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

4. When we are admired, applauded, or excessively esteemed and loved, how apt are we to be too much pleased with it? ⟨p. 322⟩which showeth a proud desire to be some body in the world: and that there is much of this venom at the bottom in our hearts even when we lay our selves in the dust and walk in sackcloth, and pass the heavieest judgement on our selves.

4. When we are admired, appladed, or excessively esteemed and loved, how apt are we to be too much pleased with it? ⟨p. 322⟩which sheweth a proud desire to be some body in the world: and that there is much of this venom at the bottom in our hearts even when we lay our selves in the dust and walk in sackcloth, and pass the heavi•est judgement on our selves.

7. Another instance of our unacquaintedness with our hearts, and the latent undiscerned corruption of them, is, our little discerning or bewailing those secret master sins, which lie at the root of all the rest, and are the life of the old man, and the cause of all the miscarriages of our lives▪ As 1. Unbelief of the truth of the holy Scriptures, of the immortality of the soul, and the life of joy or misery hereafter, and the other Articles of the Christian faith: What abundance of Christians are sensible of their unbelief as to the applying acts of faith that tend to their assurance of their own salvation, that are little sensible of any defect in the Assenting act, or of any secret root of unbelief about the truth of the Gospel revelations: And yet, alas, it is this that weakeneth all our graces: It is this that feedeth all our woe! O happy men were we free from this! What prayers should we put up! What lives should we lead! how ⟨p. 323⟩