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

This also maketh us so troubled with our auditors, that when they would learn the truth that should convert and save them, are carping and quarrelling with us, and ⟨p. 146⟩hear us as the Pharisees and Herodians heard Christ, to catch him in his words, Mark. 12.13. As if a dying man in a consumption, imagining that he is well▪ should go to the Physician to make a jest of him, or seek to ruin him for telling him that he is sick. And how frowardly do they reject the wisest counsel, and cast the medicine with unthankful indignation into the face of the Physician? And they must tell us themselves what medicine must be given them, what doctrine, and what administrations they must have. But self-acquaintance would teach them to understand that of Augustine [Novit medicus quid salutiferum, quidve contrarium petat aegrotus. Aegroti estis, nolite ergo dictare quae vobis medicamnia velit opponere.]

This also maketh us so troubled with our auditors, that when they would learn the truth that should convert and save them, are carping and quarrelling with us, and ⟨p. 146⟩hear us as the Pharisees and Herodians heard Christ, to catch him in his words, Mark. 12.13. As if a dying man in a consumption, imagining that he is well▪ should go to the Physicion to make a jeast of him, or seek to ruine him for telling him that he is sick. And how frowardly do they reject the wisest counsel, and cast the medicine with unthankfull indignation into the face of the Physicion? And they must tell us themselves what medicine must be given them, what doctrine, and what administrations they must have. But self-acquaintance would teach them to understand that of Augustine [Novit medicus quid salutiferum, quidve contrarium petat aegrotus. Aegroti estis, nolite ergo dictare quae vobis medicamnia velit opponere.]