The deceit fidie fe of Mans heart. 367 v1ad frame hisminde towards thee. This Counfell- taking.with God in praier,is the only remedy again ft the deceitfulneffe of our hearts, for the prelerving and eftablifhing of all good thoughts and delires. 4; The decei:fulneffe of our hearts muff caule us daily ro keep an audit in our own confcience, ever and anon calling them to their accounts. A trufl:y fervant,an Ekazer,we will let go on,and reckon but feldome with him : but a Gehezi, one that is but of ílipptry fidelity, had need be reckoned with every day. The miserable experience then which we have had of thefallènefsof chefe hearts,fo often deceiving us, muff make us to be very ftrait &. severe in exami- ning of them. Sodotnon not obfcurely intimates this to be the caule of our hearts deceitfulnes,that we do not take this paines ofa ftri& triall:Every maws wages are pure in his own eyes: but the Lord trieth the hearts, and fo fees their fecret deceit , which we perceive not,becaufe we try not.Let us neither therefore let reckonings run on, but every day let us make all e- ven let us chaffile ourfelves every morning,examine our felves every evening, even in the Rill fi lence of the night) as wee.lie waking on our beds. In the matter of disburlement of money, for the repairing of theTemple,hfiah gave charge that no reckoning íhould bee made with them into whole hands the money was delivered : for ( faith bee) they:deale faithfully. Indeed, ifour hearts dealt faithfully with us, we allo might fpare this labour of daily countf- caffing : But becaufè both the word of God,and our own experience have Efficiently dilcovered their unfaithfulneffe 5 therefore we contrarily muff fay, Let IV. Vie, for Brait exami- nation of our hearts. Pro.zi. r. a Kings zz.7.
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