304 The deceit fulneffé of Mans heart. face, fo doth the heart ofman toman.The image of our face in the water is no more like our face it felfe, than our heart is like the heart even of the vileft monfter that ever was. And when we fee fuch mon- íters in them, as in looking glaties, we may fee our felves, and the difpofician of our own foules. And thus we fee how the heart is totally evill. 2 It is alfa orignially evil'. Evill did not begin firft to pollute thy hand,thy eye, thy eare or any of thy outward parts, but it began with thy heart, to Ccat and neftle it felfthere,& from thence to diffufe and Icatter its poyfon into the external' members. Out ofthe heart faith our Saviour, come murthers, adulteries,thefts,blafpbemies,& fuch like ftuffe; even as the rivers out of the Sea. This is the fountaine, from whence all the ftreames of corruption flow : this is the womb, in which all thefe monfters are conceived: this is the fhell,in which thefe Cockatri- ces are hatched. Thus we fee how we are to under- (land this doctrine of the hearts deceitfulneffe. The Vfe. I. Againft the Papifts, that do fomething leffen this wickedneffe, and will have force reliques ofgoodneffe to remaine, force freedome of will to apply it felfe to good. I I. To teach us all true hu- miliation in the fight of our own naturali deformi- tie. No outward ornaments fhould fo lift us up, as our outward filthines fhould take us down.Art thou troubled with pride.?I can prefcribe thee no better, remedy, than to look upon the face of thy hearr,in the glaffe ofthe Word. For there thou (halt fee thy felfe fuch an ugly, natty, forlorne, mifhapen crea- cure,that thou canft not chufe but grow out of love with
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