Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

• ------------~--~--------·*~---------- :1 . V p R I G H T N E s. l /complaines, though they did :etur~~ and );;~_ 1\ . [tifie~ Fall:, and drd feeke h1m very devoutly, faith hee, You returne not to the m&jl High, but againft mee haueyou rebelled. The meaning of both places is this; They haue not fought me with their wholeheart, but feynedly; theword Feyn(dly, fbewes, that by whole heart:) .he meanes there, a true heart: So that, as you wouldfudge now ofan unfound-heartedfriend, you fay,he is not perfect, he is not found,"he is nottrue, when his adions -carrya iliewand ap– pearance ofloue, and his .heart do.rh not anfwer it; . There is a diffonancy betweene the appea– rance he makes, and his heart:- His heart is knowne by this, he loues not theperfonofhis · friend; He may obferue him, for fome other refpec1s, but his perfon he cloth nor inwardly refpecr: So, ifa -man would know whether his h€art_be per.fett with God, let him confider · whether he do not as falfe-hearrcd men are · wont ro do, that ob{erueother Il1Cn out of re– fpec:ts, becaufe they fee tho.fe pardeshaue po. _ ·wer todo them g.ood or hurt, ther~forc they . are diligent to obfetue them,(as the Apofile faith, They haue the perfonr of men in admira– tion, becatJ[e ofadvantage: That is, they haue . them in admiration, they arevery obfequious tothe'm, ready i:o do them. offices of friend~ 1l1ip; But it is for their ·owne advantage, not becmfe they loue their f.dends, they are not fretted to tlreir perfons. Corirrarie t<;l that is finglenelfe of heart, when w.e loue not X 3 in Whole heart, ~ whatitis.

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