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

When we feel the […] resolutions of our hearts to cast off […] sin, to walk more thankfully and fruitfully and accurately with God then […] have done, we can hardly believe that ••er those hearts should lose so much of those ••fections and resolutions as in a little time […] find they do. Alas how quickly and […] sensibly do we slide into our former insensibility, and into our dull and heavy fruitless course, when once the pain and ••ar is gone! And then when the next ••fliction comes, we are confounded and co••ered with shame, and have not the confidence with God in our prayers and cries •s we had before, because we are conscious of our covenant-breaking and backsliding: and at last we grow so distrustful ⟨p. 302⟩of our hearts, that we know not […] to believe any promises which […] make, nor how to be confident […] any Evidence of grace that is in the• and so we lose the comfort of our sincer••• and are cast into a state of too much h•••viness and unthankful denial of our de•••est mercies: And all this comes from […] foul unexpected relapses and coolings […] declinings of the heart that comes not […] to the promises we made to God in […] distress.

When we feel the 〈…〉 resolutions of our hearts to cast off 〈…〉 sin, to walk more thankfully and ••uitfully and accurately with God then 〈…〉 have done, we can hardly believe that ••er those hearts shoul lose so much of those ••fections and resolutions as in a little time 〈…〉 find they do. Alas how quickly and 〈…〉 sensibly do we slide into our former innsibility, and into our dull and heavy uitless course, when once the pain and ar is gone! And then when the next fliction comes, we are confounded and coered with shame, and have not the confience with God in our prayers and cryes s we had before, because we are conscious of our covenant-breaking and backliding: and at last we grow so distrustfull