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THE
PRACTICAL WORKS
OF THE
REV. RICHARD BAXTER.
VOLUME XVI.
CONTAININ
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.
VOL. XVI.
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THE MISCHIEFS OF SELF-IGNORANCE, AND
BENEFITS OF SELF-ACQUAINTANCE.
PAGB
EPISTLE DEDICATORY, &c.
iii
The Text opened
33
Self-knowledge, what; and how many sorts ...
34
How far it is a shame to be ignorant of ourselves
The mischiefs of self-ignorance, 1. It cherisheth atheism.. 37
2. Causeth ignorance of the life to come
3. And of the evil of sin...
ibid.
4. It keepeth the soul from true humiliation
41
5. It maketh Christ undervalued ....
6. It makes a holy conversation vilified
42
7. It makes men cheated by the world.
43
8. It causeth pride
44
9. It makes men run into temptations.
45
10. It makes temptations prevalent •
46
11. It makes men quarrel with God's word and ministers ibid.
* 12. It destroyeth charity
47
13. It is the cause of church-divisions..
48
14. It maketh men troublers of the state
15. It causeth errors.
52
16. It makes men unjust
53
17. It makes men unthankful
18. It is an enemy to true peace and joy...
19. It makes men repine at God's providence,...
54
20. It makes men lose their time, and neglect preparations
for death.
55
Use.
Self-ignorance detected and reproved
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 63-
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,orotherawaking 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
b
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Motives.
1. If you know not yourselves, you cannot repent
2. Nor be duly sensible of your misery
3. Nor indeed by Christians
80
4. You will not know what to do with yourselves.
86
5. You will not know how to apply the word
88
6. Nor how to confess or pray
90
7. Nor how to give thanks
93
8. Nor how to receive the Lord's-supper
96
9. All your studies will be irrational, preposterous, &c. 97
10. You will be much unuseful to others
101
11. You cannot well proceed to know extrinsic things
103
12. How many things have you to know about yourselves 105
Exhortation
106
Caution against excessive studying of ourselves
108
Who need this caution ..
110
Information : Why the sincere can discourse so fully and
savourily about heart-affairs ...,
116
And why they are so full in prayer, and others so empty .: 117
The excuses of the prayerless answered ..
118
Why the upright are so prone to self-accusing.
123
Motives to the Ungodly.
1. If you know not yourselves, you know not whether you
must dwell in heaven or hell....
124
2. All shall shortly know themselves...
126
3. And be surprised to find themselves in a mistake..... 132
How useful a companion conscience is to converse with.... 130
4. It is Satan's chief design to keep yourself ignorant.. 134
Yet some can go on in known misery
199
A threefold despair.....
141
In what cases the sincere may go on in sin against knowledge 142
But the ordinarily self-knowledge would do much..
143
Information: Why faithful ministers search so deep, and
speak go hardly of unrenewed souls
147
Questions to the unsanctified
158
What Christianity is, and who sincere in the covenant 163
Who certainly are unregenerate
164
Exhortation to the Regenerate.
1. 1. To know their sins, 2. Their
graces,
1. For want of
self-knowledge
168
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 192