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

And I beseech you let it not suffice you that you know your states, and have found your selves in the Love of God, in the faith of Christ, and possessed by his Spirit. Though this be a mercy worth many worlds, yet this is not all concerning your selves that you have to know. If yet you say that you have no sin, you deceive your selves. If yet you think you are past all danger, your danger is the greater for this mistake. As much as you have been humbled for sin: as much as you have loathed it, and your selves for it: as oft as you have confessed it, lamented it, and complained and prayed against it, yet it is alive: Though it be mortified, it is alive. It is said to be mortified ⟨p. 276⟩as to the prevalency and reign, but the relicts of it yet survive: were it perfectly dead, you were perfectly delivered from it, and might say you have no sin: but it is not yet so happy with you. It will find work for the blood and spirit of Christ, and for your selves, as long as you are in the flesh. And alas, too many that know themselves to be upright in the main, are yet so much unacquainted with their hearts and lives as to the degrees of grace and sin, as that it much disadvantageth them in their Christian progress. Go along with me in the careful observation of these following Evils, that may befall even the regenerate by the remnants of self-ignorance.

And I beseech you let it not suffice you that you know your states, and have found your selves in the Love of God, in the faith of Christ, and possessed by his Spirit. Though this be a mercy worth many worlds, yet this is not all concerning your selves that you have to know. If yet you say that you have no sin, you deceive your selves. If yet you think you are past all danger, your danger is the greater for this mistake. As much as you have been humbled for sin: as much as you have loathed it, and your selves for it: as oft as you have confessed it, lamented it, and complained and prayed against it, yet it is alive: Though it be mortified, it is alive. It is said to be mortified ⟨p. 276⟩as to the prevalency and reign, but the relicts of it yet survive: were it perfectly dead, you were perfectly delivered from it, and might say you have no sin: but it is not yet so happy with you. It will find work for the blood and spirit of Christ, and for your selves, as long as you are in the flesh. And alas, too many that know themselves to be upright in the main, are yet so much unacquainted with their hearts and lives as to the degrees of grace and sin, as that it much disadvantageth them in their Christian progress. Go along with me in the carefull observation of these following Evils, that may befall even the regenerate by the remnants of self-ignorance.