The application of redemption

Look at them with respect to OTHERS, cast them into the Balance of Comparison and Consideration, with the evil of others, and thereby the greatness of their evil will more evidently appear: I answer therefore in the second place, The evil of thy words is in some regard, I say, in some regard, worse than the evil of thy heart; though that be the Store-house and Treasury of noisome distempers, and the Ware-house which furnisheth a mans whole course, yet corrupt language ads a deeper dye, and makes those evils of the heart more loathsome: As there is more store of Commodities in the Ware-house, yet the false light of the Shop makes them so much the worse, because it makes them not appear as they are; words darkens much of the Truth that is in the heart, which would make against sin, and covers and collars over that which is evil, that it might not appear to be such, that the heart purposeth and concludes certainly it will have it, because it likes it: yet could a ⟨p. 149⟩man but hear the privy Verdict which knowledge and conscience gives, 1. He should see them consenting to the Truth: 2. Condemning the will of sin. Reason tells the heart, this is the way and the will of God, and you should not reject it; this is your Duty, and Gods Command, you perish for it if you do oppose; here Truth appears as well as distempers. But when the Cause comes to be […] and pleaded outwardly by words, the tongue hides the verdict of knowledge and conscience, suffers not their testimony, or the Truth once to come to light. But the corruption that the heart would have, it pleads for it under the colour and pretence of that which is Lawful and allowable; So much light and knowledge as would discover the sin that is suppressed. The evil that was there suppressed, that is by colour of cunning and false words, varnished over, and pleaded for under pretence of that which is good and Lawful. So that here is a double evil more in our words than in our hearts.

Look at them with respect to OTHERS, cast them into the Ballance of Comparison and Consideration, with the evil of others, and thereby the greatness of their evil wil more evidently appear: I answer therfore in the second place, The evil of thy words is in some regard, I say, in some regard, worse than the evil of thy heart; though that be the Store-house and Treasury of noysom distempers, and the Ware-house which furnisheth a mans whol course, yet corrupt language ads a deeper dye, and makes those evils of the heart more loathsom: As there is more store of Commodities in the Ware-house, yet the false light of the Shop makes them so much the worse, because it makes them not appear as they are; words darkens much of the Truth that is in the heart, which would make against sin, and covers and colers over that which is evil, that it might not appear to be such, that the heart purposeth and concludes certainly it wil have it, because it likes it: yet could a