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This were the way indeed to get a sound heart: and this is a good argument of a sound hart, when the sins of our own souls do more vex us, then all the injuries that men have done, or can do against us, and therefore we are ever busy in searching out the hidden corruptions that lye lurking within our souls, that so our foundation may remain still unmoveable: for this is the difference betwixt an earthly house and a spiritual, that the one needeth but once to have a sure foundation laid, but the other requireth daily looking too. There is some one corruption or other that must be cast forth: so that Christians are searching and digging builders: who albeit they seem to themselves to be very blind, yet they get the greatest measure of knowledge: and though they be very dead in their own feeling, yet they carry away the life of God and the life of grace.

This were the way indeed to get a sound heart: and this is a good argument of a sound hart, when the sinnes of our owne soules doe more vexe vs, then all the iniuries that men haue done, or can do against vs, and therefore we are euer busie in searching out the hidden corruptions that lye lurking within our soules, that so our foundation may remaine still vnmoueable: for this is the difference betwixt an earthly house and a spirituall, that the one needeth but once to haue a sure foundation laid, but the other requireth daily looking too. There is some one corruption or other that must be cast forth: so that Christians are searching and digging builders: who albeit they seeme to themselues to bee very blind, yet they get the greatest measure of knowledge: and though they be very dead in their owne feeling, yet they carrie away the life of God and the life of grace.

Verse 47. [Whosoever heareth my words and doth the same, &c. is like a man that built an house, and digged deep, or (as it is in Matthew) is like a wise builder] who before he be at any cost will be sure of a good foundation, or else all his labour is lost. Now the foundation of a Christian is his practise, whence ariseth this point: that

Verse 47. [Whosoeuer heareth my words and doth the same, &c. is like a man that built an house, and digged deepe, or (as it is in Matthew) is like a wise builder] who before he be at any cost wil be sure of a good foundation, or else all his labour is lost. Now the foundation of a Christian is his practise, whence ariseth this point: that