the Epifik to ths Galatians. Chap.6. 1_511 who cotfinde it outFor who can found the depth °filar deceit of hisowne heart ? or who knows theinfinite windings and tur- nings which arc in this intricate Labyrinth ? Now this cool- meth to paffe, partly by reafon of original! corruption , which the Apotile faith isdeceitful!, Hebr.3.13. TAk,e, beetle left anyof ou be hardened through the deceitfulnes of-jinni.: partly,by reafon oflongeuflome in fume, whereby the heart is inured to deceit, Pfal.3 2. 2. 731effed is the onan,--in whole fpirit there is 310 guile. For from this double ground it commeth to paffe, that men 10 are fowittic in defrauding the Mu-Utters of their due , in cut- ting them fhort of their alfowance , in embezcling and purloi ning from them what they can : and fo ingenious in inuenting probable rearons, and plaufible arguments,. todeceitae them- (clues withal, in accounting all to be gained that is thus got- 5 ten. This teacheth firfl of all , to pray inflantly that God would open our eyes that we may fee our hidden corruptions, and that he would annoint themwith the eye-falueofhis fpi- rit, that we may clearely tee, and rightlydifcerne ofthings that differ, confidering that fmne cloth often-apparell it felfc with 20 the cloake ofvenue. Secondly, we are to fulpe6t our (clues of our fccret fumes , and to aggrauate our knowne firmes by all eircumftances., tieing, we may fo cafilydeceiue ounfelues, in Battering our fillies to be clearc ofthis or that finne : or at leaf} not to be fogricuous (inners as in truth we are. Thirdly, that 25 it is the dune ofthe Minitterto.warne the people to take heed that they benot deceined , asPatal cloth , Eph. 5.6. Let no roan. &crimepm with vaine words : for , for-fidcb things comma/Jibe wrath e9fg9dvpon thechildren ofdifobedience. Againedience I gather, , that in the prime oftheChurchill o the A poftics-claies, when the Church of the New Teflament was but in founding,theniiniflerie was in contempt: and(as it may appeare out of other places)the miniffers were not oriel), negleeted,or contenmcd,but reuiled,perfccuted,accounted as the filth of the world;and the of skotaringofall thing's; 2. Con 35: 4.13.0tvvhere they were better intreated , they Were but a-bu. fed,fcorncd,reputcd brain. fickefellowes , as the Prophet was, 2Xing.9.11..and Pau1,M1.26.24. Thisbath beetle, and is the account. which the world maketh of the minifiers.-of God, whichmull be fo fane from difcouraging vs,that iffhould mi rifler rathermatter oftoyvoto vs , in thatwc are conformable
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