Things worth thinking on, or, Helps to piety being remains of some meditations, experiences,…

93 A wicked man ([Greek or Hebrew]) is not a friend to himself; he flies and labours to run away from himself like Adam, as well as from God; and is never in so bad company, as when he is (and therefore ca• seldom endure to be) alone, because he is then with his own guilty conscience: and this makes men study sa• many Pastimes and Arts of diversion or to fall a building, as Cain did. They endeavour to hide their faults, no• only from others, but to conceal them from themselves: they esteem their crimes not sufficiently hidden, if themselves see them; they with-draw them from their own conscience, b• bribing, blinding, and searing it […] much as they can.

93 A wicked man (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) is not a friend to himself; he flies and labours to run away from himself like Adam, as well as from God; and is never in so bad company, as when he is (and therefore ca• seldome endure to be) alone, because he is then with his own guilty conscience: and this makes men study sa• many Pastimes and Arts of diversion or to fall a building, as Cain did. They endeavour to hide their faults, no• only from others, but to conceal them from themselves: they esteem their crimes not sufficiently hidden, if themselves see them; they with-draw them from their own conscience, b• bribing, blinding, and searing it 〈…〉 much as they can.

94 Some men hate their own vice in others, as if they had not the trade of sin enough to themselves, unle•• ⟨p. 69⟩