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

And it makes me remember Bishop Halls Description of An Hypocrite [He turneth all gnats into Camels, and cares not to undo the world for a circumstance. Flesh on Friday is more abominable to him, then his neighbours bed: He abhors more not to uncover at the name of Jesus, then to swear by name of God, &c.] It seems, that Prelates were guilty of this in Bernards days, who saith, [Praelati nostri calicem linquunt, & Camelum deglutiunt: dumb majora permittentes, minora discutiunt. Optimi rerum aestimatores, qui magnum in minimis, & parvam aut nullam in maximis adhibent diligentiam.] i. e. [Our Prelates strain at a gnat, and swallow a Camel, while permitting greater matters, they discuss (or sift) the less: Excellent estimators of things indeed, that in the smallest matters employ great diligence; but in the greatest, little or none at all.] And the cause of all this partiality is, that Men are unacquainted with themselves. They love and cherish the same corruptions in themselves, which they should hate and reprehend in others. And ⟨p. 71⟩saith Hierom [Quomodo potest praeses Ecclesiae auferre malum de medio ejus, qui in delictum simile corruerit? aut qua libertate corripere peccantem potest, cum tacitus ipse sibi respondeat, eadem se admisisse quae corripit:] i. e. [How can a Prelate of the Church, reform the evil that is in it, that rusheth into the like offence? Or with what freedom, can he rebuke a sinner, when his conscience secretly tells him, that he hath himself committed the same faults which he reproveth?]

And it makes me remember Bishop Halls Description of An Hypocrite [He turneth all gnats into Camells, and cares not to undo the world for a circumstance. Flesh on Friday is more abominable to him, then his neighbours bed: He abhors more not to uncover at the name of Jesus, then to swear by name of God, &c.] It seems, that Prelats were guilty of this in Bernards dayes, who saith, [Praelati nostri calicem linquunt, & Camelum deglutiunt: dum majora permittentes, minora discutiunt. Optimi rerum aestimatores, qui magnum in minimis, & parvam aut nullam in maximis adhibent diligentiam.] i. e. [Our Prelats strain at a gnat, and swallow a Camel, while permitting greater matters, they discuss (or sift) the less: Excellent estimators of things indeed, that in the smallest matters imploy great diligence; but in the greatest, little or none at all.] And the cause of all this partiality is, that Men are unacquainted with themselves. They love and cherish the same corruptions in themselves, which they should hate and reprehend in others. And