356 i Chro.ro;z7, tohn . q7, Phi1.I, is. The - deceitfirine e of Manx heart. though it bee without his help yet rejoyceth and giveth thanks , nothing leife than if himfelfe had been the inflrument. Ifany gooi thing be done, he doth not fland curic.ufly :enquiring of the Author , of his judgement-, of his affeh}ions, to find out fome- thing to in-:bare the work; but is glad that any glory iE brougi ît to God , or good to his Church , and with thankefgiving taketh his part of benefit rhereour. Even as in eating of meats we aske not where or how it was gor, but fall to it; and in the Shambles, the Apoflïe willeth not to enquire whe- ther it had been facrificed to the Moll or no, but being 'good meat, and fir to be eaten, without any more adoe to buy it, Thus Nathanael the good lf- raelite, did not fo Eland upon, or flick at Nazareth , but that bee would goe and try what our Saviour was. And though the Philippick',Preachers pre ched of envie and vaine- glory, yet for the matter roundly, their corrupt manner, what was that to Paul.' that Chrift was truly preached, he therein re- joyced,and would rejoyce. It is not then fincerities palate, not to relifh good meat, and well cooked, becaufe we relifh not the Cook. Thus I have fhewed both the meanes to difcover, and notes to try our falte hearts by.And of the third illuflraticn of the deceitfulneffe of the heart, name- ly by the unfearchablenel a thereof, fo much. CHAP.
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