and the Mind's unlimited Agility; in these depths of quick-shifting Thoughts, Sin easily hideth it self: External Sins in Words or Works, are (like the Plague of Leprosie, Levit. 13.12, 13. broken all abroad and covering all the Skin) nearer the Cure, and by so much the more easily amended, or overcome, by how much more evident they are, not only to others, but also to our selves.
6. THE Sins of the Heart are harder to be cured, the more secret, and invisibly they are Committed: The Thoughts are more secure∣ly Extravagant, Negligent and Presuming by how much less they are obvious, to any Pre∣tender, or Censurer without: And where the Heart is smitten with some awful fear of God, and resolution to Repent, maketh In∣quest after Sin; that which is in Word, or Action, is more easily and frequently found: But the sin of the Mind, like Jonathan and Ahimaaz at Bahurim, is let down into the depth of the Heart, whose secret Enemies are like those Ligurian Mountainers, whom the Roman's Chased, more hardly found, than Vanquished. Moreover, Man's innate Self-Love and natural Complacency, makes him unapt, and loth to Condemn himself, in any thing wherein he conjectures others cannot.
7. LASTLY, The restless machina∣tion of Satan is to suggest Self-delusions, as he doth Temptations to Sin, whereby his Baits may be swallowed. His policy is to keep the Heart for his Retreat; and if any reproof