5. Another deceit is this, when a man doth commit a sin, his heart will plead thus, that it did not consent to it, he ne∣ver lik't it in his heart. O this is the com∣mon cheat whereby many deceive them∣selves; when they swear, lye, cozen, backbite, are drunk, or do any thing a∣miss, O they will say, they have they thank God as good hearts as the best; why Brethren, if your hearts be so good, how come your lives to be so bad, if I see smoak come out at the chimney top, none shall make me believe, but that there is fire on the hearth; Solomon will make this plain, and he traceth up sin to the very fountain of it, 6. Prov. 12, 13. but whence comes all this that he saith, of the naughty Per∣son in those 2. v. why read the 14. v. and you will see frowardness is in his heart, and no wonder then that he walketh with a froward mouth; there can be no surer
Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- 1687.
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"Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53271.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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sign of a naughty heart than a wicked life, 'tis true an upright sincere heart, may now and then commit a sin, but 'tis not his common trade and practice; but where we see a continual stream of profaneness, dayly running in a man's life and conver∣sation, then we may certainly judge and conclude, that there is a naughty fountain in that man's heart.