The deceitfulneffe of Mans heart. O 379 little, as the Oile in the Crufe,aïid the NleaJe in the Barrell of the sareptanWidow ; yet they have fuch a fpring, that as thee held out in the Famine, when many of better elate, in all likelihood perifhed ; fo when the proud Hypocrite, that had ten talents, is broken, and hath brought his ten talents to none, yet the humble fincere Chriftian , that had but tw o talents continues Rill , and bath brought his two to foure, his five talents to ten. And what is the rea- fon of this encreafe ì Even his finceritle. Becaufe Luke19.I7. thou haft been faithfull, faith our Saviour , in a little, t will make thee ruler over much. Surely David,as all other Chriflians, had no great flock to begin wi-h all : for the4ingdonae ofheaven,in the firft beginning, is but as a graine of Níuflard -feed: yet in fhort ípace M1tth ,;, of time , that this little faithfully employed, and wifely husbanded , brought fo admirable an en creafe,that the poor Prentife got before the richefl: Merchants in this kinde, even the Teachers them felves, and the grave Sages , and ancient Fathers 9 chat had ofa long rime known him thst wai from the tot,nsaç.. beginning, were of his old acquaintance, and were in Clarif? long before him. I , the other day a poore Rom'16. 7. Prt 1 ,99. puny, a ire f a man , have now got more underftanding 100. than aa my Teachers for all their great reading , yea, then ag my eintient t, for all their long experience. But how might this come ro pa tre?Becaufè kept t h." pfai.".54. nam elyt he grace to remember the Name of God in the night,to make his flatutes my fongs in the houfe of my pilgrimage, &c,becaufe 41)t thypreeepts. 5 Sincerity as it leffensfomething our evill, Co it am-
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