The deceitfulneffeofMani heart. /Manias and saphira,a paire of noble hypocrites,are laid co tempt Godin their hypocrifie,that is,to make triall of him' whether he were prefent every where or no,and fo knowing all things were able to reveale their hypocrite. And for the fame caule did Peter cell them, that they yed not to men, but to the Holy Ghofi; becaufe they thought they were out of Gods nearing, and onely Peter, and they with him, heard them. Therefore the Church in the Flalmes thew - eth how they were kept in their finceri*_y,from dea- ling fal fly in their covenant with God; becaufe they remembred that God would learch ir, asbeing the Cearther of the heart. And S. Paul notably joynes chele two together, We mare not merchandife of the Word ofGod;we play not the Huckfers with it : bust as of fincerithas of God, in thefight of God (peak tree in Christ. it is impoffible for a man to Beak as in Gods pretence, and not to (peak fincerely. A lecond meanes is, diligently ro review all our works of obedience,as Once God did his of crea ion, and : o obf,_rve the peace and comfort ofconfcience which we find :when we doe good things with good hearts , as on the contrary the trouble and di(quiet ofminde when we dootherwife. And withal! when we take our (elves thus tardy , in a holy indignation to rake revenge of our (elves, judging and condem- ning our (elves before the Lord. The very thinking of the after-reckonings we muff comae to, when we have done our work, will make us take heed how we do it : For who h there that uleth for all hisa i- ons,at the dayes end,to call hitnfelfe to a revere exa- mination; as the hard Malter doch his lervants , that mutt 3SZ As s, 9. Pfa1. 44, z Cor, I;;
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