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

What is the Repentance of the living, and the Desperation of the damned, but a declaration that the persons Repenting and Despairing, were unacquainted with themselves before? Indeed the erroneous Despair of men while Grace is offered them, comes ⟨p. 80⟩from Ignorance of the Mercy of God, and willingness of Christ to receive all that ar• willing to return: But yet the sense of sin and misery, that occasioneth this erroneous Despair, doth show that men were before erroneous in their presumption and self-esteem. Saith Bernard in Cant. [Utraq•• Cognitio, Dei scilicet & tui, tibi necessari• est ad salutem, quia sicut ex notitia tui venit in te timor Dei, atque ex Dei notitia itidem amor; sic è contra, de ignorantia […] superbia, ac de Dei ignorantia venit desperatio] that is, [Both the knowledge of God and of thy self is necessary to salvation▪ because as from the Knowledge of thy self, the Fear of God cometh into thee, and Love from the knowledge of God: so on the contrary from the Ignorance of thy self cometh pride, and from the Ignorance of God comes Desperation.] Quid est sapientia (inquit Seneca?) Semper idem Velle, & idem Nolle•• At non potest idem semper placere nisi rectum] Wisdom appeareth in always Willing▪ and always Nilling the same thing: but its only Right and Good that can always please.

What is the Repentance of the living, and the Desperation of the damned, but a declaration that the persons Repenting and Despairing, were unacquainted with themselves before? Indeed the erroneous Despair of men while Grace is offered them, comes ⟨p. 80⟩from Ignorance of the Mercy of God, and willingness of Christ to receive all that ar• willing to return: But yet the sense of sin and misery, that occasioneth this erroneous Despair, doth shew that men were before erroneous in their presumption and self-esteem. Saith Bernard in Cant. [Ʋtraq•• Cognitio, Dei scilicet & tui, tibi necessari est ad salutem, quia sicut ex notitia tui venit in te timor Dei, atque ex Dei notitia itidem amor; sic è contra, de ignorantia superbia, ac de Dei ignorantia venit desperatio] that is, [Both the knowledge of God and of thy self is necessary to salvation because as from the Knowledge of thy self, the Fear of God cometh into thee, and Love from the knowledge of God: so on the contrary from the Ignorance of thy self cometh pride, and from the Ignorance of God comes Desperation.] Quid est sapientia (inquit Seneca?) Semper idem Velle, & idem Nolle At non potest idem semper placere nisi rectum] Wisdom appeareth in alwayes Willing and alwayes Nilling the same thing: but its only Right and Good that can alwayes please.