The deceitfielnefe of mans heart. 303 the eye there bee a beame of wickedneffc : O then the great flack that is in the heart!And if the tongue si trabcs in but the inftrument of the heart', be fuch a world of ocu'o(lrues in' wickedneffe,and unruly evil,what then is the heart? corde. The whole frame of our hearts is continually evill. O the rout and rabble of filthy and impure thoughts that lurk in this dungeon ! The temple it was once of the Holy Ghofl;buc now, as it fareth with many, material! temples; which as it is reported through covetoufnefi'e of Inclofers , are become ftables for horCes : Co this glorious temple is become a flunking fiie,and fiable of uncleane fpm °:s,a cage of unclean birds, a den of theeves,a receptacle of all manner of pollution. 1 1. Ail evils, the whole body offinne,that is, the feeds and ipawnes even of the vilefl corruptions are in the heart of man. Naturally the befl of us have an inclinableneffe even to the moil odious and loathfome finnes. As in that Chaos at firfi Creation there were the feeds of all the creatures, fire, are, water,heaven,earth; lo in mans heart of all fins:Vp- on which í er but the fpirit of Sachan move, as once the Cpirit of God upon the chaos,& with the warmth ofhis temptations heat it, and no leffe ugly Mon - flers will proceed our of our hearts, than did once goodly creatures out of that chaos. Hence it was that thole things which David fpake of certain vile notorious wicked'finners,chat their throat was an o- pen kepulchre,the gall o f4fpes was under their tongue, ar e applyed by S. Paul to every mothers child of us For there is neither a barrel better herring:but as the holy Proverb is,Ar in water face anfivereth to Prow :7, rg. face,
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