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

And now, Sirs, me thinks, your consciences should begin to stir, and your thoughts should be turned inwards upon your selves, and you should seriously consider, what measure of acquaintance you have at home, and what you have done to procure and maintain such acquaintance. Hath Conscience no Use to make of this Doctrine, and of all that hath been said upon it? Doth it not reprove you for your self neglect, and your wanderings of mind, and your alien, unnecessary fruitless Cogitations? Had you been but as strange to your familiar friend, and as regardless of his acquaintance, correspondency and affairs, as too many of you have been of your Own, you may imagine how he would have taken it, and what Use he would have made of it: some such Use it beseemeth you to make of estrangedness ⟨p. 92⟩to your selves. Would not he ask, [What is the matter that my friend so seldom looketh at me? and no more mindeth me or my affairs? What have I done to him? How have I deserved this? What more beloved company or employment hath he got?] You have this and much more to plead against your great Neglect and Ignorance of your selves.

ANd now, Sirs, me thinks, your consciences should begin to stir, and your thoughts should be turned inwards upon your selves, and you should seriously consider, what measure of acquaintance you have at home, and what you have done to procure and maintain such acquaintance. Hath Conscience no Ʋse to make of this Doctrine, and of all that hath been said upon it? Doth it not reprove you for your self neglect, and your wanderings of mind, and your aliene, unnecessary fruitless Cogitations? Had you been but as strange to your familiar friend, and as regardless of his acquaintance, correspondencie and affaires, as too many of you have been of your Own, you may imagine how he would have taken it, and what Use he would have made of it: some such Use it beseemeth you to make of estrangedness ⟨p. 92⟩