Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

2. The Remedy is in the next Verse, Let him prove his own work. Let him view himself in a true Glass, and that is the point we shall insist on. If then we provide, that Satan shall not delude us in deferring, and putting off our repentance; so let us also provide, that he deceive us not with a false conceit of our ways and estate ▪ that we may not make our selves something, when we are nothing. Therefore let us see what false Glasses they are, that men get to themselves. If Satan bring us to have a good opinion of our selves, and our condition, and persuade us, that it is not with us, as precise Preachers tell us; that it's no such matter to go to Heaven, but that it may be done with less pains and more ease: when, I say, Satan lulls a man asleep with such plausible things as these, he hath him where he would have him. Why then no marvel, if this man like his ways, when he looks upon them with false Glasses.

2. The Remedy is in the next Verse, Let him prove his own work. Let him view himself in a true Glass, and that is the point we shall insist on. If then we provide, that Satan shall not delude us in deferring, and putting off our repentance; so let us also provide, that he deceive us not with a false conceit of our wayes and estate ▪ that we may not make our selves something, when we are nothing. Therefore let us see what false Glasses they are, that men get to themselves. If Satan bring us to have a good opinion of our selves, and our condition, and perswade us, that it is not with us, as precise Preachers tell us; that it's no such matter to go to Heaven, but that it may be done with less pains and more ease: when, I say, Satan lulls a man asle•p with such plausible things as these, he hath him where he would have him. Why then no marvel, if this man like his ways, when he looks upon them with false Glasses.

¹1. The first false glass is Self-love, and the property of love is to make the good things in the party it loves very great, and the vices very little, Self-love represents nothing in it's true shape. The Apostle speaking of the latter days,