How far the Works of Human Life are from the perfection of Righteousness.
But now, do you your self perform all these things, which you require in us for the perfection of righteousness? Hath the great Husbandman watered the happy ground of your mind, with so great a vigor and ver∣dure of his bounty, that no wild Vines nor Briars do any where appear in all your life? That no Lust draws you aside from your duty? No perturbation of affections throws you down from your state of constancy? No concupisence of the eyes defiles the purity of your mind? He that seeth a Wo∣man, saith he, to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his Heart. What if a man is accounted unchast before God, if so much as his Eyes are Adulterous, if he is next to a Mur∣therer that is so much as rashly an∣gry at his Brother; if he that calls his Brother Racha, or bespat∣ters the name of his Neighbour with the smallest reproach, is in dan∣ger