The way to true happiness in a serious treatise /

Now here you shall have the hypocrite halting. He speaks it may be like an Angel, but he hath a covetous eye, or the gain of unrighteousness in his hand. Or the hand is white, but his heart is full of rottenness, Mat. 13. 27. full of unmortified cares, a very oven of lust, a shop of pride, the seat of malice. It may be with Nebuchadnezzar's Image, he hath a Golden head, a great deal of knowledge: but he hath feet of clay, his affections are worldly, he minds earthly things, and his way and walk are sensual, and carnal, you may trace him in his secret haunts, and his footsteps will be found in some by-paths of sin. The work is throughout with him.

Now here you shall have the hypocrite halting. He speaks it may be like an Angel, but he hath a covetous eye, or the gain of unrighteousness in his hand. Or the hand is white, but his heart is full of rottenness, Mat. 13. 27. full of unmortified cares, a very oven of lust, a shop of pride, the seat of malice. It may be with Nebuchadnezzar's Image, he hath a Golden head, a great deal of knowledge: but he hath feet of clay, his affections are worldly, he minds earthly things, and his way and walk are sensual, and carnal, you may trace him in his secret haunts, and his footsteps will be found in some by-paths of sin. The work is thorowout with him.

3. Throughout the motives, or the life, and practice. The new man takes a new course, Eph. 2. 2, 3. His Conversation is in Heaven, Phil. 3. 20. No sooner doth Christ call by effectual grace, but he strait way becomes a follower of him, Mat. 4. 20. When God hath given the new heart and writ his law in his mind, he forthwith walks in his statutes and keeps his judgments,