Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

But when we have searched, and find thing• not to go as well as they ought, or that we are not in a right way, then after our searching we must,

Turn unto the Lord: Thus the Prophet did, Psal. 129.57. I thought upon my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. First he thought on his ways, he considered, whither he was going, to Heaven, or Hell; then when he had thus thought, he made hast, and turned his feet unto Gods testimonies. Here are both put together: first he made hast and thought on his ways, and then he turned.

Turn unto the Lord: Thus the Prophet did, Psal. 129.57. I thought upon my wayes, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. First he thought on his wayes, he considered, whither he was going, to Heaven, or Hell; then when he had thus thought, he made hast, and turned his feet unto Gods testimonies. Here are both put together: first he made hast and thought on his ways, and then he turned.

I took this Text to show that one of these is as dangerous as the other, and how men are apt to deceive themselves in their search and examination. 'Tis as dangerous not to prove our ways, as to put off and defer our •ur•ing to God. This is a dangerous disease, that when men come to examine and try their spiritual estates, they have false weights and unequal balances to prove themselves by: they are very willing to save themselves the labour, though they be deceived. A man is loth to be cozened by another; but here is his folly, that he is willing enough to deceive and betray himself. Such Fools the Devil makes many men, because they take not right Glasses to look on themselves in, and so they deceive themselves. For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing; he deceiveth himself; but let every man prove, &c.