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

If you say, To what end do Ministers preach to me, and why do I hear them opening the natures of Grace and of Hypocrisy, if I cannot judge of my self by the doctrine which they preach? I answer, 1. You may and must judge your selves by the public common helps, as far as you are able: But a personal applying help, added unto this, is a further advantage. And humility should teach you, not to think better of your understandings then there is cause; nor to think you are so wise as to need but one help, when God hath provided you two: or that you need but the lesser, when he hath provided you a greater. And doth not your own experience convince you? ⟨image 256⟩⟨p. 420⟩Do you not find that after the best publi•• preaching you are yet in doubt, and at loss about your spiritual state, and therefore that you have need of further help?

If you say, To what end do Ministers preach to me, and why do I hear them opening the natures of Grace and of Hypocrisie, if I cannot judge of my self by the doctrine which they preach? I answer, 1. You may and must judge your selves by the publike common helps, as far as you are able: But a personal applying help, added unto this, is a further advantage. And humility should teach you, not to think better of your understandings then there is cause; nor to think you are so wise as to need but one help, when God hath provided you two: or that you need but the lesser, when he hath provided you a greater. And doth not your own experience convince you? ⟨image 256⟩⟨p. 420⟩Do you not find that after the best publi•• preaching you are yet in doubt, and at loss about your spiritual state, and ther••fore that you have need of further help?