· Eeatt.;.Treafore~ ~~1 : ~. · lay up , experience~of the c~:eachery of · the hearc, read over Mr. DJ!(_es Treatife of . the deceitfuloefs of 1 the heart, and com~re " your own experiences with that book: Buti · ·· · efpechlly reJtl and Uudy wel this muldfari~ ous boc'k of a bafe heart , confider and re.... ·· member thofe wayes of guile and guilr, that have cofi thy foul fo ,dear: as·thws, in fiich a ., duty my heart gave me the· flip; in (uch a: tempration my heart led ~way my hand or· Joot; and cau[ed rny flefu to fin , in fuch ari· (·- .. , . enjoyment my perfidious heart was fl:olled .. ' . away, in (uch an affliction I baddifcontented ·.. · rifings of hearr,l nd my tumultuous quartel- · ._., fome (pirit made !l)e to fpeak uoadvi!edly with my lips, ·I'le never trufl: this deceitful pean lg.1in; who but a fool \Vil venture his· whole dlate wich a known Thief? what . w~fe man wil rru£t a knowrfJ~1gler? Solomon ._ . ~ faHb, Ele that trufletbrJn hu tirt1n heart P.s .afool: Pro.,.R~1~ and I fual be the moft errant fool that breath· , eth, if after {o tnany cheatitig tricks, I fhould confide in this l'erfidious Traitor. Ah Chri..; fl:ian, I appeal to thine own experien~e, how' inldy a woful infiance haft thou had of the .' h~arts de;ceitfulnefs? le ~s apt ro deceive, arid • -as eafte t'o be deceived, and (elf-deceit, is the , ·tnoG: dangen;ms: the heart, finte the fat, is naruraJly o'f a vaftous, fubtiles and - fic~le te~per, and is fiil madeworfeandwotfe, by tHe.deceitfulnefs of fin, Heb. 3~ t;. whjch is as 1c were wovert and t\t'ifted in the frame and confiitution thereof~ and (o thoCe twd (heats confpire t~ undo (he popr foqi: and . N. - were ,_ •
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