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A27053 A treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at Kederminster Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1675 (1675) Wing B1431; ESTC R218685 325,551 530

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How shall he cloath you with his righteousness while self keeps on your own defiled rotten rags Down therefore with self that Christ may be exalted Away with your own conceited righteousness that he may be your righteousness down with your Selfish foolish wisdom that the supposed foolishness of God may be your wisdom Level this mountain which Satan hath built up in enmity against the holy mountain of the Lord. 5. Moreover Self must be denyed as it is the great resister of the Holy Ghost The sanctifying spirit hath no greater enemy at least except the Devil himself One half of the work of sanctification is to destroy this Carnal self And therefore no wonder if hence it find the chief resistance Not an holy motion can be made to the soul but self is against it No work hath the spirit to do upon us but self is ready to gainsay it and contradict it and work against it when ever therefore this mortal Principle is contending against the spirit of God dishonouring holiness disswading you from duty perswading you to sin down with it and deny it as you would be true to the spirit and your selves 6. Moreover self must be denyed as it traiterously complyeth with the enemies of Christ and your own salvation when it takes part with Satan and pleads for sin and saith as wicked men say and entreth a conspiracy with all that would undo you and all this under pretence of your own good When ever it speaks for sin you may be sure it speaks against God and you and therefore it 's reason you should deny it Self also must be denied when it riseth up against the supposed tediousness or difficulty of duty when it grudgeth at an holy life saith What a stir is here what a weary life is this what do I get by serving God Now self is playing the traitor against God and you and therefore deny it 7. Moreover when self doth rise up against sufferings and make you believe that they are intolerable and that it is unreasonable for a man to forsake all that he hath for fear of a sinful word or deed when we sin every day when we have done our best it 's time now to stop the mouth of self for it plays the Devils game against God and you and would perswade you to prefer a short uncertain miserable life before eternal life and to give up your self to wilful sin because God beareth with the sins of mens infirmity It 's reason that you should deny so unreasonable an enemy to God you 8. Moreover self must be denyed when it stands up against the Ordinances of God When it pleadeth against the arguments of the word and findeth fault with the Law that it should obey and quarrelleth with prayer and all holy duties and would make all instituted means uneffectual for your saving good it 's time now that you deny it 9. When self doth rise up against the Officers of Christ and would make you believe your teachers fools and you are wise that they are beside the truth and you are in the right or that they speak against you out of malice or singularity or some such distemper and so would deprive you of the saving benefit of their Doctrine and Office it 's time now to deny self if you know but what belongeth to your peace And though I grant that you must not follow a Teacher into a certain sin and error yet when it is not God but self that riseth up against your Teachers and possesseth you with a spirit of bitterness disobedience contradiction and malignity this self must be denyed 10. Lastly as self is against the good of our neighbour or humane Societies it must be denyed For we must love our Neighbour as our selves that is both self and neighbour must be loved in a due subordination to God as means to his Glory and in this notion of a means the Love should be equal though there is also a Natural Love in order to self-preservation put into us by the Creator which our Love to every Neighbour is not to equal in degree yet our love to Societies should exceed it and our Love to a Neighbour should come so near it that we should diligere proximum proxima delictione love him as a second self and so study his welfare as to promote it to our power and not to covet or draw from him for our selves nor do him any wrong This is the sense of the tenth Commandement and sum of the second Table CHAP. XIII 1. Selfish Dispositions must be denyed and 1. Self-love HAving seen in what respects and upon what accounts it is that self must be denyed I am next to tell you the particulars of that selfish interest that must be denyed and the parts that are contained in this needful work And here you must remember what saving faith is that seeing how self opposeth it you may know wherein it must be denyed Saving faith is such a Belief in Christ for Reconciliation with God and the everlasting fruition of him in Glory as makes us for sake all the things of this world and give up our selves to the conduct of the word and spirit for the obtaining of it When a man can strip himself of all the pleasures and profits and honours of this world first in his estimation and love and resolution and then in the actual forsaking of them at the Call of God because of the firm belief and hope that he hath of the fruition of God in Glory as purchased and promised by Jesus Christ this is a Christian a Disciple of Christ a true believer and none but this And as I have told you as God in Unity and Father Son and Holy Ghost in Trinity is the Object of our saving faith so Carnal Self in unity and Pleasure Profits and Honours in trinity must be renounced and denied by all true Christians as being that which we turn from when we turn to God So that in brief to deny your selves doth generally consist in denying all your own Dispositions and Interests whatsoever as they are against God the Father Son or Spirit or stand not in a due subserviency to him And this Interest which you must deny consisteth in your Pleasures Profits and Honour Of these therefore I shall speak distinctly though but briefly I. You must begin at the denial and mortification of your Corrupt and selfish Disposition or else you can never well deny your selfish interest It is not enough to keep under this selfishness by denying it somewhat that it would have but the selfish Inclination or Nature it self must be so far mortified and destroyed that it shall not reign as formerly it did For this which we call selfishness is not your very Persons nor any spiritual or right natural desire of your owngood But it is the inordinate adhering of the soul to your selves by departing from God to whom you should adhere and so a carrying over Gods
let out that dangerous venomous wind that puffs you up And if you should have any Knowledge of the most precious truths as long as you are thus proud and self-conceited it will not be savoury and effectual on your hearts Humility feedeth and Pride starveth every Grace The Spirit of God will not dwell with the proud He will beat you out of your selves unless you drive him away from you Some seeming raptures and comforts the self-conceited have which are but the deluding flatteries of self and the encouragements that Satan giveth to his servants For Satan will needs be a comforter for a while as the Holy Ghost is to the Saints and his followers also have their joys But it is the humble soul that hath the solid comforts From the dust of Humiliation we have the clearest sight of Glory and consequently the sweetest tasts of it As high as the rain comes from it is the lowest valleys that receive it most and retain it Faith it self will not prosper in the proud and self-conceited To such the Gospel will be foolishness or an offence It is only the humble that savingly close with its mysteries Humility cherisheth the fear of God and makes us say How shall we do this evil or neglect this duty But Self-conceitedness and Pride is blind and bold and destroyeth in mens apprehensions the difference between things sacred and common the holy and the unclean It disposeth them to such an unreverent boldness with holy things as usually ends in a prophane contempt so that such can at last despise holy Ordinances which they should live upon Repentance and this Pride are deadly foes To be Penitent and Proud is to be Hot and Cold alive and dead Though Christ love not to find you in the dust of earthly-mindedness yet he loves to find you in the dust of humility The Publican that hanged down the head did ●it the way better to the sight of God than the self-conceited Pharisee The most self-denying humiliation is the nearest way to heaven and the most self-exalting Pride is the surest and nearest way to hell I had rather sit with Mary washing and wiping the feet of Christ than ask as the Mother of James and John to sit at Christ's right hand and left hand in his Kingdom Mary was in a manner thanked for the Love of her humility and they were in a manner denied the request that so little savoured of self-denial Our Lord doth not use to thank people for their service and yet he did that which was next to it to this humble self-denying penitent woman He doth not use to deny his own Disciples an heavenly request and yet he did that which was next to a denial when self brought him the petition He that hath taught us not to press to the highest room lest with shame we hear Sit lower doth hereby tell us what we must expect from himself And he that hath bid us sit down at the lower end that we may hear Friend sit up higher doth express his purpose for humble self-denying souls I had rather from the dust hear his Come up higher than from self-exaltation to hear Come down lower O you that are proud self-conceited wretches did you but know what good it doth an humble soul to feel Christ take him up from the dust you would soon fall down that you might tast their comforts in his lifting up O what a blessed feeling it is to feel ones self in the arms of Christ Our common compassion that makes us run to take up one that falls before us is a spark of that compassion in Christ who meddles with him that walks before us but a man that falls down in a swoon we are all ready to lay hands on O happy fall that makes us feel the arms of Christ Though the fall into sin be never the better that occasioneth it yet the fall into Humiliation is the better that prepareth for it He that in his agony had an Angel to minister to him will not leave the self-denying humble soul without his Angel or some way of relief that is sutable to the necessity Christ himself will not communicate himself to the proud and self-conceited He is wisdom but not to them that are wise in their own eyes already He is Righteousness but not to them that Justifie themselves He is Sanctification but not to those that never found their own uncleanness He is Redemption but to none but those that feel themselves condemned He hath the white raiment and the treasures of grace and glory but it 's only those that penitently feel that they are poor and miserable and blind and naked Truly Sirs though I have no mind to trouble the well-grounded peace or comfort of any of your Souls yet I would advise you if you have never so good thoughts of your selves suspect lest it should be the fruit of self-conceiteduess And if you should have never so much peace and joy look well whether it come from God or self-conceit And if it come not in against self it 's ten to one but it comes from self If your Peace and Comfort be not won from Christ in a way of self-denial and as the spoils of the flesh you have it not in the ordinary way of God Did you come to your Joy and Peace by humility and self-denial and patience and mortification and by becoming little Children and the servants of all and by learning of Christ to be meek and lowly If not take heed lest you nourish a changeling an Imp of Hell and a selfish brat instead of the fruit of the Spirit the peace and joy of the Holy Ghost If you feel no great matter at home to trouble you you are too Righteous to be Justified by Christ If you groan not under your ignorance and unbelief you are too wise to be Christ's Disciples If you mourn not under the load and pain of sin you are too well to be Christ's Patients If you are readier to justifie and excuse your selves than to condemn your selves and had rather hear your selves praised than reproved admonished or instructed and like Diotrephes love to have the preheminence you are too high for Christ to take any acquaintance with you and too full of self to have any room for his Love and Spirit and heavenly Consolations He that gave us the Parable of the importunate widdow Luke 18. 2 3. would have us understand that bare necessity is not enough to fit us for relief for then the worst of men should be the fittest but it must be Necessity so felt as to humble us and drive us to importunity with God The Prodigal was miserable when he was denied the husks but he never felt his Fathers embracements till he came to himself by denying himself and returning to his Father And this the self-conceited will not be perswaded to The first that must touch Christ after his Resurrection is not a King nor a Lord no nor a