238 VJob 3r. 33. V. are our flefh and blond fayes one, it is my na- ture fayes a le- icond, a, Cannot help it fayes a third, I am not the firft fayes a ifourth, 'twas bad kompany drew me fayes a fifth, if it be a finIam ferry for it fays a fixth, if it be naught !cry God mercy fayes a fe- ventb. And thus wicked men are as hypocritical in their confeilions as they are in their profeffsens Sic. A Box of precious Ointment: Or, we are all infe6ted with it. Man by nature is a vain glorious creature, apt to boaft and brag of the fins that he is free of, but unwilling to confefs the fins that he is guilty of. There are no men fo prone to conceal their own wickedness; as thofe that are mat forward to proclaim their own good- nets. There are many that are not alha wed to act fin, who yet are afhamed to confefs fin ; but certainly of all fhame,. that is the molt fhameful fhame, that leads a man to hide hisi fins. But now the true penitent he makes confcience of con - fetng fins as well as great fins ' fecret fins as well as open fins, Pfal, 9o. 8. Pfal. 19. 12. David confeffes not on- ly his great fins of murder and adultery, but he confefres al- to his felf-revenge intended againfi Natosl, and of his knife being fo neer Sails throat, when he cut off the lap of Saul's garment. A true Penitent is much in confeffing and lament- ing over that fecret pride, that fecret fiefhlinefe, that fecret worldlinels,that fecret hypocrite, that fecret vain glory,&c. that is only obvies to God and his own foul. But 'tis quite otherwife with wicked men ; for they confefs their gruffer fins, but never obferve their idler fns; they confefs their open fins, but never lay open their fecret fins. Cain con- feffes his murdering of his brother, but never confeffes his fecret enmity that him upon wahling his hands in his bro- ther's bloud. Tbaroah confeffes his oppreflion of the chil- dren of /frac/ but he does not confefs the pride of his heart, nor the hardnefs of his heart. Yuda,/ coffees his betraying, of innocent blood, but he never confeffes his covetoufnefs, that put him upon betraying of the Lord of glory. And o- thers have confeft their ApoRacy; who have never coffell their hypocrite that hath led them to Apollacv, &c. Well, this is certain, that thofe little fins, thofe fecAt fins, that ne- ver break a (inners fleep , do often break 'a believers heart® Thirdly, As true penitential confellion is full, fo 'tis fin- sere, 'tis cordial L'tis not a feigned, nor a formal, nor a sneer verbal confeflion, but an atfe&ionare confelfion ; 'tis a confeffion that has the mind, the heart, the foul as,well as the lip
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