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

2. And if we could know our selves, an• know no more, it were but to know Nothing, and lose that knowledge. For this […] but the entrance into wisdom, and th• means and way to higher knowledge. Th•• learning of our Alphabet or Primer is lost▪ if we learn no further; you are therefore […] study and know your selves that you may advance to the knowledge of Christ and his grace, and be acquainted with the Remedy of all that you find amiss at home: and that by Christ you may be brought unto the Father, and know God as your happiness and rest; you are not your own ultimate ends, and therefore must go further in your studies then yourselves.

2. And if we could know our selves, an• know no more, it were but to know Nothing, and lose that knowledge. For this 〈…〉 but the enterance into wisdome, and th• meanes and way to higher knowledge. Th•• learning of our Alphabet or Primer is lost▪ if we learn no further; you are therefore 〈…〉 study and know your selves that you may advance to the knowledge of Christ and his grace, and be acquainted wich the Remedie of all that you find amiss at home: and that by Christ you may be brought unto the Father, and know God as your happiness and rest; you are not your own ultimate ends, and therefore must goe further in your studyes then yourselves.

3. We shall never attain to Rectitude or solid comfort and content, unless our studies go further then ourselves. For we are not the Rule to our selves, but crooked lines! and cannot know what is right and wrong, if we study not the Rule as well as ⟨p. 157⟩