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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1753 Excerpt: ...appear a sinner; and yet I am as earnest in committing it as if it was honourable.. I am ashamed to be punished, lest I should pass for a wicked person; and I am satisfied with myself when, by offending thee, I accomplish my own will. I am ready to recover with my blood the honour people deprive me of, when they say of me what I really am; and my greatest care is to be in effect, what I cannot bear to be called by others. O strange blindness! O deplorable disorder! I love the evil which destroys me, and I hate the acknowledgment of it which would heal me. I give way to the love of sin, that I may taste the pleasure of it; and I feel the hatred thereof only because I fear its remedy. There is as much evil in hating sin thus as in loving it: for I love it in order to commit it always, and I hate it in order to love it longer. VI. This disorder produces another, which is no less unreasonable. I believe with a firm faith that thou art my sovereign Lord, and that thou beholdest me. I know by experience that men who see me are weak and miserable. I am persuaded that I may be condemned to an eternal punishment by thy ever equitable judgment, and that the judgment of men, how unjust soever it may be, cannot hurt me but for a short time. I know that I am truly what I am in thy sight, and not what I appear to the eyes of men. I know also that I cannot make myself better than I am: and with all these knowledges I blush not, O my God! to be in thy sight what I am; and I leek to appear before men what I am not,' against the very testimony of my own conscience. I cannot however conceal from myself the corruption of my own heart, though I let others fee nothing but a plain and regular exterior: I affect ways full of chastity, and am full of impure desires; I desire to be ...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235928675
- ISBN 13 9781235928673
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages74
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