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

1. All those that have not unfeignedly devoted themselves to God, as being not their own but his. His by the title of Creation, Psal. 100.3. [Know ye that the Lord he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we our selves, we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.] And His by the title of Redemption: for we are bought with a price, 1 Cor. 7.23. And he that unfeignedly taketh God for his Owner, and Absolute Lord, will heartily give up himself unto him; as Paul saith of the Corinthians, 2 Cor. 8.5. They first gave up their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.]

And he that entirely giveth up himself to God, doth with himself surrender all that he hath in desire and resolution. As ⟨p. 267⟩Christ with himself doth give us all things, Rom. 8.32. and addeth other things to them that seek first his Kingdom and its Righteousness, Matth. 6.33. so Christians with themselves do give up all they have to Christ.

And he that giveth up himself to God, will live to God: And he that taketh not himself to be his Own, will take nothing for his Own: but will study the interest of his Lord, and think he is best disposed of when he honoureth him most, and serveth him best,