Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners

1. Ignorant. Though Judges are learned in the repute of the World: Alas, poor crawling breathing dust! Do you know the secrets of your Masters counsel? and are you able to over reach them, and frustrate his designs? Doth this Book know what is written in it? Can the Seat you sit on, over-top your counsels? more likely then for you to over-top the Lord: silly worms, you know not what God is, nor know you any one of his unrevealed thoughts, no more then that Pillar doth know ⟨p. 92⟩your thoughts: you know not what you are your selves, nor see any further then the superficies of your skin; what is thy soul? and when didst thou receive it? Dost thou know its form, or didst thou feel it enter? which part didst thou feel it first possess? Thou canst call it a Spirit, but knowest thou what a Spirit is? or rather only what it is not; Thou knowest not that whereby thou knowest; and how was thy body formed in the womb? what was it an hundred years ago? what is that vital heat and moisture? what causeth that order and (diversity of its parts? when will the most expert Anatomists and Physicians be agreed? Why, there are mysteries in the smallest worm which thou canst not reach; nor couldst thou resolve the doubts arising about an Ant or Atom, much less about the Sun, or Fire, or Air or or Wind, &c. and canst thou not know thy self, nor the smallest part of thy self, nor the smallest Creature? and yet canst thou overreach the everlasting Counsels?

1. Ignorant. Though Judges are learned in the repute of the World: Alas, poor crawling breathing dust! Do you know the secrets of your Masters counsel? and are you able to over reach them, and frustrate his designs? Doth this Book know what is written in it? Can the Seat you sit on, over-top your counsels? more likely then for you to over-top the Lord: silly worms, you know not what God is, nor know you any one of his unrevealed thoughts, no more then that Pillar doth know ⟨p. 92⟩your thoughts: you know not what you are your selves, nor see any further then the superficies of your skin; what is thy soul? and when didst thou receive it? Dost thou know its form, or didst thou feel it enter? which part didst thou feel it first possess? Thou canst call it a Spirit, but knowst thou what a Spirit is? or rather only what it is not; Thou knowest not that whereby thou knowest; and how was thy body formed in the womb? what was it an hundred years agoe? what is that vital heat and moisture? what causeth that order and (diversity of its parts? when will the most expert Anatomists and Physitians be agreed? Why, there are mysteries in the smallest worm which thou canst not reach; nor couldst thou resolve the doubts arising about an Ant or Atome, much less about the Sun, or Fire, or Air or or Wind, &c. and canst thou not know thy self, nor the smallest part of thy self, nor the smallest Creature? and yet canst thou overreach the everlasting Counsels?