S4} TbcMotile oftkSpent, af rvitPkáite: S àc T. XL. 34, 35. Om of the ab aidaïciethe heart the monthfpeak tb, themigtf thinketh, the handWorketh. . Confiderati- , To open this Doctrine; confider on to open Ft;lt That there are many in theWorld, whopotter andbleffetbemfelves with the the Dut. Soodneffe of. thtirbeart, When yet their lives are flogof noifemelofts.- You would I wonder men Ihould be fo bewitched ; andyet how often is it ? Take the prophane man,and the molt ungodly wretch that is; yet hewill fay, He bath asgood an heart as tfc beltofrmen; nocconlideringhow impolfible it is to divide agood heart,and a good life one from another. As men doe not gather Grapes of Thorns, not Figs of finales ' s to neither can Thorns be gathered from Grapes, or Thifileg from Figs... As wecannot exped*clean thing float an unclean; fo neither an unclean thing from a clean : fo chat the lives and constant wicked aéìions of molt, men, doe declare it to their, faces, that there is no new heart orfpirit within them: and as!there arefoch -kindof Self.Dceiyers : 'fo thereore another fore cf Petloos,called Aticademites, inchwho thought they might lawfullycommunicate in any talfeoridolatricals:Worship, or mightdeny theoutward profefiion of the truth of Christ, if fo be that they kept their Conlcience clear to God. This grievous error did mirth prevail when the outwardprofeffion of Chrift and his Truth was accompanyed with great and imminent daggers: they thought they might give up their bodies to any outward pollution-; fo chat they kept their fouls for God ; but Godwill be glorified infoul and inbody alto, rtCor.d.zo. And as we muff with the heart believe, fo we mu[t with the mouth make Confelfaon to fafvaclon:Kohs.ro. ro. 2. Secondly, Even in the godly, the kart many times may be defirost of that good Which per through the power of corruption they are not alwayesable toperform. So that althoughanew heart bewithin them, yet much corruption, and many frail- ties may be in their life. Rom. 7. `Paul exceedingly groaned under this miferie, That thegood heWonlado ,he coma nor da; arid although out of the abundance of the h;art the mouth fpeakcch, yet the mouthcannot fpeak all the abundanceof the heart : There is more Itrength of Grace in the heart theta poflibly can be ex- prìfled outwardly. As no child can cxpreffehowmuch ittovech itsfather; fónei- ther can any 'foul manifeft howmuch-it lovethGod. Howfoever therefore a new heart is in the godly, yet belaufe it is not perfeltly and abfolutely new, it failech in many outward performances; frame outwardor inward temptations make it come fhort of thegrace it defireth. Thus the Auofie, The Spirit and the /left la- flethoneagainf another, fo that yecannot doe thethings,: Would, Gal. y.17. A god- ly man thenmerit judge wifely concerning himfelf ; they areready to think, Oh if Grace were inmy heart, if the fpiritof Goddid dwell inme, howcould I be over- taken with pallions, with dulncffe and fluggifhnefhe; they muff remember, that though thefpirit be willing theflefh is often weak; yeamany times both.fpiritand flefh alfo maybe weak : But whydot we fpeak of this asa flange thing? That wherethe PrinciplesofGrace are menmay fail inoutward duties ; for fometimes we feewhere they havebeen, yet foul and grope fins have beencommitted, yeaand for Lome feafon continued in. David had the Spirit of God within ; yet in his Murder and Adultery he did notwalk in the Lords Statutes; and foofdiversoyhers; So that wem1a[t not abfolutely condemn thofe as hypocrites, andwithout any true principlesofgrace,who living after a godly manner, yet fometimesfall in the mire, and tumble io blood: for although fach a condition isvery terrible, and greatly lcandalou ; yet the feeds and inward principles of grace arc not quite exnnlf; and therefore when we fay, Agodly heart, and a godly life are neceffarilyconjoy- ned together, that is to be underfcood for themoll part, and according to thena- tnre of things, though accidentally, through fuddain temptations, theclean con- trary may appear. Thirdly, There maybe inwardprinciples of Grace, and yet no easwardfruits of righteouf-
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