1'be deceitfulne, JJe of Mans heart. how itre[ ch wee out our plumes ? how defpifc wee . others in regard of our (elves ? when yet if wee throughly law the clofe corruptions of our own hearts, wee fhould think the worft better than our fe lves. Yea,iu our very prayers,fpeaking to G od,ho w farce are wee from the true humbling, bowing, and proftrating our fpirits before the Lord? Whereas if we law and felt our poverty and milery, wee fhculd (peak to God, as the poor beggerly wretch doth to the rich man. The poore man, faith Solomon, fpeaketh fitpplications. When a man comes abroad wich his face full of (pots, it is a fgne that he knowes not of them, that he did not ufe the Looking- glafí'e before he came out : A farre more certaine fign it is, than as yet we have not in the Law feen the faces of our hearts,when we Fan fo boldly and impudently come both into Gods and mans prefence,with grofle cor- ruptions unwafhen out. When lob faw in Godsglo- ry,as in a glafre, his own corruption , how was hee prefently meekoed ? then he layes the hand on the mouth, abhorres himlelfe in duff and afhes, and vi- lifies himlelfe to the full.Peter alto upon like occafi- on cries out, Depart Lordfrom tne,lam a fn ul1nmN. According to our humility is our knowledge of our felves.The more we fee our corruption, the greater will be our humility.When Pali/Caw the filthy pud- dle of concupifcence that was in him , then was he throughly taken down indeed. Before he teemed to be alive tohimlelfe, but this fo gaftly a fight of the filthy vifage ofhis own heart, as at his firft conver- fion it almoft ftruck him dead, fo long after it m ade him cry our, I am coma : Mifrable man that I arm. Y 3 Our 325 Pruv.18.:3. lob 41, r. 6. Luke 8.5.6
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