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

sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of ⟨p. 379⟩his holiness: for his anger endureth but for a moment: in his favour is life, Psal. 30.2, 3, 4, 5. Thanksgiving would be the very pulse and breath of your assurance of Christ dwelling in you. You would say with Paul, Eph. 1.3, 4. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in celestials in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in Love: having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved; In whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins, according to the riches of his grace, wherein he hath abounded toward us, &c.] Thus faith and assurance, as they have an unspeakable store to work upon, so it is natural to them to expatiate in the praise of our Redeemer, and to delight in amplifications and commemorations of the ways of grace. Just so doth Peter begin his first Epistle [Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the ⟨p. 380⟩resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for you who are kept by the power of Go• through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time, wherein ye greatly rejoice, &c.

sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of ⟨p. 379⟩his holiness: for his anger endureth but for a moment: in his favour is life, Psal. 30.2, 3, 4, 5. Thanksgiving would be the very pulse and breath of your assurance of Christ dwelling in you. You would say with Paul,