A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

there we see our own heart ⟨p. 239⟩unbowell'd, and there we can discern what our selves are at the cost of other mens Sins, What says the Wise man, in Prov. 27, 19? As in water face answereth unto face, so doth the heart of a man to a man. It was the proud Pharisee's boast, Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, Extortioners, Unjust, Adulterers, or a this Publican; as it is in Luke 18. Yes, believe it, you, and I, and all, yea, the best of us all, we are even as others are; the vilest Sinners are the truest Glasses to represent to our view what our Hearts are; their wickedness gives in a true Inventory of what lies locked up in our Breasts; there we have the same Vipers knotting and sprawling within, that crawl forth in others Lives; there is Rancour, and Malice, and Hatred, and Slaughters and Adulteries, and the whole Spawn of all those black Sins that have made Men either infamous in Story, or mighty in Torment, and that we have not yet out-sinned all the Copies that ever were set us, that we have not yet discovered some new unknown wickedness to the World, is not because our inclination to Sin, or our stock of Corruption fails us; but because God's Grace ⟨p. 240⟩either preventing or renewing, fails not. Where then is the Christian that hath not cause to go mourning to his Grave? can you blame him to see him sad and disconsolate, when he hath no less Reason for it, than a Heart brim-full of Sin? Certainly that Man neither loves God, nor his own Soul, that can hear that there is in him such a violent propension to injure the one, and ruin the other, without exclaiming with the Prophet, Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a Man of an unclean heart, and of polluted Lips. It is but just, yea, it is all the reason in the World, that while our hearts continue to be fountains of Sin, our heads should continue to be fountains of Tears.

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