3 94 z g DeGre. Deceit, Z. i a The deceitfrrlaeffe of glass heart. Court could nothing cheere , or comfort, in the common calamities of the Church of God. 2 When, betides the common evils of the Church, we fuffer foreperfonallafflic` ions, that concerne us folely. If our griefe be truly for the Churches evils, then, in this cafe, the fenfe ofgriefe of the publike evils will blunt the edge of our pri- vate furrow. As in two difeafes of the body , the ftone, and the gout, when they meet together, the griefe of the ftone,becaufe it is the greater, loth take away all fence of the gout becaufe it is the Idle : fo here, in a godly minde, the griefe for our own private, is drowned in the greater griefe for the Churches publike diftrefles. But if it bee quite contrary with us,that we cannot feele the Churches mifery,we are fo affcted with the fenfe of our own, this is more than a prefumption , that when the Churches ahiiáions were our own, wee mourned then for them, onely as our own, and not as the Churches; making the name of the Church only a vizour, and imitating Polrss,that, under the repre- fentation of anothers griefe, truly, and heartily la- mented the death of his own Tonne. S Affe %ion is Defire. In the which alla is a dou- ble deceit. i When our asmaturall de fires are cloaked with the name oft/aturall. Though mens defiresare in- finite, arad infatiable, yet for all this dually they deceive themfelves with this, that they defrre onely a competency, neither poverty, nor riches, but onely ...tors convenient portion. Nowcompeten- cie is that, which will not only ferve mature, but that
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