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Oh, consider this point, which may make thee pull thine hair from thine head, […] thy clothes to sackcloth, and run up and down with amazement and paleness of thy face, and horror in thy conscience, and tears in thine eyes. What though thy life be smooth what though thy outside, thy sepulchre be painted; Oh thou art full of rottenness of sin within. Guilty not before men as the sins of thy life make thee, but before God of all the sins that swarm and roar in the whole world at this day, for God looks […] heart; guilty thou art therefore of heart-whoredom, heart-sodomy▪ heart-blasphemy, heart-drunkenness, heart-buggery, heart-oppression, heart-idolatry, & these are the sins that terribly provoke the ⟨p. 43⟩wrath of Almighty G•d against▪ thee, Isai. 56 17. For the iniquities of his covetousness (saith our Translation) I smote him: but the Hebrew endteth it better, for the iniquity of his conscience (which is the sin of the heart & nature (I smote him. As • King is angry, and musters up his arm•e against rebels, not only who bringeth his soldiers out to sight, but who keepeth soldiers in their trenches ready for to fight. These sins of thine heart are already armed to fight against God, at the watchword of all-arm of any temptation. Nay, I dare affirm, and will prove it, that these sins provoke God to anger, and are as bad, if not worse, then the sins of thy life.

Oh, consider this point, which may make thee pul thine hair from thine head, 〈…〉 thy cloathes to sackcloath, and run up and down with amazement and palenesse of thy face, and horror in thy conscience, and tears in thine eyes. What though thy life be smooth what though thy outside, thy sepulchre be paint•d; Oh thou art full of rottennesse of sin within. Guilty not before men as the sins of thy life make thee, but before God of all the sins that swarm and roar in the whole world at this day, for God looks 〈…〉 heart; guilty thou art therefore of heart-whoredom, heart-sodomy▪ heart-blasphemy, heart-drunkennesse, heart-buggery, heart-oppression, heart-idolatry, & these are the sins that terribly provoke the