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…

Be they those inward excellencies, Wisdom, ¹Learning, &c. Though they may be of use, a man may have them and yet be miserable; Ahithophel was a wise man, and yet his own Executioner; Judas wanted no parts, and yet was the son of perdition; and without controversy, none in the world so gifted as the Apostate-Angels; the devil hath more learning then all the Universities in the world can give a man, and yet a devil.

Be they those inward excellencies, Wisdom, ¹Learning, &c. Though they may be of use, a man may have them and yet be miserable; Achitophel was a wise man, and yet his own Executioner; Judas wanted no parts, and yet was the son of perdition; and without controversie, none in the world so gifted as the Apostate-Angels; the devil hath more learning then all the Universities in the world can give a man, and yet a devil.

1. 1Inward endowments, may leave a man miserable.

A man may attain to rare perfections, and yet never see the face of God, 1 Cor. 13.1, 2, 3.

And even for grace it self,¹ saving graces they are none of our own; nor left in our own keeping, if they were, we ⟨p. 62⟩should quickly prove bankrupts as our first Parents did;