3 5 2 ( The deceit firineff of Matts heart. Can. 5.2, 3 The plaine 3z. open heart. Kali 39. Pfal.z4z.S o carry the greateft ftroke with us. 3 This note di(covererh thole alto for unfound, that having Come care of outward conformity, yet minde not the inward reformation of the heart. In this regard our Saviour cals the Phari(ees,hypecrites, and refembles them to painted Sepulchers. Art be. gins where Nature ends. Nature in the framing of mans body, begins firft with the heart, and other Inch inward parts, and then i the laft place comes to the face, and the outward parts. Thus is it with hypocrlfie, which is an artificiali kinde of holineffe; it begins and ends in the outward face and fathion of religion: the inward pitch,the heart and fubftance hereof it cannot attaine unto.hut the heart and the purity thereof,is the fpeciall thing the fiocere Chri- ftian looks unto. Gods Ifrael is pure in heart, fo that though fometimes the hands be defiled,yet then the heart is not alike polluted:but ftïil the true Ifraelite may fay, My heart is azvalie, though mine eyes fleep. Whereas the bale Ifraelice may fay contrarily, My heart is atleep though my eyes be waking, and my tongue bee walking. My heart is foule, though my hand be never Co fine. 3 A fiocere heart is a plain and open heart, not dt firous to (mother, or craftily to conceale its fins, >ut rather to have them laid open, and to have the confcience rubbed and ranfacked. So that with Da- vid it cry eth ; 7ry wee, O Lord, and f e i f there be any rrickedneffe in me: and with the fame Prophct,let tie ightcon., finite rne.But an unfound &crooked heart, as well as crooked leggcs, loves to be hid. It hates -he light; it cannot away with reprehenfion , but would
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