§. Sect. 2 Of integrity and sincerity.
The first is integrity, whereby we serue the Lord in all Christian du∣ties with our whole hearts, according to Gods Commandement; Thou shalt feare the Lord thy God, to walke in all his wayes, and to loue him, and to serue the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soule. The which Dauid performed, as he professeth: With my whole heart haue I sought thee; O let me not wander from thy Commandements. Vnto which is opposed, seruing God by the halues, lamely and haltingly, diuiding our hearts be∣tweene him and his enemies, the diuell, Idols, and the earthly Mammon; like the Israelites which halted betweene God and Baal, the true Iehouah, and Idols of the Heathens, and the Samaritans, who feared the Lord, and serued their owne gods. And of such the Prophet Hosea complaineth; Their heart (saith he) is diuided; namely, betweene the true Iehouah, and their Idols. And the Apostle Iames calleth them double-minded, who are vnstable in all their wayes, one while offering vnto God some for∣mall seruice, and another while seruing the world, and their owne lusts. And as they haue double hearts, so also double tongues, speaking vanity to their neighbours with flattering lips, and with an heart and an heart, or a dou∣ble heart. The second is sincerity and vprightnesse of heart, without any mixture of guile and falshood, when as wee worship God in simplicity, truth, and singlenesse of heart, and in performing the duties of his seruice, doe lay aside all carnall, worldly and by-respects, and doe them onely in conscience of his Commandement, and out of a desire to glorifie him by our obedience to his holy will, seeking him therein with our whole hearts, and not our selues and our owne worldly ends, like seruile mercenaries, who serue their masters, not out of any loue they beare him, but onely for their owne gaine and aduantage. Vnto which is opposed dissimulati∣on and hypocrisie; which maketh men to content themselues with out∣ward shewes, which haue no substance; with outward profession, without all sound practice; with a dead carcase of Religion, without the soule of sincerity, or any vertue and vigour appearing in their actions; and with a formall, false and counterfeit seruice in the outward man, without any sub∣stance or truth in the inward parts.