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A52803	A chrystal mirrour, or, Christian looking-glass wherein the hearts treason against God and treachery against man, is truely represented, and thoroughly discoursed on and discovered : whereby the soul of man may be dressed up into a comeliness for God ... / published for publick good by Christopher Nesse ...	Ness, Christopher, 1621-1705.	1679 (1679)	Wing N445; ESTC R31077	117,479	262

face answereth to face so the heart of man to man Prov. 27. 19. whole evil is in man and whole man is in evil and by nature there is never a better in whole mankind oh consider was it Davids experience and exercise who cryed Lord incline my heart and unite my heart and quicken my heart c. to bewail a naughty heart was it Solomons and Jeremyes and Pauls and whose not to cry out of a wicked and of a wretched heart And shall you plead exemption from such an epidemical evil the pride of your heart deceives you Obad. v. 3. 10. 2. Ans Answer the second It may be you were never yet led into such temptation as to draw out your corruption when those two meet together then is your danger of a fall Hazael had as good an opinion of himself as you can have of your self when he said to the Prophet Am I a dag that I should do so and so 2 King 8. 13. He had a reverend respect to the Lords Prophet and thought also that no Rational creature could possibly commit such barbarous brutish and inhumane Cruelties such as he judged far fitter to be done by some savage and ravenous beast rather than by any reasonable creature much less by himself but what is thy servant a dog so curst and so cruel as to tear out mens entrails and devour them like a dog Hazael could not imagine himself so notoriously bad and base as he after proved to be He professes himself here a Servant to Gods Prophet crying out as it were Oh be it far from me to commit such Villany as the tearing in pieces young Children like a dog and yet in his practice afterwards he became a bloody Butcher to Gods people Alas no man knows the depths of Satan that lurks in the corners of their own deep hearts Little did Bishop Bonner imagine while he was the Lord Cromwel's Favourite in Henry the 8th's time and promised to further the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures as much as his Predecessor had hinder'd it that ever he should prove such a common Cut-throat and General Slaughter-slave as one in a Letter to him stiled him to all the Bishops of England And as little did this Hazael think it of himself until Honours chang'd his Manners which rarely happens for the better and until Satans temptation and his own unthought-of corruption met together to engender all these unparallell'd Villanies when he came to be King 11. There is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a common Seed-plot of sin in every man there wants nothing but the warmth and watering of the Devil's Temptations to make it bud Ezek. 7.10 Who would ever have suspected such monsters to lurk in such holy bosomes as Surfeiting and Drunkenness c. which Christ cautions his own Disciples of Luke 21. 34. Corruption in the best will have some out-bursts Hence blessed Paul saw cause enough undoubtedly to admonish such a pure soul and mortified a man as young Timothy was being under many Infirmities 1 Tim. 5. 23. That he might flee youthful Lusts 2 Tim. 2. 22. and Exhort the younger women with chastity 1 Tim. 5. 2. Intimating thereby that while he was exhorting them to Chastity some unchast motion might steal upon his own heart at unawares well knowing that the naughty nature in the best of fallen Mankinde will have its flurts and flings out at some time or other through the Devils instigations yea and though there were no Devil to tempt man yet a base heart would supply the place of a busie Devil and act the Tempters part against it self It would have a supply of wickedness as a Serpent hath of poison from it self 12. Answ the third It may be likewise that your corruption is in chains and under restraint as it was with Abimelech Gen. 20. 6. It was not the King there that restrained himself from offering wrong to beautiful Sarah but 't is expresly said that it was God who restrained him vers 3. 17. either by Sickness whereof he should have died as God threatned him had he not restored her to her husband without injuring her or by the restraint of a natural Conscience which is a gift that God gives to men yea to the rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell among them to wit in his Worship and Ordinances Psal 68. 18. without which Restraining Grace Religion would never be suffered by wicked men to be in the world neither could there be upholden any Commonwealth or Society among men without it hence it appears that the corruption of your heart is but like a Wolf in chains your naughty nature may be chained up from evil when it is not changed yet into good notwithstanding this you may be but as a tame Devil or at least but as an unclean Hog onely in a clean place where you cannot with the Swine wallow in the mire of wickedness but if ever God let you loose by giving you the reins of your own unruly corruptions and by yielding you up to your own vile affections as Rom. 1. 24 26. you will not stick at any sin but run into all excess of riot with others in the world as 1 Pet. 4.4 and be as vile as the vilest David felt the transgressions of the wicked working and speaking even in his own heart Psal 36. 1. 13. Answer The 4th Answ And whereas you say that you have an honest heart paying each their own you must know that you may be a good Second-Table-man in Righteousness while you are but a bad First-Table-man in Holiness You may give man his due yet rob God of his due Mal. 3. 8. As you must not break the Commandments against your Creed by professing an holy Faith yet practising an unholy Life so neither may you break one of the Tables of the Decalogue against the other by your resting in a Righteousness to man only and the mean while rejecting all true and due Holiness to God this is not dividing aright for God which is supposed to be Cain's sin in his unrespected Sacrifice An honest and a good heart will give God his due as well as Man his 14. The Third Objection is A third poor ignorant Soul may say thus or one and the same Soul may make all these three Objections I know not the Characters of a self-deceiving heart and therefore do I think mine own heart to be an honest heart that cheats me not In Answer thereunto you must know there be four principal Characters though many more might be named of a self-deceiving heart As 1. a Silent 2. A Brawny 3. An Untractble And 4. an Unstable or Unconstant Heart 1. A Silent Heart is always to be suspected for a self-deceiving Heart the Spirit of Man is an active lively thing and therefore it is called in the Hebrew Ruach which signifies the Wind a thing that is always in motion yea Audible though not Visible Now if this Spirit grow senseless stupid and