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A32041	The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomizd together with a description of the heavenly and blessed selfe-seeking : in a sermon preached at Pauls the 10. of December, 1654 / by Edm. Calamy, B.D. ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing C259; ESTC R15527	29,832	44

of his body and neglects the welfare of his soule destroyes as I have said both body and soul This is just as if a Husbandman in time of Harvest should gather in his stubble leave his corne to be devoured by hoggs Just like a Father who takes care to feed cloath his children but not to instruct and teach them In a word he that seeks his owne ease and safety his owne gaine and credit his owne pleasure and satisfaction and neglecteth and slighteth the things of Christ this Man is the greatest selfe-hater and selfe-destroyer For he that sesks not the interest of Christ shall never have any interest in Christ 2. To beseech you to labour for the divine heavenly and blessed self-seeking mentioned in the beginning of the Sermon Physitians when they see men bleed immoderately at the nose will let them bloud in another veine that so they may make a diversion and thereby stop the bleeding Oh that God would use me this day as his instrument to make a most glorious and most happy diversion and to turn you all from self-seekers into Christ-seekers Oh that I could prevaile with you to seek the things of Jesus Christ before and more then your own things Oh how happy would London be if it could be said of it All thy Magistrates Ministers and private people seek the things of Christ more vigorously and cordially then they doe their own things To move you to this consider 1. What these your own things are which you so immoderately and inordinately seek after 1. They are not your owne in a proper sence as you have heard 2. They are not Worth owning they are vain and empty empty of reality and Soul-satisfaction they are vanishing perishing like houses made of Snow or waxe and not only so but they are also vexing and tormenting according to what is said by one that had full and ample experience of them Eccles. 2. 2 17 26. 2. Consider the excellency of the things of Jesus Christ which you so much neglect undervalue The truths of Christ the Ordinances Day Ministry and Government of Christ the Preservaon Propagation and Reformation of Religion These are Glorious and Excellent things in their own Nature and so far exceeding your own things which you so greedily labour after that they are not worthy to be named that day in which we speak of the things of Christ I want time to set out the transcendent Glory and Excellency of Gospel concernments and the vanity emptinesse and nothingnesse of all our own Earthly enjoyments Onely let me desire you to take notice 1. That Jesus Christ sought not his owne things he left Heaven for us and shall not we neglect Earth for him 2. For what poor trifles you despise the glorious things of the Gospel 3. If you seek not after the things of Christ more then your owne you are in a cursed condition and better you had never been borne 4. The things of Jesus Christ shall prosper though you seek not the prosperity of them What Mordecai said to Ester in another case I crave leave to say to you Enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the people of God from another place but thou and thy Fathers house shall be destroyed There will a time come when the Mountaine of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the Mountaines and shall be exalted above the Hills and all Nations shall flow to it when the Kingdomes of this world shall become the Kingdomes of our Lord and his Christ when the little stone cuts out of the Mountaine without hands shall destroy all opposite Kingdomes and become a great Mountaine and fill the whole earth when every Nation and Kingdome that will not serve the Lord Jesus shall perish and be utterly wasted For neglecting to set up this Kingdome of Christ God hath destroyed many Nations and Kingdomes and so he will us if we follow their examples If we preferre the building of our owne houses before the building of Gods house God will build up his owne house by other instruments but he will destroy us and our Houses 3. Lastly Consider That man seeks himselfe most who most seeketh the things of Christ He that is the greatest Christ-seeker is the greatest selfe seeker For God hath said Seek ye first the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and all these things shall be added unto you When Solomon begged wisdome God gave him wealth and riches as an overplus If we seek the things of Christ in the first and chiefe place God will give in our own things into the bargaine even as Paper and thred is added to a bought commodity Thus I have put an end to the Sermon of selfe-seeking Oh that I could put an end to the sinne of selfe-seeking Two things I dare affirme 1. That this sin hath been the Originall cause of all Englands miseries 2. That it will never be well with England nor shall we ever see better dayes till this sinne be mortified Let us goe to Christ and labour by Faith to fetch power from his Death to crucifie and mortifie this sinne Let it be our daily prayer that England may have more Christ-seekers and fewer selfe-seekers or which is all one That God would make us all true selfe-seekers by making us true Christ-seekers FINIS ERRATA PAge 2. line 18. Their owne what in the marg. put into the Text next after their owne p. 3. l. 28. leave out the figure 4. and joyne the line to the foregoing p. 7. l. 7. for could r. would p. 9. l. 33. for haugtinesse r. naughtinesse p. 17. l. 14. for blasphemous r. blasphemers p. 18. l. 29 for ●vies r. lives p. 19. l. 17. for vel amicitia r. non amicitiae p 19. l. 23. for abhorsed r. abhorred p. 2● l. 3. for runam r. ruinam ibid l. 33. for thy r. the p. 24. l. 36. for would r. should p. 33. l. 25. for builing r. building Civitas Dei incipit et construitur ex amore Dei et crescit ad odium suiipfius Civitas vero Diaboli incipit ab amore sui et crescit usque ad odium Dei per contemptum proximorum Qui enim proximū odit et contemnit mox etiam Deum odio babebit et contemnit Aug de Civ. Dei lib. 1. 1 Cor. 5. 5. ● Tim. 3. 2. Decet sa●è cum qui mag● vir futurus est neque seipsum neque s●a diligere sed ju●a semp●r five ab ipso five ab also geran●ur Nescio quo inexplicabili mod● quisqu● 〈◊〉 non Deum amat non se am●t quisqu● D●um non s●psum amat ip●e se amat Qui enim non potest vivere d● se mo●itur utique amando se cum ve●ò ille dil●gitur de quo vivitur ●on se diligendo mag● diligit qui prop●rca se non diligit ut cum diligat de quo vivit Aug de T●ctat 123 in Joanne● Neh. 2. 10. Psal. 137. 6. No● loquitur de i● qui planè abjece●ant studium 〈◊〉 sed de i● ip●s quos pro fratribus habebat in ò quos ferebat in su● 〈◊〉 Illos tamen ita calore dicitur rebus suis curandis ut sint ad opu● Domini frigidiores Calv. in loc. De Christians Ministris Apostolo Ser●o est Est. in loc. Their own 〈◊〉 Non ita accipi● quasi suis tantum commodis intenti nullam p●or us Ecclesiaecura 〈◊〉 haberunt sed quod impl● it● privatis co●dis ad publicum Ecclesiae bonum p●omovendum negligentiores erant Calv. in loc. ●in Prop. 1. Prop. 2. Prop. 3. Prop. 4. Prop. 5. Prop. 6. Prop. 7. Prop. 8. Qu. 4. Applicat Titus 1. 11. Rom. 16. 18. 2 Pet. 2. 2. 1 Tim. 6. 5. Mat. 7. 15. 2. Use Exhort 1. Exhort 2. Ester 4 14. Isaiah 2 2. Rev. 11. 15. Dan. 4. 35. 41 45. Isa 6. 60. 12.

Moth and as a Lion Murder Adultery Sodomy injustice c. devoures England as a Lion but selfe-love and selfe seeking destroies it as a Moth secretly and yet certainly Let us therefore be very serious in the worke of selfe-trying There are three sorts of men whom I indict as guilty of this sinfull and cursed selfe-seeking 1. Such as seek their owne things and not at all the things of Christ 2. Such as seek their own things before and more than the things of Ch●ist 3. Such as pretend to seek the things of Christ but seek their owne things under the colour of seeking the things of Christ 1. Such as seek their owne credit profit preferment ease and safety and not at all the things of Christ It is reported of Agrippina the Mother of Ner● who being told that if ever her Son came to be Emperor he would put her to death she answered ●eream ego modo ille imperet Let me perish so he may be Emperour There are many such who say in their hearts Perat religio modo ego imperem So I may get an estate and grow great in the world no matter what becomes of Religion and Reformation Quest Are there any Christians of this minde Answ. There are many who are called Christians at large of this minde who have the name and but the name of Christians and carry this name as Uriah did his Letters to Joab Non ad salutem sed ad runam not for Salvation but Damnation you shall know them by this Character Let such men as these have their trading as formerly enjoy outward prosperity and be freed from taxes they will thinke themselves sufficiently happy It is all one to them whether all Religions be tolerated or none at all These men say with Tiberius the Emperour Diis Deorum curae sunto Let God take care of Religion all our care is for our outward estate these are they that make their Money their God who minde earthly things whose end is damnation of whom I may say as Christ of Iudas better they had never been borne 2. Such as seek their own things before and more than the things of Christ who seek their own interest more cordially more industriously and more vigorously than the interest of Religion Thus did the Gaderens as you have heard thus doe most Christians Quest How shall I know whether I preferre in my judgement affections or conversation my owne outward interest before the interest of Christ and the Gospel Answ 1. If the seeking of thine own things take up the first best and most of thy time If thy marrow and strength of thy Soule goe out after them if thou makest them thy {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} thy Primum quaerite and unum necessarium and the things of Christ thy {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and idle houre If the seeking of thine own make thee neglect the things of Christ or seek after them negligently this a signe that thou dost over-value and over-affect thine owne things and undervalue and dis-affect the things of Christ 2. If thou mournest more for personall miseries than for the desolations of Sion it is a signe thou mindest thine owne things more than the things of Christ this is a frame of spirit quite opposite to true Saintship Ezra Nehemiah David Daniel and Ieremiah were more afflicted with the miseries of the Church then their owne 3. If the seeking of thine own things take away thy courage for Christ and his cause and make thee come to Christ by night as Nichodemus did and the more thou hast of the world the lesse thou appearest for Christ and his Gospel the more honours the more fearfull If the preserving of thine owne things make thee betray the things of Christ by sinfull silence or base cowardise this is a sign thou preferrest thine own interest before the interest of Christ 4. If the seeking of thine own things make thee seek to find out excuses and vaine pretences to hinder thee from appearing for Christ this is a sign c I read Luke 14 18. when the Servant was sent to fetch the Guests to the great Supper of the Gospel they all with one consent began to make excuse c. The times wherein we live are very sinfull and perillous the Truths and Ministry of Christ are trampled under feet Religion and Reformation neglected Now God by us his Ambassadors calls upon you to appear for his Truths and for his Gospel ministrie and Gospel-ordinances Methinks I hear the Nobleman say I have a great estate to lose pray have me excused I heare the rich Citizen say I shall be utterly undone in my trading pray have me excused I heare the voluptuous Epicure say I have married a wife pray have me excused Take it for a certain rule If the seeking of these outward things puts thee upon excuses thou seekest them sinfully For if you look into the text forementioned you will finde that the excuses there made were 1. Lying and false they say they cannot come whereas the truth was they would not come non posse pretenditur nolle in c●usâ est 2. Poore and frivolous What is a Farm in comparison of Heaven marrying a Wife in comparison of being married to Jesus Christ 3. Vain and unprofitable For notwithstanding the excuses they made it is said verse 24. That none of these men which were bidden shall tast of my supper 4. Unreasonable and unconscionable For they made those things laqueos Diaboli snares and impediments to hinder them from Christ which would have been vincula obedientiae motives and incouragements to bring them to Christ 5. Lastly If when thine owne things and the things of Christ come in competition and thou must either part with the one or the other if thou choosest as Spyra did and as the young man in the Gospel did rather to part with Christ and his Gospel than with thy profit and preferment this is a sure note that thou seekest thine own things before and more than the things of Christ I read of Tiberius Emperour of Rome that he sent to the Senate to receive Christ into the number of their Gods but they refused to doe it upon this account because if they received him they must reject all their other Gods and therefore chose rather to renounce Jesus Christ than to receive him and part with the rest of their feigned Deities If thou renouncest and rejectest the Lord Christ and his Truths rather than thou wilt lose thy creature-enjoyments thou art a sinful self-seeker of the highest forme But now on the contrary If thou pursuest after the things of Christ in the first and chiefe place If thou mournest more for Church desolations than personall miseries If the more wealth thou hast the more couragious thou art for God and art glad that thou hast an Estate to lose for Christs cause If the seeking of thine owne things doe not put thee upon lying vaine