Itheir outward man to fome evil! conformity, their heals yet inwardly (welling again, till they are rea- dy to burft, with aboundance of evil and noylome luit. No, the heart, as it is the fountain of this na- turall life ; and as at firft it was the fountain of a fin- full life; fo all() matt it be the fountain of a fpirituall life;that as in the motion of theprimum mobile in the heavens, all the inferior fpheres are moved together with it : fo here , the heart being fpiritually moved by the holy Ghoit,in the work ofconverfion,all our outward parts may move together with it;every one of them receiving from it, as from a good treafury their feverall portions of goodneffe,Mat.1 a. pre.4. So much for the firft point , what this wickednes is. The fecond is, that this wickednelfe of the heart is the caufe ofthis deceitfulneife: which is the mea- ning of the Prophets cot junítion of wickedneffe with deceitfulneffe in this place. For this property of deceitfulneffe is by the Apoftle given to finne : and fo our hearts come to be deceitful!, as they are äe..3.,3. defiled with finne. For (inne blinds the n inde, and fo makes it eafie to be deceived , and to rmiftake. We fee how eafily blinde Ifaacl£ miftook the youn- ger fon for the elder. As eafily are our blind hearts deceived, miftaking the motions of the flefh, for the fpirit;fuggeftions ofSathan,for the voyce of the ho. ly Ghoft; presences and colours ofzeale, for true and naturali zeal, &c. Thereafter therefore as finne is more or lefle in the heart, fo is deceit. The moft godlymen,by reafon they are not wholly (tee from finne , have alto experience of this deceitfulneffe: But the deceitfulneffe of wicked mens hearts is farm Y greater The deceitfebtef of Mans heart, 3ar
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