The beatitudes

3. Men that are sick, conceit themselves well, through self-love. He that loves another, will not credit any evil report of him. Men are [Greek or Hebrew], self-lovers, 2 Tim, 3.2. Every man is a Dove in his own eye, therefore doth not suspect himself of any disease; he will rather question the Scriptures verity, than his own malady.

3. Men that are sick, conceit themselves well, through self-love. He that loves another, will not credit any evil report of him. Men are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, self-lovers, 2 Tim, 3.2. Every man is a Dove in his own eye, therefore doth not suspect himself of any disease; he will rather question the Scriptures verity, than his own malady.

4. Self-deceit,and the deceit of the heart, appears in two things.

1. In hiding the disease; the heart hides sin as Rachel did her fathers images, Gen. 31.34. Hasael did not think that he was so sick as he was; he could not imagine that so much wickedness (like a disease) should lie lurking in him, 2 Kings 8.13. Is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing? As the Viper hath his teeth hid in his gums, so that if one should look into his mouth he would think it an harmless creature. So though there be much corruption in the heart, yet the heart hides it, and draws a veil over that it be not seen.

1. In hiding the disease; the heart hides sin as Rachel did her fathers images,