of the Itiothang-Exerafe. 3 83 jeering ; Take a itab in their hearts, that they may avoid a fcratcu upon their finger. 2. See be folly of thofe,that defire the removal of their Suffering:, rather than of their Siis : Takeaway the Frogs, not my hardheart. 3. This thews what fhould be our greatelt complaint in the midit of a troublelom world, not my farrows, plunderings , imprifan- ments; Lord, but the fcarcities ofmy foul, &c. 4. This thews the grand miltake of the natureof truefafety. Men think fafety to be meerly to fleep in a found skin, but 'tis not fafety to be preferved from danger, but from fin. True, the menof the world, yea, the beft of Saints are too too apt to miltake in this cafe, there's A heart within them that is very apt to think fometimes finning, to be chafen rather thanfuffering, nat in wicked menonly, but in the belt of men : for, as in water face anfwereth to face, fo the heart ofman, to man, which lets me into The fourth Sermon. Prov. 27. i 9. As in Waterface anfwereth to face, fo cloth the heart of man to matt. N this Proverb two things. I. The Propofition, and that by a fimilittde, As in wateryface an. fwereth to face. k 2'. The Redititm, So cloth the heart ofman to man. Or in the words, thefe twogenerals to be obferved. AGills. 2. An Objeet to be feen in this Glafs. . A Glafs, a notable one, that's twofold, Adead Glafs, Water a living Glafs, the heart of Man. 2. TheObjet` tobe feen in there Glaffes : In tile dead Glafs, the face ofman is to be feen,In the living Glafs,the heart of man : There's all the Species and Comple&ions of the Sons, nay, of the Souls of the Sons of men to be teen. That as by looking into thewater, you may difcern your own and other mens countenances, and that plainly and clearly, fo, by looking into your own hearts, ifyou could have a. Cafement into the hearts ofother men ; there may you fee ofwhi=t Spiritual Completlion, Confthution., and Make you are, as clearly as a man may fee hisface inwater. As inWater, Bcc. From thefe words this great truth, that theheart ofevery man in the world is a Looking- 'Tis fuck a Lookino-glafs wherein he may fee himfelf , phis Condidon, Conftitution, fp°ecial Cornpledion, whether it be moral- ]D d d ilY3
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