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reatine
of
Gon,
f
cience.
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Who
can
know
it
?
That
is,
Who
elfe can
know
it
but
a
man An/iv.
himfelf?
None
under
God
can
know the
heart
of
man
buta
mans
own
conscience,
the fpirit of man
that
is
in
him. I con
-
fefCe
a
man
may
be
ignorant
of
force fecret and
particular
de
-.
ceit
in his
heart; but who knoweth
not
the
general
ftanding
of
his
own
heart
?
or
may
know the chief bent
of
his
own
foul.
David
in
a
particular
deceit
was
ignorant
:
I
fail
in
my
prcfbe-
Pfal.3.o.
6
rity,I
'hall
never
be
moved,
never diftruft
God
more,
never
be
difquieted
in
my
mind
more.
He
was
deceived
in
that particu.
lar;
but
he
knew very
well the general
and chief
bent
of
his
heart, that
it
was
truly
fet
upon
God
and
upon
holinefre.
2.
It
is
true, many
men
take
it that
their
hearts
are
fet upon
God
when they are
not
; but
what
is
the reafon
?
Not
becaufe
they
do
not or
may
not
know the
contrary, that
they
love
the
world molt
:
but
becaufe
they
will
not
know it, they
are un-
w king
to
believe
it, they
are
loth
to
have any
bad conceit
of
tl!emfelves
.
So
that
when
Jeremy faith,
The
heart
is
deceit-
full
above
all things
:
who
can
know
it?
his
meaning
is,
What
carnall
man can
abide
to
know the
wort}
of
himfelf
?
3.
It
is
not
becaufe
they
know
it
not,
but becaufe they will
not
heare
the
teftimony ofconfcience
:
but
when it
telleth
them truly
how
the
cafe
is
with
them
,
they gather
all
the
rotten
and broken
pieces
of
arguments
together
to
ffop the mouth
of
conscience,
and
to
perfwade
themflves
to
think
well
of
themfelves, 4.Men
feem
not to
know their own hearts
,
not
becaufe
they
do
not
know what
they
are,
but
becaufe
they
are
ignorant of
Gods
Law
whereby
they
fhould judge
of
themlelves. They
know
their hearts
are
fe
t
on
the
world,
and
that
the bent and
frame
of
their affecions
are placed on
earthly
things
:
but they
hope
an
underaffec`Iion
to
God
will
be
accepted,to
love
God
in
the
fecond place will
ferve
the turn. They
know
they
are
carnali;
but they
hope
fuch
carnality
may
be
in
a
man
and yet
he be
right.
Yea,
but
a
mans
heart
may
fay
on the contrary
fide,
that
he ObjeE.
2.
loveth the world more then
he
loveth
God
when
he
Both
not:
how then
doth
conscience bear
right
witnefie
?
I
anfwer,
E
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