Four books on the eleventh of Matthew

that that is in their hearts is a deadness of spirit, there is a mixture, there is some profaneness of heart, though they would have somewhat of religion too, of that which is the hypocrisy not the power of religion, there is hypocrisy and profaneness, those are the too extremes, he will not be a profane man in the grossness of it, nor will he be strict in the ways of God in the exactness of them, but mix them both, he will not be only profane, and only have a show in religion, but he will retain some profaneness of heart; that is, though he will not be drunk & profane, yet he will retain an inward profaneness of heart, that is, when he comes to perform holy duties, he counts them but as common things, the blood of Jesus Christ, he counts it as a common thing and so he hath a profaneness of heart when he comes to perform holy duties, and yet he will not be profane neither, and so he will have a mixture of both, and this makes up a civil man, and yet the civil man will cry out for both he thinks he is not an hypocrite, and he thinks he is not profane, but he is a middle man, a mixture of a profane person and a strict person, he is between both: But now a gracious heart equally opposeth profaneness and hypocrisy, so that the right moderation, is such a moderation as is a middle between two evils and partakes of none, the ease of a carnal heart lies in his moderation of holy duties, and ⟨p. 667⟩therefore those duties that would lift up the heart high, those are troublesome unto him. As now, you shall find in some beasts, a horse that is a jade and tired, will go pretty well in some smooth way, but if he come to the least rising of a hill, Oh, how hard is it for such a beast to draw? and how ready is he to stand still? perhaps, when the way is down hill he will draw, but at no rising or up-hill, now it is otherwise with a horse of mettle, you shall find no difference between one way & another, nay, he will go better up-hill then down hill: So it is with Carnal hearts perhaps in some kind of things that may be suitable to them, and are smooth they may go apace, but in that that raiseth his spirit, that that is uphill, Oh, that is difficult, but now a Godly heart, is lively, and spiritual, and joyful, and finds most quiet and ease when he riseth highest.

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