322 Vfe zy Fieb.3.isi The deceitfrdnefe of Moo heart. greater,by reafon that firme in them is fare greater, even in his full ftrength and vigor, but in the godly linae is as it were wounded in the head, and crazed in the braine;and Co letre able to deceive.The Scrip- ture cals finne in the godly , the old man; Now old men that are'ready to dote for age, are twice chil- dren, and h we no great ftore of craft. This mutt teach us, as we delire in the profeflion of religion, not to be deceived by our own hearts, Co lo purge, to rinC , and renew them daily by re- pentance, not fufferingthe leaft fin to be h zrboured there. For if we have an evil] heart, affeecing and nourishing but any one íinnc,rhis heart will deceive us in the end,whatfoever be our profefiion of religi on. laadas may be an example for us. His heart was an evil hearr,a covetous he art,even in the greatefi heat of his following Chrift, and preaching the Word. ,Therfore alto it proved a deceitful hearr,..nd at Taft betrayed him into the hands of that fearefüll fin of betraying his Matter. Neither is there any other reafon why thole forward and fervent ones, in the parable of the ftony ground fell away, but the want ofagood and honeft heart, which only they that are figured by the latt kinde of ground have. For as an honeft man will not deceive another, with whom, Co neither wil an honeft heart deceive the man him Celle in whom it is. This was the reafon why Pha- raoh and others, their fits of godlineffe did not ]aft; becaufe there was no true change of their naughty and corrupt hearts. Remember we then the Apo- ¡Iles warning , Take heed left there be bijou an evil] heart,to depart awa,, from the livingGod.Where there is
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