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

4. Freedom from too strong affections about the creatures, and from disturbing passions.

5. Lively Affections and feeling operations of the soul towards God, in holy duty: and tender melting of the heart for sin: which are very desirable, but depend so much on the temperature of the body, and outward accidents, and are but the vigour and •ot the Life and being of the new creature, that we must not judge of our sincerity by them. Some Christians scarce know what any such lively feelings are: and some have them very seldom, and I think, no one, constantly: and therefore if our Peace, or Judgement of our selves, be laid on these, we shall be still wavering and unsettled, and tossed up and down as the waves of the sea; Sometimes seeming to be almost in Heaven, and presently near the gates of Hell: When ⟨p. 346⟩our state doth not change at all as these feelings and Affectionate motions of the soul do; but we are still in our safe Relation to God, while our first Essential graces do continue; though our failings, dullness, weaknesses and wants, must be matter of moderate filial humiliation to us.

5. Lively Affections and feeling operations of the soul towards God, in holy duty: and tender meltingt of the heart for sin: which are very desireable, but depend so much on the temperature of the body, and outward accidents, and are but the vigor and •ot the Life and being of the new creature, that we must not judge of our sincerity by them. Some Christians scarce know what any such lively feelings are: and some have them very seldom, and I think, no one, constantly: and therefore if our Peace, or Judgement of our selves, be laid on these, we shall be still wavering and unsetled, and tost up and down as the waves of the sea; Sometimes seeming to be almost in Heaven, and presently near the gates of Hell: When ⟨p. 346⟩