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And also, that while we are suffering the most acutely, we may be sure that others are suffering still more acutely; and if we would but sympathise with them more than with ourselves live out of our ownselves, and in the wide world around us we would soon be healed while striving to heal others.
Two enemies lie near your states, imagination and liberty; but the plain, practical, living, holy truth, that has convinced you, will preserve you, if you mind it in yourselves, and bring all thoughts, inclinations, and affections, to the test of it, to see if they are wrought in God, or of the enemy, or of your ownselves: so will a true taste, discerning, and judgment, be preserved to you, of what you should do and leave undone.
"Awh, well," said Joan, "I don't knaw what us should ha' done if there'd ha' bin no drink to give 'em: they'd ha' bin more than Eve and me could manage, I can tell 'ee. Nobody but our ownselves, mother, will ever knaw what us two maidens have had to go through." "You've often had my thoughts with 'ee, Joan," said Mrs.
That I accustom them to bear disappointments and control. That I suffer them not to be too much indulged in their infancy. Nor at school. Nor spoil them when they come home. For that children generally extend their perverseness from the nurse to the schoolmaster: from the schoolmaster to the parents: 14. And, in their next step, as a proper punishment for all, make their ownselves unhappy.
Men's spirits are too narrow for the mind of God, when their chief end, or their only design in their enjoying this or the other mercy, is for the sake of their ownselves only. It cannot be according to God, that such desires should be encouraged: "none of us liveth unto himself," why then should we desire life only for ourselves.
For though he was crucified in weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God displayed towards you. Examine yourselves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your ownselves: know ye not your ownselves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobate? But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate.
Is it not because you do not like to look your ownselves in the face, and see how foolishly you have been living, and how many bad habits you will have to give up, and what a thorough conversion and change you must make, if you are to be confirmed in earnest? Is not this why you do not wish to be confirmed? And what does that all come to?
Nor doth this sin go alone in the families where it is; no, those men are lovers of their ownselves; covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemous, that are disobedient to their parents. But behold how the apostle brands them; he saith, such have but 'a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, and bids the godly shut them out of their fellowship.
Jane Hastings was a selfish, self-absorbed person, ready to do almost any base thing to gain her ends, ready to hate to the uttermost any one who stood between her and her object. "I'm certainly not a lovely person not a lovable person," thought she, with that gentle tolerance wherewith we regard our ownselves, whether in the dress of pretense or in the undress of deformed humanness.
I MUST be right with God. Deceiving their ownselves, and saying to themselves, 'I am rich and increased with goods, I have need of nothing, and not knowing that they are wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked. Would God that such people, of whom there are too many, would take St.
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