The deceit fülneffe of Mans heart. 323 is au unfound heart , there will be Apoftafie in the end, whatfoever (huwes be mad*. For an evil' heart is alwayes a deceiHfull heart. Againe, this mutt further teach us not to truft them,in whom we doe difcern an evil' and unfound heart,let their outward (hewer be never Co glorious. For an evill heart will deceive the man himfelfe in whom is is,much more will it deceive others. How now can any man fafely repofe any confidence in an unregenerate friend or fervant , whole hearts are evill and unrenewed, though otherwife never fo civilly horeft? What aflp,:rance can I have of him, that bath none of himfelfe ? Or how fhould I think hee would not deceive me, who in the end mutt needs deceive himfelfe ? VSESSISECTIEUVUUMWERESESIN CHAP. XXVII. Of tte unflarchablentyi of the heart, andof fix notes to difcover it. F the two former ílluûrations of the hearts deceitfulneffe, thegreatneffe ofir, that it is deceitfuft above all things, and the cads of it, that it is wicked, wee have fpoken: The third illuftration folio wes, which is from the unfearcha bleneffe of it, who can know it ? that is, few or none can know , not only; others, but their ov, n hearts. objea. This may kettle to be againft that of the Apoftle;Noman knorreth what is in man five God,and Y 2 the ; The un- îearchahlenes of it. Where is it,
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