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

But if Exaltation be added to Delivera••• how often doth it make the Reason dru•• so that the man seems not the same! If […] see them drowned in Ambition or world cares or pleasures; if you see how bol• they can play with the sin that once th•• would have trembled at; how powerf••• fleshly arguments are with them; […] strangely they now look at plainhea•••• zealous, heavenly Christians, whose […] they once desired to be in; and how […] they are ashamed or afraid, to appear […] for an opposed cause of Christ, or openly to justify the persons that he justifieth▪ As if they had forgot that a day is comi•• when they will be loth that Christ shou•• be ashamed of them, and refuse to Justif•• ⟨p. 303⟩them, when the grand Accuser is pleading for their condemnation. I say, if you see these men in their prosperity, would you not ask with wonder, Are these the men that lately in distress, did seem so humble, penitent and sincere? that seemed so much above these vanities, that could speak with so much contempt of all the glory and pleasures of the world: and with so much pity of those vertiginous men, that they now admire.

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