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

Blame not God to use them as Enemies and Rebels, that will change him for such earthen Gods as you. We have One God, and but One, and he must be obeyed, whether you like or dislike it: There is one Law giver that is able to save and to destroy, Jam. 4.12. and he must be pleased, whether it please your carnal minds or not: If your wisdom now will take the chair, and judge the preaching of the Gospel to be foolishness, or the searching application of it to be too much harshness and severity, I am sure you shall come down ere long, and hear his sentence that will convince you, that the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God, and the foolishness of God (as Blasphemy dare call it) is wiser then men, 1 Cor. 3.19. & 1.25. And God will be the final Judge, and his ⟨p. 246⟩word shall stand when you have done your worst. The worst that the Serpent can do, is but to hiss a while and put forth the sting, and bruise our heel: but Gods day will be the bruising of his head, and Satan shall be bruised under feet, Rom. 16.20.

Blame not God to use them as Enemies and Rebels, that will change him for such earthen Gods as you. We have One God, and but One, and he must be obeyed, whether you like or dislike it: There is one Law giver that is able to save and to destroy, Jam. 4.12. and he must be pleased, whether it please your carnal minds or not: If your wisdom now will take the chair, and judge the preaching of the Gospel to be foolishness, or the searching application of it to be too much harshness and severity, I am sure you shall come down ere long, and hear his sentence that will convince you, that the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God, and the foolishness of God (as Blasphemy dare call it) is wiser then men, 1 Cor. 3.19. & 1.25. And God will be the final Judge, and his