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

Sermons also would be much sweeter to •ou, when you could confidently take •ome the consolatory part, and use our ministry as a help to your faith, and hope, and •oy; whereas your doubts and fears lest you are still unregenerate, will turn all that you •ear, or read, or meditate on, into food and fuel for themselves to work upon; and you will gather up all that tends to your disquietment, and say, It is your part; and cast away all that rendeth to your consolation, and say, it belongeth not to you: and the most comforting passages of the word will be turned into your discomfort: and the promises will seem to you as none, while you imagine that they are none of yours; And the loss of your peace and comfort will not be the worst: But this will increase ⟨p. 370⟩your backwardness to duty ▪ […] when your delight in the worship of God […] gone, your inclination to it will abate, an• it will seem a burden to you, and be as […] to the stomachs of the sick, that with th• carefullest preparation and much […] can hardly be brought to get it down▪ […] can bear but little and that which is suited […] their diseased appetites.

Sermons also would be much sweeter to •ou, when you could confidently take •ome the consolatory part, and use our ministry as a help to your faith, and hope, and •oy; whereas your doubts and fears lest you are still unregenerate, will turn all that you •ear, or read, or meditate on, into food and fuel for themselves to work upon; and you will gather up all that tends to your disquietment, and say, It is your part; and cast away all that rendeth to your consolation, and say, it belongeth not to you: and the most comforting passages of the word will be turned into your discomfort: and the promises will seem to you as none, while you imagine that they are none of yours; And the loss of your peace and comfort will not be the worst: But this will increase