A child of light walking in darknessA childe of light vvalking in darknesse

3. By such observations he may know a mans bosom sins.¹ So he knew and observed Judas bosom sin, to be covetousness, and accordingly sorted his temptation to it.

3. By such observations he may know a mans bosome sinnes.¹ So he knew and observed Iudas bosome sin, to be covetousnesse, and accordingly sorted his temptation to it.

1. 1And 3. a mans bosom sin.And 3. a mans bosome sin.

5. By what he sees outwardly of our actions,¹ he can many ways guess at inward corruption, which are the principles of them. He hath all the ways which a wise discerning man ⟨p. 91⟩hath, (who should always watch a man, and set himself to study a man, and that hath opportunity to suggest when he pleaseth, on purpose for trial and discovery) all the ways such a man hath to know the heart, satan hath. And that which Solomon says of a wise man, that though the heart of man be deep, ²yet a man of understanding will fetch it out, ³holds true of satan much more. As 1. by comparing one action with another,§1 one speech with another: so wise men guess at mens ends in things, and their respects that move them. 2. By gestures. By a cast of a mans §2countenance and behaviour, men are often discerned; by the like may satan see into us. Thus Joab discerned Davids pride in his command for numbering the people, so as it was loathsome in his eyes. And if Joab discerned this by the outward carriage of the matter, how much more might satan that put in the motives to persuade him to it? The Jesuits bid those of their followers who are to deal with men, when they talk with any, whose minds they would discern, still to observe their eye, to see what alterations are in their countenances, as through which the mind is transparent; now satan, he is a good Physiognomist, and he eyes a man. 3. Further