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

And its Useless that is not for his Glory and his will. If God have nothing to do with me, I have nothing to do with my self, nor the world hath nothing to do with me.

And its Ʋseless that is not for his Glory and his will. If God have nothing to do with me, I have nothing to do with my self, nor the world hath nothing to do with me.

Let dark and dreaming, doting sinners declare their shame, and speak evil of what they never knew, and neglect the Good they never saw; let them that know not themselves or God, refuse to give up themselves to God, and think a life of sensuality more suitable to them. But Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance on me. Psal. 4. and let me no longer be a man, nor have Reason or any of thy talents in my trust, then I shall be Thine, and live to Thee. I say as Bernard [Dig••s plane est morte, qui tibi Christe rec usat vivere; & qui tibi non sapit, desipit; & qui curat esse nisi propter te, pro ni hilo […] & nihil est. Propter teipsum Deus fecisti ••ia; & qui esse vult sibi, & non tibi, •••sse incipit inter omnia.] [Worthy is that […], O Christ, to die, that refuseth to live […] thee: and he that is not wise to thee, is […] a fool; and he that careth to Be unless ⟨p. 114⟩it be for thee, is good for nothing, and is nothing. For thy self O God hast thou made all things; and he that would Be to himself and not thee, among all things begineth to be Nothing.]

Let dark and dreaming, doating sinners declare their shame, and speak evill of what they never knew, and neglect the Good they never saw; let them that know not themselves or God, refuse to give up themselves to God, and think a life of sensuality more suitable to them. But Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance on me.