I. 1. To know their sins, 2. Their graces.
self-knowledge
1. For want of
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1. You confess not sin as you ought to God or man 169- 2. You pray not against it, or for grace as you ought 170-3. You are negligent in your watch ibid.---- 4. Seek not help 171-5. Lie in unobserved sins
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