The deceit fìslne0 of Mans heart. ;EI tech the pureft tnecals , and turnech very gold , yea precious (tones into rutty iron; Contrarily, finceri- ty in excellent kinde of Alcbyrìrie turnerh iron in- to gold, and as once our Saviour, water into wine. Hypocrifie caufech the molt glorious works of al riles, prayer, preaching, with great indignation ro be rejefed: Sincerity the poocett works,ol keeping {hep, fweeping the houfe, &c. wich great favour to bee accepted. Sincerity then is all in all. A fin cere Rabb , is better than an unfound ludas. As in the nanuall body, to ufe S. Aufiins comparifon, the cafe of the found finger is fafer than of the blindi!h eye. The finger indeed is but a little -fmall thing, and cannot doe Inch fervice as the eye, it is not of that admirable nimbleneffe and quicknefí'e, nor cannot guide and dir, °íìt the whole body , as the eye cloth. And yet it is better to be a finger, and to be found, than ro be an eye, and to be dimme , and darke, ready to fall out of the head. Better in Gods family to be a tairhfull doore keeper, and Co to bee fare to hold our place , than to bee an unfaithfitll Steward,and fo with him in the Gofpel,to be thruft out,and come to the danger of begging. When we come to die, it is not the grevtneffe, or the mul- titude of chofe good works which wee have done but the good difpolicion of an honeft and fincere heart, in the doing of them,that mutt then Rand us in {lead. The Pfalmi{t pronounce them bleffed cha': are upright in their way. He makech no choife of = he way he dorh no fiy:Bleffed are they chit are upright in the way of the Miniftery , or the Magi- ftracie, but (peaking indifferently ofany way allow- i able ratier el in car- port digitus fa nus,quem lippi e-33 oUfluS,állgt- tus exigua gage- dam res eft, acu lus magnifice multum melt , & tamen metius ell digitum ell'e, & fanum eQè quam eculum elle & pertur_ bari, Gppere & excæcari. In Pfal.z3o, Luk. 6.
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