36s The deceit fìclxeffe of Mans'eart. V Vie, for ex- hortation to finceriry. jfal, 51. Let there be daily,yea,hourely reckonirgskept with our hearts, fir they deate exceeding u :faithfully. The Mufitian , becaufe his inflrument qu".ckely rowes out of rune,even whiles he is pla' ing,there- Fore even th °n he will be tuning ofir, is loon as he ;pies the leaft jarring in any of the fliings : So mull we intermixe the correction and amendment ofour hearts, (which is done by flri;`l examination) toge- her with their ufe ar.d emp'oymcnt , and nor bee like the foolifh mower, that álïll mower, and never whets his Sythe. Laflly fince all our hearts naturally are fo full fraught with guile, being fo immeafurably and un- ;earchably deceitfull , as here the P: ophet teach- It muff caufe us in the hearty bewaylir g and confefling of this corruption, to flrive for the coca Crary grace. We, that by the mercy of God pro- tetre religion more fincerely,are ready to think our Pelves wronged, if we be called hypocrites and de- ceitfull r plc. No, let us make ufe of fuch imputa- tions and profit by the raylings of our enímies : 1-or they lay no other imputation onus, then here God himfelfe doth, laying, The heart ofman, without ex- ception of any,i deceitfull. So that the heart., even of the moll holy and regenerate , is 1E11 in part de- ceitful], as in part it is wicked. Let us not then deny chat in cur felves,which the God of truth bath laide upon us : but let us rather fearch out this privie and dole hypocrite of our hearts ; and having found it, purge them of it:Praying with rhePropher,Renerra rigl t fpirit in me,labouring for that fame truth in the award parts which God fo loveth, that fo wee may with
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