tbc deceitftdrteffe ®f Mani heart. 371 nir,g zeale , bis forward alactity, &c. and loe their place cannot be found. The body when the foule is once gone, may not long fray above ground;it mutt needs he buried : So the hypocrites graces wanting fincerity, which is the very foul and life of all grace, they are but a flunking carrion, and what fhould an odious and ugly loathforne carkaffe doe, but bee thrown into the pit ?Standeth it us not then in hand to Icak to our felves, that we be upright in heart, if we would enjoy the fweet comfort of our final per - ferverance ?For,as excellently Bradford,The way of ra spill. Chrift is the ftraight way,and fo ftraight,that as few can finde ir,and few walke in it fonone can halt in it, but mutt needs goe upright. For as the ftraightneffe wil fuller no reeling to this fide or that fide:fo ifany man halt, he is like to fall off the bridge into the pit of eternal! deftruaion. An unfound horfe that bath Tome fecret fault, may carry as good a Phew as the foundeft, and at the firft for a mile or two will tra- vel] as frefhly and chearefully as any , but at length he tires and gives over. So is it with an unfound and deceitfull Chriftian : Notwithftanding all his faire beginnings , and hopefull entrances, yet he conti- nues not. Let an Apple feeme never fo beautifull,if it be rotten atcore,it will quickly putrifie.The houle built on the fand cannot ftand alwaies : If a tempe down it goes, it fats, and the fall thereof is great, like that of Jerufalem,which,though it were Mattt,. 7.: a moft glorious and goodly City , yet it was wholy ruined, and levelled with the ground,not a f}one left Luke.T9.44. upon a flea. So great is the fall ofthefe Tandy Chri- ftians, that it even aftonitheth them that knew them B b 2 before
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