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

He therefore first most importunately urgeth them to the mediate duty of Self-examination: [Examine your selves, Whether you be in the faith: Prove your own selves:] Self-examination is but the Means of Self-knowledge. This therefore he next urgeth, and that first in General; and this by way of Interrogation, [Know ye not your own selves?] and then more particularly he tells them, what it is of themselves, that it most concerneth them to know, [How that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates.] As if he should say, [Alas, poor souls; you have more cause to question your selves then me: Go too therefore, examine and prove your selves. It is a shame for a man to be ignorant of himself. Know ye not your own selves? Either Christ is in you, by faith, and by his Spirit, or he is not. If he be not, you are yet but Reprobates, that is, disapproved of God, and at present in a forsaken, or condemned state your selves; (which is a conclusion that you will be loath to admit, but more concerneth you:) If Christ be in you, it was by the means of my ministry; and therefore that ministry hath been powerful and effectual to you; and ⟨p. 3⟩you are my witnesses; the seal of my ministry is upon your own souls; Christ within you, bears me witness, and therefore of all men, you have least cause to question or quarrel with my ministry.]

He therefore first most importunately urgeth them to the mediate duty of Self-examination: [Examine your selves, Whether you be in the faith: Prove your own selves:] Self-examination is but the Means of Self-knowledge. This therefore he next urgeth, and that first in General; and this by way of Interrogation, [Know ye not your own selves?] and then more particularly he tells them, what it is of themselves, that it most concerneth them to know, [How that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates.] As if he should say, [Alas, poor souls; you have more cause to question your selves then me: Go too therefore, examine and prove your selves. It is a shame for a man to be ignorant of himself. Know ye not your own selves? Either Christ is in you, by faith, and by his Spirit, or he is not. If he be not, you are yet but Reprobates, that is, disapproved of God, and at present in a forsaken, or condemned state your selves; (which is a conclusion that you will be loath to admit, but more concerneth you:) If Christ be in you, it was by the means of my ministry; and therefore that ministry hath been powerfull and effectual to you; and ⟨p. 3⟩