The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

My Brethren; we are all of us naturally, full of our selves, full of our selves, full of the self of Pride, full of the self of Love, Self-love, full of Self-conceits, full of Self-sufficiency; we are apt to think highly to our selves. We all hold of Adam in Capite; we are all full of Pride. As Pride was the Fall of Adam, so it would be the ruin of us.

My Brethren; wee are all of us naturally, full of our selves, full of our selves, full of the self of Pride, full of the self of Love, Self-love, full of Self-conceits, full of Self-sufficiency; wee are apt to think highly to our selves. Wee all hold of Adam in Capite; wee are all full of Pride. As Pride was the Fall of Adam, so it would bee the ruine of us.

We think we are Rich, full, need nothing. As the Church did in the place afore quoted, Rev. 3.17, 18.

Wee think wee are Rich, full, need nothing. As the Church did in the place afore quoted, Rev. 3.17, 18.

Thus, where Faith comes, it empties a man of himself, his Self-conceits; it doth discover our selves, to our selves; makes us see our selves, as we lye weltering in blood, in our own blood, Ezek. 16.2, 3, 4, 5, 6. even in the Blood of Guilt, and the Blood of Filth. It puts down those Towering thoughts, those Airy imaginations, those Mountainous conceits which men had of themselves. It casts us out of our selves, makes us Nothing in our selves; makes us poor in our selves, [Greek or Hebrew], as the word is,