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

They that say they are sinners, from a general brain-knowledge, will accordingly say Christ is their Saviour and their hope, with a superficial Belief, and will honour him with their lips with all the titles belonging to the Redeemer of the world: But they that feel that they are deadly sick of sin […] the very heart, and are lost for ever if he do not save them, will feel what the name of a Saviour signifieth, and will look to him as the Israelites to the brazen Serpent, and cast themselves at his feet, for the […] of grace, and will yield up themselves […] be saved by him, in his way. An uneffectual knowledge of your selves, may make you believe in a Redeemer, as all the City do of a ⟨p. 99⟩Learned able Physician, that will speak well of his skill, and resolve to use him when necessity constraineth them, but at present they find no such necessity. But an effectual sight and sense of your condition, will bring you to Christ, as a man in a Dropsy or Consumption comes to the Physician, that feels be must have help or die. Saith Bernard, [Filium Dei non reputat Jesum, qui ipsius non terretur comminationibus, &c.] You will not take the Son of God for a Saviour, if you be not affrighted by his threatenings] And if you perceive not that you are lost, you will not heartily thank him that came to seek and save you. [Non consolantur Christi lahcrymae cachinnantes•, non consolantur panni ejus ambulantes in stolis; non consolantur stabulum & praesepe amantes primas Cathedras in Synagogis.] saith Bernard [Christs tears do not comfort them that laugh: his rags do not comfort them that (love to) walk in robes: his stable and manger comfort not them that love the highest seats in the Synagogues.] Can you seek to Christ to take you up, till you find that you have fallen and hurt you? Will you seek to him to fetch you from the gates of hell, that find not that you are there?

They that say they are sinners, from a general brain-knowledge, will accordingly say Christ is their Saviour and their hope, with a superficial Belief, and will honour him with their lips with all the titles belonging to the Redeemer of the world: But they that feel that they are deadly sick of sin 〈…〉 the very heart, and are lost for ever if he do not save them, will feel what the name of a Saviour signifieth, and will look to him as the Israelites to the brazen Serpent, and cast themselves at his feet, for the 〈…〉 of grace, and will yield up themselves be saved by him, in his way. An uneffectual knowledge of your selves, may make you believe in a Redeemer, as all the City do of a