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

We have sinned against Heaven and before thee, and are […] more worthy to be called thy children! O how sin hath captivated our understandings, and conquered our very sense, and made us live like men that were dead as to the Love and service of God, and the work of our salvation, which we were created and redeemed for! O Lord have mercy upon these blinded senseless miserable souls! Have mercy upon these despisers and abusers of thy mercy! ⟨p. 211⟩O save us or we perish! Save us from our sins, from Satan, from thy curse and wrath! Save, us or we are undone and lost for ever! Save us from the unquenchable fire, from the worm that never dieth! from the bottomless pit, the outer darkness, the horrid gulf of endless misery! O let the bowels of thy compassion yearn over us; O save us for thy Mercy sake; Shut not out the cries of miserable sinners. Regenerate, renew and sanctify our hearts; O make us new creatures! O plant thine Image on our souls, and incline them towards thee, that they may be wholly thine; O make us such as thou commandest us to be; Away with our sins, and sinful pleasures, and sinful company! We have had too much, too much of them already! Let us now be thine, associated with them that Love and fear thee; employed in the works of Holiness and obedience all our days! Lord, we are willing to let go our sins, and to be thy servants: or if we be not make us willing.]

We have sinned against Heaven and before thee, and are 〈…〉 more worthy to be called thy children! O how sin hath captivated our understandings, and conquered our very sense, and made us live like men that were dead as to the Love and service of God, and the work of our salvation, which we were created and redemned for! O Lord have mercy upon these blinded senseless miserable souls! Have mercy upon these despisers and abusers of thy mercy! ⟨p. 211⟩O save us or we perish! Save us from our sins, from Satan, from thy curse and wrath! Save, us or we are undone and lost for ever! Save us from the unquenchable fire, from the worm that never dieth! from the bottomless pit, the outer darkness, the horrid gulf of endless misery! O let the bowels of thy compassion yearn over us; O save us for thy Mercy sake; Shut not out the cries of miserable sinners. Regenerate, renew and sanctifie our hearts; O make us new creatures! O plant thine Image on our souls, and incline them towards thee, that they may be wholly thine; O make us such as thou commandest us to be; Away with our sins, and sinfull pleasures, and sinfull company! We have had too much, too much of them already! Let us now be thine, associated with them that Love and fear thee; imployed in the works of Holiness and obedience all our dayes! Lord, we are willing to let go our sins, and to be thy servants: or if we be not make us willing.]