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

6. Another instance that I may give you, […], in the unexpected appearances of Pride […] those that yet are truly humble. Humility speaks in their confessions, aggravating their sin, and searching heart and life •r matter of self-accusation: They call themselves Less then the least of all Gods mercies: They are ready with the woman of Canaan, Mat. 15.27. even to own the name •f dogs, and to confess themselves unworthy •f the children's crumbs, and unworthy to •read upon the common earth, or to •reath in the air, or to live upon the patience and provisions of God: They will •pend whole hours, and days of humiliation, in confessing their sin, and bewailing their weaknesses and want of grace, •nd lamenting their desert of misery: They •re oft cast down so much too low, that they dare not own the title of Gods children, nor any of his special grace, but take themselves for mere unsanctified hardened sinners: and all that can be said will not convince them that they have any saving interest in Christ: nor hinder them from pouring out unjust accusations against themselves. And all this is done by them in the uprightness of their hearts, and not dissemblingly. And yet would you think, ⟨p. 320⟩that with all this Humility, there should be any pride? and that the same person should lift up themselves and resist the• helps to further Humiliation? Do the• think in their dejections, that it is in the• hearts so much to exalt themselves? I confess many of them are sensible of the Pride, even to the increase of their humility: and as it is said of Hezekiah, do humb•• themselves for the pride of their hearts, […] that Gods wrath doth not come upon them