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

6. The same must be said of all common Gifts, of utterance in conference or prayer, and of quickness of understanding and such like.

7. Lastly, the same must be said also of all that rectitude of life, and those degrees of obedience that are above mere sincerity: in which one true Christian doth exceed another; and in which we should all desire to abound; but must not judge our selves to be unsanctified merely because we are imperfect; or to be unjustified sinners, merely because we are sinners.

7. Lastly, the same must be said also of all that rectitude of life, and those degrees of obedience that are above meer sincerity: in which one true Christian doth exceed another; and in which we should all desire to abound; but must not judge our selves to be unsanctified meerly because we are imperfect; or to be unjustified sinners, meerly because we are sinners.

In our judging of our selves by our Lives and Practices two extremes must be carefully avoided: On the left hand that of the Profane, and of the Antinomians; The former cannot distinguish between sinners and sinners, sanctified and unsanctified, Justified and unjustified sinners; and when they have once conceited that they are in the favour of God, whatever they ⟨p. 347⟩do, they say, we are but sinners, and so are the best. The latter teach men, that when once they are justified, they are not for any sins to doubt again of their Justified state, lest they should seem to make God changeable.

In our judging of our selves by our Lives and Practices two extreams must be carefully avoided: On the left hand that of the Prophane, and of the Antinomians; The former cannot distinguish between sinners and sinners, sanctified and unsanctified, Justified and unjustified sinners; and when they have once conceited that they are in the favour of God, whatever they