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

Madam, what sweet and noble employment have you there, in comparison of that which worldlings are troubled with abroad! •here you may read the sentence of your ••stification, as foregoing and foreshowing […] public final sentence of your Judge: ••ere you can converse with God himself, […] in his vindictive Justice, but as he is ••ve: For the love that dwelleth so plentifully in you, doth prove that God dwel•••h in you, and you in him, 1 Joh. 4.7, […] 16. There you may converse with Christ •ur head, that dwelleth in you by faith, •hes. 3.17. and with the Holy Ghost who ••elleth in you, and hath communion with […], by the beams of his illuminating, san•••fying, Confirming and comforting grace: ⟨image 7⟩There, as in his Temple you are speaking o• his Glory, (1 Cor. 3.16, 17. & 6.19 with Psal. 29.9) and rejoicing in his holy praise, and remembering what he hath don• for your soul: There you can peruse th• Records of his Mercy, and think with gratitude and delight, how he did first illuminate you, and draw and engage your hear• unto himself: what advantage he got upon you, and what iniquity he prevented by th• mercies of your education, and how he secretly took acquaintance with you in your youth▪ How he delivered you from worldly fleshly snares; how he caused you to savour th things of the Spirit: how he planted you i a sound well ordered Church, where h quickened and conducted you by a lively faithful Ministry, and watered his gifts by their constant powerful preaching of his word where Discipline was for a defence, an where your heart was warmed with th communion of the Saints, and where you learned to worship God in spirit and in truth; and where you were taught so effectually by God to discern between the precious and th vile, and to love those that are born of God whom the world knoweth not, that no subtleties or calumnies of the Serpent can unteach it you, or ever be able to separate you from