T'be deceit fislne(le of Maxi heart.. f 383 not that wee have caft out Divels, healed the tick, cleanfed the lepers,by the thunder ofmy preaching caufed Saran to fall down from heaven like light- ning, (no, none of ail e hefe were his comfort:) but that infrmplicity,atodgodl pureneA we have had our cotaverfetiarl its the zrorld. Hence it was that the Apoftles when they returned to Chriftrejoycing in their viìory over the Divel were checked, and bid den to rejoyce not in any ether thing, than in that which every fincere Chriftian, though never fo tneane and contemptible, may rejoyce in as well as they, namely, that their names were written in heaven. 6 The fpeciall hatred andantipathie that is in God againft decLitfulneffe, should be a ftrong mo- tile unto finceritie. There can be no union betwixt God and the hypocrite, in regard of the great dii fimilitudeofdifppftìons. God is Engle 5 and bee is do uble: having a heart and and a heart,and there- fore cannot be as David, a man according to Gods heart. The hypocrite is crooked ; and God is straight :_ And how will you, compaa together, and make even ftraigl:t and crooked ? How can here bee friendfhip betwixt them that are every way of contrary difpoficions ? But where there is likeneffe of manners, there eafily will hear t s be glu- ed and riveted together. Now the upright in heart are according to Gods own heart, and there- fore as solonora fay s, they are his delight. The Lord Co loveth the truth in the inward parts, that hee himfeife with his own mouth will commend, yea, and admire the true ifraelite;,l eholda txlre Ifraeiite, fain Aug.inPJ 3o, Non voluit dpoftoies gap- dere exeo gaed proprium babe - bant, fed ex co quad cum cete- ris falutem te- nebant. Inde voluit gaudere Apoßolos uncle gaudes & ara, .ÿuomodo.di ((Baum lignum ft difponas in pa - vimento quail non coloratur, non compagina.! tur nec adjun.' g turfed fem¡er agi atar Ú nu- tat, net quia inaqua!e eel ubi poli ßi,redquia d.;.ortum e(t qu d pofuiti.iu tor tU'um quoin din diftortum non pate') coUi.; neari retlitudi -t ni Dei, & non pste(t in'illo, colloca-i, ut &ereat e4,.FJ fiat rebi:am. Aug.inPfal.yr,' P.o, II. 10áí,s4.47.
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