The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at…

Nemo sese tuto periculis offerre tam crebro potest. Quem saepe transit casus, aliquando invenit. Seneca.

Temptation puts you on a combat with the powers of earth, and flesh and Hell! And is toil and danger your delight? Nunquam periculum sine periculo vincitur] saith Seneca: Danger is never overcome without danger; Its necessary valour to charge through all, which you are in: But its temerarious foolhardiness to seek for danger, and invite such enemies when we are so weak: Saith Augustin; Nemo sibi proponat & dicat, habere volo quod vincam: hoc est, dicere, vivere desidero & volo sub ruina.] Goliath's [give me man to fight with,] is a prognostic of no good success. Rather foresee all your dangers to avoid them. Understand where each temptation lieth, that you may go another way, if possible. Castitas periclitatur in deliciis; humilitas in divitiis; pietas in negotiis; veritas in multiloqivo; charitas in hoc mundo.] saith Bern. [Chastity is endangered in delights: ⟨p. 28⟩humility in riches; piety in businesses; truth in too much talk; and charity in this world.] Alas did we but think what temptations did with a Noah, a Lot, a David, a Solomon, a Peter; we would be afraid of the enemy & weapon that such worthies have been so wounded by, and of the quicksands where they have so dangerously fallen. When Satan durst assault the Lord himself; What hope will he have of such as we? When we consider the millions that are blinded, and hardened and damned by temptations, are we in our wits if we will cast our selves into them? [Praeceps est, qui transire contendit, ubi conspexerit alios cecidisse: Et vehementer infraenis est, cui non incutitur timor alio pereunte. Aug.

Temptation puts you on a combate with the powers of earth, and flesh and Hell! And is toyl and danger your delight? Nunquam periculum sine periculo vincitur] saith Seneca: Danger is never overcome without danger; Its necessary valour to charge through all, which you are in: But its temerarious foolhardiness to seek for danger, and invite such enemies when we are so weak: Saith Augustin; Nemo sibi proponat & dicat, habere volo quod vincam: hoc est, dicere, vivere desidero & volo sub ruina.] Goliah's [give me man to fight with,] is a prognostick of no good success. Rather foresee all your dangers to avoid them. Understand where each temptation lieth, that you may go another way, if possible. Castitas periclitatur in deliciis; humilitas in divitiis; pietas in negotiis; veritas in multiloqiuo; charitas in hoc mundo.] saith Bern. [Chastity is endangered in delights: