I be .í'oule.r eft;ftuafdcalling to Chrift. 571 --a---_, brethren thinke of there things, it is good to Beare ofthis now, and better it is to know them now, than to know themwhen it is too late : now you have your houfes, and beds, and pleafures, to comfort you,but youhavean unfaithfull heart, goe thy wayes poore wretch, thou haft enough, thouhaft that about thee that will fink thy heart forever. Oh, let this be written upon the palmes ofyour hands, and graven upon the teftures of thy bed, and fay this is a goodly houle, and I have goodly riches, but I have an unfaithfull heart too: labour ro be afFecîed with this for the Lords fakes you know what Efau faid prophane- ly, when beewas like to die, What, mybirth right to me, if1 die forhunger z Gen. 2 5. 3a. I tellyou it will be as gall and worrnewood toyou ; when the drunkard is in his cups, and the adulterer in his dalliances, you may fay 1 have this and that, but what availes thetawhen I have an unbelee- ving wretched heart about me, I carry mybane, and that which will be my breake- necke. Laflly,when you begin to fee force Chine, bale, and vile,andodious,in the account of theworld, and force times in your owne account, then thinke thuswith your ft Ives, and fay, doe I fee a bafenefl'e in this and that finne ? what then {hall I thinkeofmyunbeleefe, which is thebreeder of all thefe ? could I fee mineowne bale heart, it is the mother andbreeder of all thefe fumes: thou art loth to be feenedrunke in the ffreer, becaufe the boyes would how at thee, and thou art a, feard ofmurder or theft, becaufe thouwouldff not 3
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