Serm.3. be difcoveredandMertified ? 6E 7. It may be known, by the covers, and cloaks, and fair pretences, that the (inner hash for ibis tin. Uncleannefs, and intemperance, are but tricks of youth, and towing his wild Oats : Luxury is magnifi- cerac , covecoufnefs is good husbandry,pride is.a pieceof noblenefs,and grandureof fpirit : yea, which is more, 'cis humility ; you haveforce that difparage themfelves in company, and they call this 'humility, when in truth, it is the height of their fpirits ; like the Archer, that draws back the arrow, that it may fly fo much the higher, and fo much the further. 'Tis firange biindnefs, or deceit, or both, tocall no, yel- low,or forne middlecolour, but black white : yet thus it is with many; they fhape their darling lut}, like thole verrues, unto which they are extreamly contrary. Every wicked man is fins advocate, and will plead its caufe gratis. Oh faith fAa's, to What purpofe is this watie, This Mat.,, 6. 8,9. oyntment might have been fold for muchand given to the poor : this he Paid, faith another Evangelist-, Not that be cared for the poor, btu becaufe jó11.12.6. he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Beware offpeaking any thing, towards the jut}ification of your felves in any wayof wickednets : youknow the malefaé}or is condemned before he is put to death,and fo it is in the cafe of fin,cumpeccator yzsifacatrar,pec- cattem condemrßatter, when a (inner is juluiued, his fin is condemned, and after condemnation followeth execution : `Tab vindicates himfelf in this particular : 1 f1covered my tranfgreJons as Adam,by hiding mine inipsi- job 31.33,40, ties in my bofom, &c. then let thifllesgrow inflead of wheat : as if he had faid, I did not hide mine iniquity as Adamdid, I did not cover my r.ranfgrelfìon, I was open and ingenuous : the Pfalmi f faith, Bleffed,is the manwhofe iniquity isfòrgiven,and wholefin is covered, but then it mull be by Gods hand,norours. 8. If there be any one fin more than other, that the fou! loth readi- ly clefe with, that is its beloved fin : its right-eje fin, or its right -hand fin. Sa npfon, when all the world could not take away his ttrengt h, is eafily perfwaded by Dalilah. See how Solomon expreffes the Harlors g o`- .70.I. dealing with the young man : with ?loch fair fpeech (he caufed him to yield, with the flattering of her lips the forcedhim : the.mof} the could do was co flatter him, and yet notwithlian ling it is faid file forced him: Sin works altogether by enticement ; Every man is tempted, when he is Tan,,s . s } drawn away of his own lor/l, and enticed, yet it is fo powerful that it a- mounts to a force, as the requel+ of a King amounts unto acom- mand. 9. That finwhich a man wi(hes were no fn, is like to he his beloved fi : the cafe of theyoung man in the Gofpel is confiderable tó this pur-
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