The Sincere Convcrt, make thee, but before God, ofall the fins that M s m- fwirm and roar in the whole World at this fieriy by 2 day, for God looks to the heart. gui t thou art therefore of heart-whoredom, ,heart -lode- my hearteblafp.hemy heart- drnnkenuefs, heart -buggery, heart opprefíion, heart idc- latry ; and therm are the fins that terribly pro - voke the wrathofAlmighty God agairii l'or the iniquity of hiscovetòiy- nets (faith our tranflation) //mote him but the Hebrew renders it better, for the iniq ity of his cone pi1cènce l wch is the fin ofhis heart and nature) I finete him. As a King is angry and nmfters up his Army againfk rebelS,not o l which bring his fouldiers out to fight but who keeps fouldiers in their trenches ready for to fight_, Thefe fins of thine heart are all'ready r ,s r t, armed to fight agai rift Goa the VVatckward or he1r Nrcr 4larrw ofany temptation. Nay, I dare affirm ,Ficn the and will prove it, that thefe fins provoke God fins r the,. to anger, and are as bad, if not tworfe than the Life. fins of thy life : For, t. The fin of thine heart or nature is the caufe, the womb,that contains, breeds,brings forth,fuckles all the litter, all the troop offi:ns that are in thy life; and' thereforegiving life and being to all other , its the greaten fin. 2. Sin is more abundantly in the heart then in the life. An actual fin is but a littlebreach made by the lea offin in thine heart, where all fin,all poyfon is met and mingled together°. Every adnal fin is but as a fired br oken o from the great bottome of fin ,in theheart ; D 3 and
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