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9 This reproves those that express more violence outwardly then they have inwardly.

9 This reproves those that expresse more violence outwardly then they have inwardly.

There are many men that will hear Sermons on Lords days, & Lectures on week-days, speak well of religion, and of the ways and people of God, but if you look to them in their families, and in their closets, you shall find them of another temper. These men are like pepper, hot in the mouth, but ⟨p. 24⟩cold in the stomach. I may resemble such to a pot boiling over the fire, hot at the top, cold at the bottom. So some men are boiling hot in the mouth, but their hearts are cold and frozen. As it is with men sick of a fever, the face and hands and other external parts of the body burn, when the heart shakes and quivers with cold.

There are many men that wil hear Sermons on Lords dayes, & Lectures on week-dayes, speak well of religion, and of the wayes and people of God, but if you look to them in their families, and in their closets, you shall finde them of another temper. These men are like pepper, hot in the mouth, but ⟨p. 24⟩cold in the stomack. I may resemble such to a pot boiling over the fire, hot at the top, cold at the bottome. So some men are boiling hot in the mouth, but their hearts are cold and frozen. As it is with men sick of a feaver, the face and hands and other externall parts of the body burn, when the heart shakes and quivers with cold.