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

where no words are Heart-deep, but those that are spoken Against Christs cause and interest, or for their own; where a vile person is honoured, and those contemned that fear the Lord: Bless you from the place where truth is intolerable, and untruth cloaked with its name: where holiness is looked at as an Owl or enemy, and yet hypocrisy must steal its honour from it: where he is a Saint that is less wicked than infamous transgressors; and where Dives life is blameless temperance; and where Pride, Idleness, Fullness of bread, and filthy fornication and lasciviousness, are ⟨image 13⟩the infirmities of Pious and excellent persons: where great sins are small ones, and small ones are none; and where the greatest must have no reproof, and the Physician is taken for the greatest enemy: where chaff is valued at the price of wheat, and yet the famine is of choice: where persons and things are measured by Interest; and duty to God derided as fully, when ever it crosseth the wisdom of the world, and hated as some hurtful thing when it crosseth fleshly men in their desires: And where Dives Brethren are unwarned; and none are more secure and frolic, than those that to morrow may be in Hell; and as at the Gladiators sports, none complain less than those that speed worst, quia caesi silent, spectators vociferantur. Old Travellers are usually most addicted to end their days in solitude; Learn to contemn the world at cheaper rates than they; Neither hope, nor wish to live an Alexander, and die a Socrates; A Crowd or concourse, though of the greatest, where is the greatest tumult of affairs, and confluence of temptations, is not the safest place to die in: and I have most mind to live where I would die. Where men are Barbari moribus, etsi non natione; Christians in Name, and infidels in Conversation: the sweetness of their Christian names ⟨image 13⟩will not preserve them or you from the danger of their unchristian lives: It was not the whole of Lots deliverance to be saved from the flames of Sodom, but it was much of it to be freed from their malicious rage, and filthy grievous conversations: The best medicine against the Plague, is to keep far enough from the place that hath it. The Proverb saith, He shall have fleas that will lye with the dogs. Desire not that condition, where all seem friends, but none are friends indeed;

where no words are Heart-deep, but those that are spoken Against Christs cause and interest, or for their own; where a vile person is honoured, and those contemned that fear the Lord: Bless you from the place where truth is intollerable, and untruth cloaked with its name: where holiness is lookt at as an Owle or enemie, and yet hypocrisie must steal its honour from it: where he is a Saint that is less wicked than infamous transgressors; and where Dives life is blameless temperance; and where Pride, Idleness, Fulness of bread, and filthy fornication and lasciviousness, are