rhe deceitfulnejfeof Mans heart. Jefus Chrift. s. Againft the works of morali and ci- vili men; which though beautiful! in the eyes of the world, are yet deformed before God,becaufe they neither flow out of a pure fountaine of a purged heart , nor are referred to juft ends. Let the civili man then know, that when he prefents God with his outward righteoufnelfe, looking for fome re- ward, the dung of his facrifice Thail bee thrown in his face : For God will look into his heart, and finding it unbaptized, he will bid him look into the rock whereout his works were hewen, and into rhe hole w,vhereout they were digged,and then aske him , how that can be clean which bath fo impure an originali ? 3. Againft Hypocrites,that with their leaven , fowre the belt works they doe. If God in judging of good works did not look to the heart, an hypocrite might fpeed as well as the bell Chriftian. But here wee fee the alle&ion and dif- pofition of the heart is all in all with God. Wee indeed judge of the heart by the work: God con- trarily jadgeth of the work by the heart. Wee firft approve the work , and then the workman : But God firft bath refpe& to Habe¡,and then to his facri- fice. T hough the matter of the work he never fo good , yet the corruption of an unfan&ified heart will marre all, and change the nature of it. And as it will be no excufe before God,when the matter of the work is ill,to plead the goodneffe of the heart; Co neither, when the heart is naught, to plead, the the matter of the work is good. Whereof we have notable examples, Ef. 58. in the Jewes urging God with their fatting, and yet Pent away empty ; and in t hole 415 Vcn.4.g.
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