278 l The deceitfulneffe of Mans heart. tous man bath a fair pretence : O why fhould 1 waft_ fully rnifpend Gods creatures ? why fhould I make my belly my God ? Bcit why dolt thou not rightly ufe Gods creatures ?why dolt thou make thy money thy God ? The prodigall,lately covetous,his colour is as goad why fhould I make my Celle a drudge to my goods ? yea, and why íhouldeft thou make thy Celle a drudge to thy pleafures? In the fame kinde of deceit are force brought from prefumption to de- (petition, from thinking their fins are nothing, and char they can repent when they lift for them , Í think that they are greater than that ever they can repent,or ande mercy at Gods hand.By the like de- cec é: re men come from too much honouring of Minifters, which was in Popery, to too much con- running of them. As it was in the Church of Co- rinth , force would give too much to the Minifters, fervilely apprentifing their judgements unto them, I arc pm't's, I am Apollo's : Another fort, to avoid this extremity on the right hand, went as farre out on thç left, in the utter-rejefting of the Minifter : 1 am drifts, I care not for any Minifter, but will bee taught immediatly by Chrift himfelfe. And there - fore Paul after hee had(refuted thofe offending in the exceffe, left any through this deceitfulnefl-e fhould decline too much to*hedeft &,he wifely qua- lifies the matter : Let a man jet think ofus as of the z Cos. 4. r. MinPiers ofChriff, and difpofirs ofthe fecretsofGod. Let no man think that there is no other way to avoid too much dignifying theMinifters,thau by coo much nullifying of'them. This is like the husbandmans error, when in correcting the crookednes of a twig, beet
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