Q96. What is it for me to know myself?
Then thou knowest thyself, when thou art in thine own eyes, a loathsome, polluted, wretched, miserable sinner; and that not anything done by thee, can pacify God unto thee.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
Job 42:5
“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”
Ezekiel 20:43,44
“And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.”
Romans 7:24
“O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”