Charles Buck Theological Dictionary: SELF-KNOWLEDGE

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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary: SELF-KNOWLEDGE

Subjects in this Topic:

SEEKERS
SELEUCIANS
SELF-DECEPTION
SELF-DEDICATION
SELF-DEFENCE
SELF-DENIAL
SELF-EXAMINATION
SELF-EXISTENCE OF GOD
SELF-GOVERNMENT
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
SELF-LOVE
SELF-SEEKING
SELFISHNESS
SEMBIANI
SEMI-ARIANS
SEMI-PELAGIANS
SENSATION
SENSE A faculty of the soul, whereby it perceives external objects by means of impressions made on the organs of the body. Moral Sense is said to be an apprehension of that beauty or deformity which arises in the mind by a kind of natural instinct, previously to any reasoning upon the remoter consequences of actions. Whether this really exists or not, is disputed. On the affirmative side it is said, that,
SEPTUAGESIMA

The knowledge of one's own character, abilities, duties, principles, prejudices, tempers, secret springs of action, thoughts, memory, taste, views in life, virtues, and vices. This knowledge is commanded in the Scriptures, Psa_4:4. 2Co_13:5. and is of the greatest utility, as it is the spring of self-possession, leads to humility, steadfastness, charity, moderation, self-denial, and promotes our usefulness in the world. To obtain it, there should be watchfulness, frequent and close attention to the operations of our own minds, regard had to the opinions of others, conversation, reading the Scriptures, and dependence on divine grace.

See Mason on Self-knowledge; Baxter's Self-Acquaintance; Locke on the Underst.; Watts's Improvement of the Mind.