270 The deceitfudnef'e of Álan,r h eart. courtefie. To conclude.In the hearing ofthe word, how doe we feele fometimes our hearts to hurtle and glow within us ! O , the heavenly afftiions we then feeleinkindled ! O, the tweet difpofition, jand frame our hearts be in then ! Little would wee ìthink then that afterward wee fhould be fo much cooled, as we are very quickly after our departure from this fire , and comming into the freezing gyre Ham T;. ed ' of the world : In which regard, as Chryfo?nme p..4ntèscb. Caies , the Minifters have the greater trouble, be- caufe they never finde their work as they left ir, as other workmen doe,the Smith,the Joyner, &c.vv, ho as they left their work in the evening, fo finde it in the morning : but Minifters flrall finde their work altogether put out of frame and order, by reafon of our deceitfull hearts, that f Bale from us chofe good affe1ions we bad before. If a borie na- turally trot, and for fornefpace of time bath accu- ftomed himfelfe thereto, though by Art he be bro- ken, and made amble, yet in journeying he will bee ever and anon offering to goe our of his amble Into 143 trot : So regenerate men, becaufe naturally their hearts are evill , though in part mortified by grace they have learned to doe well, yet ever and anon they have experience of the readines of their, heart to break out into their olde courtes. Cor- ruption in them will have Tome Hurts. Our heart is the infirument we mull work with, in the ter - vice of God : But a deceitfull ínftrument will not hold out in working ; no more will our deceitfull heart in the (crying of God. z. Deceit. The fecordpoint of deceit fulneffe in this kinde,is in the
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