Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

116 · Bu~myheanwaketh, \ Si 1\ .IIII. he would doe ill, and not good, ifit were i~hls , · choice. The good that he doth is for by-ends, I for correfpondence,or dependance upon others, l. or conformity with the times, to cover his de,- i £ignes under formality of Religion, that h<J may' ! not be knowneourwardly; · as he is inwardly, an i Atheift, and an Hypocrite. So he bath falfe ; aymes, his heart is not direded to a righe marke; But itisotherwife with Godschilde,\vhatfoever good he doth,it is in his heart firft: Whatfoever 1 ill 8e abfiaines from, he cloth it from his heart:J 1 ju~ging it to ~e naug~t;there_fore ~e hates it, and I w1ll not doe lt.Here ts a mame difference of the i Church from all other~, It wakes in the heart, ·! though the outward man fleeps: Butother mens I hearts lleep,when they wake,as you know fome ~ 1 men will walke and doe many things in their flee~. An Hypocrite is {uchakind of man, he 1 .walks and goes upand downe, but his heart is : a£leep,he knowes not what he doth,norcloth he l the thing out of judgement, or love, but as one · afleep(as it were) he bath no inward affedionnq- · to the things he doth. A Chrifiian is the contra– ry,his heanis awake,when he is afleep. Another difference from the words you may! have thus. AChriftianby thepowerofGods Spirit in him, ·is fenfible ofthe contrarieties in him, complaines, and is aihamed for the fame; \. I! but an Hypocrite is not fo, he is not fentible of \ l his fleepindfe;lfltep(faith the Church) fo much ' , 3S the Church faith ihe flept, Somuch pJe didnot jleep ; for a man that is afleep, cannot fay. he is . - a ' a eep, \

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