Asarkokaukemma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, opened in a sermon preached…Asarkokaukēma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, open'd in a sermon preached…

It is an humbling consideration, pride came in by the fall, and then man began to be proud, when he had lost his perfection, he never was lifted up till he had cast himself down from his excellency: empty casks sound most, while the well-fraught vessel silenceth its own fullness, and giveth no echo to temptation. You may easilier draw it out, hen make it speak: the Holy ⟨p. 46⟩Ghost alludes to the metaphor,¹ Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out: take in the next verse,² and it makes up the sense: Most men will every man proclaim his own goodness; the empty multitude will sound out their own praises, but the man of deep and solid worth, must be pierced, if you will know what is in him. This is an infallible observation, that pride is found in supposed worth, rather then in real.

It is an humbling consideration, pride came in by the fall, and then man began to be proud, when he had lost his perfection, he never was lifted up till he had cast himself down from his excellency: empty casks sound most, while the well-fraught vessel silenceth its own fulnesse, and giveth no echo to temptation. You may easilier draw it out, hen make it speak: the Holy ⟨p. 46⟩Ghost alludes to the metaphor,¹ Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out: take in the next verse,² and it makes up the sense: Most men will every man proclaim his owne goodnesse; the empty multitude will sound out their own praises, but the man of deep and solid worth, must be pierc't, if you will know what is in him. This is an infallible observation, that pride is found in supposed worth, rather then in real.

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