; so The deceit frrineffe o f Mans heart. I14atth.2,3.2.5. opened. Man h.z7.6. uafis bore in- nocentir fmu. latir pecuniam fangr.inis non mitt ere in ar- cam,eir ipfaim janguinem In it- ter e in confcien- tiam ? Aug. Luke 16.1o. lohn iz,6,8t 18.3. this is the meaning of that of our Saviour ; Woe bee tvyou scribes and Pharifies, hypocrites; foryee risake cleave the outward fide of the cup and platter : but within they are full of bribery andex .refís. So likewife tubs his thirty pieces at no hand muff goe into the treafury, becaufe it was the price of blond. What a counterfeiting ofholinef e was rhis,not to Puffer the price of bloodto lie in a Chef. , and yet to fuf~ter blood it felfe to lie in the Confcience: 2 This note likewife difcovereth fuch for un- found,whofe confcience is only for the greater mat- ters, the importants of the Law, Mercy and Judge naent,without any regard of Mint or Aaanif,though thefe alto be Gods commandements, and ought to be regarded. A fincere heart is like to the eye, trou- bled with the leaft mote : or like a neate fprufe man, that no fooner fj ies the leaf( (peck or (pot in his garment, but he gets it wafhed out : Whereas a crafty floven, though hee be all to be- fineared and befoiled, he can endure it well enough. A delicate Garden may not have the leaft weed in ir, though the Wildernefí`e be allover -grown with them. And a Box of precious Oyntment may not have the leaft flie in it, though a Barrel] of Pitch have ( warmes of them.A ftraite fhooe cannot endure the leaf( pibble ftone, though a wide one may endure a greater, An unfound Confcience is large, and can ('wallow down any thing : The fincere Confcience is ftrait, and the leaft bone, though but fuch as are in little fifhes,will flick in her throat.And certainly hee that is unjuji in the leap is kvjuf alfo in touch. Judas being untaithfull to Chrift in the matter of szroney.
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