A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

so truly our hearts, almost upon every slight & trivial Temptation makes that inbred Corruption that lodgeth there, swell, and boil, and run over into abundance of Scum and Filth in our Lives and Conversations, ⟨p. 245⟩Have we not great cause therefore to be jealous and suspicious of our selves, and to keep a watchful eye over all the motions of those Bosom-Traitors, our own hearts. He that trusteth to his own heart, says Solomon, is a Fool, Prov. 28.25. Certainly it were the greatest Folly in the World to trust our Hearts after so frequent experience of their Treachery and Slipperiness; venture them not therefore upon Temptations: What Security have you that your sinful Hearts will not sin; yea, and it may be, betray you into such great Abominations as you cannot now think of without horror; as Men presume upon the Mercy of God to pardon their lesser Sins; so they presume also upon their own strength to preserve them from greater Sins; they say of small Sins, is it not a little one, and our Souls shall live? And they say of great Sins, is it not a great one, and our Souls shall never commit it? Alas, how know you but if once you lay your head in the Lap of a Temptation, these Philistines will be upon you; and you, like Samson, think to go and shake your selves as at other times; but alas, your great strength is departed from you, and ⟨p. 246⟩you left a Prey to the foulest and wors• of Sins whatsoever. And thus now you have seen in David's Prayer, the best Saints proneness to the worst Sins.

so truly our hearts, almost upon every slight & trivial Temptation makes that inbred Corruption that lodgeth there, swell, and boil, and run over into abundance of Scum and Filth in our Lives and Conversations, ⟨p. 245⟩Have we not great cause therefore to be jealous and suspicious of our selves, and to keep a watchful eye over all the motions of those Bosom-Traitors, our own hearts. He that trusteth to his own heart, says Solomon, is a Fool, Prov. 28.25. Certainly it were the greatest Folly in the World to trust our Hearts after so frequent experience of their Treachery and Slipperiness; venture them not therefore upon Temptations: What Security have you that your sinful Hearts will not sin; yea, and it may be, betray you into such great Abominations as you cannot now think of without horrour; as Men presume upon the Mercy of God to pardon their lesser Sins; so they presume also upon their own strength to preserve them from greater Sins; they say of small Sins, is it not a little one, and our Souls shall live? And they say of great Sins, is it not a great one, and our Souls shall never commit it? Alas, how know you but if once you lay your head in the Lap of a Temptation, these Philistines will be upon you; and you, like Samson, think to go and shake your selves as at other times; but alas, your great strength is departed from you, and