OF MANS therebeany worke ofhis to be done, he will do it witliJH his might: For tiutis the difpoiidon ofa mans minde, when once he is able to fay, Pfalm:7:.;4~ as Dttvid[ayth, P.(alme72·4· One thing httvt 1 . deftredofthe Lord, andt!Mt wi!IJ fee!u, tefee the . Uittutie ofthe Lord, to live in his Temple, &c. 0 ne thing have I deftred, and that will I feeke with all diligence: When aman de fires . but one thing, his minde will be exceeding in~ ! tentuponir; And therefore if you would finde 1 ou·t now what is a proper effect of finceritie, youlhall nndethis alway to be in thofe, whofe hearts are upright with God; that they give themfelues up to .his Jervice; I fay, theygive Intention ina mansownaf. faires, and re· milfendle in Godsa figne of impurltie.· themfelues uptodoit with-all diligence:There– fore aman that faith thus, I hope my heart is upright with God, and yet you fee him excee– ding bufte withother things, the workeo(God he doth butover1y,heflubbers it over, he doth it negligently,as a fervant that doth eye..fervice; but for bufinelfes -of his owne, he is exceeding · intent upon them, he is overwhelmed with them, in following pleafures, and divers lufrs; his rninde isexceeding much taken up in things ofthat kinde-; I fay, he doth but diffemble, when he f:1ith hehath prepared his whole heart to feeke the Lord, that he walkes before him pertectly, it cannot be: a man whofe heart is upright, bath this difpofrtion in him, that l1is . fpeeches,..his t11oughts and his actions are .fl:ili H1o!metrefthe ' bufied about thinbas that belong to the Kmg- · eement o an l . . 1 . uprightman. dome of God, . ~1olm.effe 1s the element he 1~es m ·------------------~----------~~--~--
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