r 62 The Secret Southfayer, or think that they have difovered them here and there ; Behold they arenigh them, they are within them, in their hearts and mouths, though they fee them not. But if ever with all thy learning, andparts, and righteoufne,f f thouhadft had but the light ofGod in thee, it wouldhaveChewed thee the Di- vil and the trueNecromancer , and let thee know thatfor all thy vain boafling, and (welling, and high, andproud conceits of thy felfe, that thou never yet hadft the light of God, and that God never yet anfwered thee by that true UR I M and THUMMIM, where thou oughteft to enowire, but thou haft ft 11 enquired of B A AL and A S HT E RO TH, and of Wizzards andfamiliar Sp rits, and the Counfels of thine own heart; otherwife all thy high conceits had been laid low : but thougoeft out to Sorctrers, and Souohfayers, to NSHDO D or any thing , and confulteft with them, and they tell thee ofathoufn>dDtvi1., but themfdves; and theywill tell thee thou art a wife, agodly, aholy man ; ho more holy ? nay, that thou art a Saint, and all others, e- fpecially fuch and fuch areDevils to thee : this man fees e- very thing naught, and evil, and out oforder, but in his own heart. And what deep and defperate Witchcraft, and Lyes are thefe, whenall thefe are in bimfelf ? But when Chtift conies, then the mind is quite turnd, altered, and changed ; then he fees that H I S heart.is deceitfull above all things then he is amazed to fee thofe unfpeahable deceits that are there, how loathforne and vilehe is, then he wonders that Chrift fhould defcendfo lose as Hell, tobring his f oule out thence : then he fees howall thofe things which before he wouldnever beleeve tobe in him, theyarenow laidopen, and now he fees that Chrift is Hee alone that bath led Captivity Captive. Secondly, this Do&rine notes out unto us the vanity of the minds of all men, while they are anywhere exercifedbut within themfelves, in their own hearts : for all good and evil comes out of the heart, and 'Os that which cometh out thence which defileth the man : And again, a good man out of the good tre-rfureof his heart bringeth good things ; but an evil man out of the evil treaficre of bis heart, bringeth forth evil
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