An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

for Mariners in the time of a calm then they may look to their several Cabins, but in the time of a storm, then to be ⟨p. 315⟩painting and making fine their Cabins, how do they deserve to be pulled out by the ears, and to be cast into the Sea, that shall then be looking to their own Cabins? What is your joy more than the joy of others? and what are you that you must have ease and content more than others? In such times as these are if ever God calls us to be emptied from our selves, certainly it is in such times as these are.

for Mariners in the time of a calm then they may look to their several Cabins, but in the time of a storm, then to be ⟨p. 315⟩painting and making fine their Cabins, how do they deserve to be pull'd out by the ears, and to be cast into the Sea, that shall then be looking to their own Cabins? What is your joy more than the joy of others? and what are you that you must have ease and content more than others? In such times as these are if ever God calls us to be emptied from our selves, certainly it is in such times as these are.

But the main Note is,¹ That it's all one to be an empty Christian, and to bring forth fruit to themselves. Men think that which they bring forth to themselves is clear gain; but this is an infinite mistake, for that which is for thy self is lost, and that which is for God is gained. Professors that are selfish are empty. Many of you complain of emptiness and unfruitfulness,² here's the reason; You are so selfish, that prayer is an empty prayer though never so full of words and excellent expressions whose end is self, many of the Saints in joining with such they find their prayers to be such though there be excellent words, because they see selvishness, men that aim at selvishness they had need be cunning to keep it from being seen, let self be seen in a duty though it be never so glorious outwardly yet it is loathsome in the eyes of the very Saints;