to you Be more Zealous for the Salvation of your own Souls be more fearful of their Damnation be more tender of wounding and wronging your Souls Take heed of sin Prov. 8.36 He that sinneth wrongeth his own Soul all they that hate me love Death You that sin against God ye wrong your own Souls Love your Souls better and you will never be such proud Livers or such Worldlings or such Drunkards or Rioters you would be sober and serious and circumspect If you lov'd your Selves better you would take heed of this Lying and these Oaths and this unrighteous Dealing of this hardness of Heart in your sins you would fall upon your Knees you would fall upon your Faces and be ashamed and bewail and repent of your sins and return to the Lord from them all had you more of this true Self-love within you Sinners why come you not in to Christ Why will you not yet be perswaded to repent Why Man hast thou no love to thy Self The Apostle tells us Eph. 5.29 No Man ever yet hated his own Flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it He useth that word to press Husbands to love their Wives who says he are their own Flesh Dost thou not love thy Self What wouldst thou say of a Man that doth not love his Wife but would play the Tyrant and Tygre brawling and snarling yea fighting and beating her You would say This were a Monster among Men rather than a Christian worse than the very Brutes amongst whom it 's seldom seen that the Male snarleth or biteth or pusheth at the Female What then is he that loveth not his own Soul Lovest thou thy Self Lovest thou thine own Soul Then take heed of going on in thy Sins then take heed of standing it out against Christ You hear what a reward there is for the Righteous you hear what an Inheritance Christ hath laid up for his Saints an Inheritance in Light Life Love Joy everlasting Pleasure and everlasting Glory Christ would make those poor Souls blessed Souls joyful Souls glorious Souls partakers of the everlasting Riches of his Glory and Joy But what wilt thou say My Soul shall have no part in it My Soul shall never come there my Lot shall never be with the Saints but shall be without amongst Unbelievers Impenitents amongst Dogs and Sorcerers and Idolaters In refusing to come to Christ to Repent and be made Holy thou sayest in effect my Soul shall never come to Heaven Let it to Hell amongst Dogs and Devils and that vile and wicked Generation of the Damned But Sinner hast thou forgot that thou art a Man Art thou a Monster of Men Hast thou lost all love to thy Self to thine own Soul Doest thou neither love nor pity thine own Soul Wouldst thou that Christ should ever love thee when thou whilt not love thy Self Wouldst thou that Christ should ever pity thee when thou wilt not pity thy self O Sinners love your own Souls pity your own Souls be not so cruel and hard-hearted to your selves Will you for the love of your Lusts for the love of the World sell your Souls to the Devil sell them to Hell to make Faggots for the everlasting Burnings Where are your Bowels O pity pity that poor blind and miserable Soul of thine and bring it to Christ for pity's sake go on in thy evil ways no longer be a Drunkard no longer a Worldling no longer a Lyar a Scoffer no longer be no longer hardned in your sins but come away to Christ and escape for your Lives if you love your Selves come if you have any pity for your Selves come let the dread of the Cruelties of the Devil bring you back from following him and come you in and cast your Selves upon the Blood upon the Bowels and Compassions of Christ who is such an High Priest as can have compassion upon the Ignorant and those that are out of the way and even on the worst of Sinners that will return to him What shall I say more to you I will speak but the same words let every one of you see that he so love himself as Christ loved the Church washing it and saving it by his Blood Love your Selves and save your Selves love your Selves and bless your Selves in the God of Truth Don't bless your selves in the Earth in your Money in your Lands in your carnal Pleasures in your carnal Friends these things are not nor ever think they will be your Blessedness but bless your Selves in the God of Truth bless your Selves in Jesus whom God hath sent to bless you in turning you from your Iniquities Act. 3.26 Turn to Christ and you shall be blessed be Believers and you shall be Blessed come in this day and let your Names be written among the blessed of the Lord come every one of you and put in your Names among the Disciples of Christ Let me be one Lord let me be another write down my Name for one among thy Disciples I am willing to be thine and do solemnly covenant and this very day give my Self to Thee Who of you are there that will thus come in Will you be perswaded to it or must I lose my labour Are there any of you Is there any one of all the Sinners in this Company that will thus come in Come then in the Name of the Lord come get your Names to be thus written in the Lamb's Book and and he will write it in Heaven there it will be found in the last Day written in the Book of Life this do and then you that have been hitherto the Haters and Wrongers and Cruel will hence-forth appear to be Lovers of your own Souls 2. There is a sinful Self-love this is the great Heart Idolatry and the Root of all Rebellion and Disobedience to God Here I shall shew you 1. What this sinful Self-love is 1. It is a Love of mistaken Self of Carnal-self a love of the Flesh and it's Affections and Lusts a love of that Flesh which Christ would have us to hate and deny Mat. 16.24 Himself that is his Flesh or Carnal-self Men are mistaken in themselves and count that their Self which is not their Self as Christ said to the Woman of Samaria John 4. concerning her Husband He that thou hast for an Husband is not thine Husband so may it be said to Sinners That which thou takest for thy Self is not thy Self this Flesh which thou takest for thy Self and lovest as thy Self is not thy Self You that love your Flesh you love your Enemy you that please your Flesh you are pleasing your Enemy you that are working for your Flesh and providing for your Flesh and pampering your Flesh you are working for and feeding your Enemy you count you are seeking of and working for your Self no 't is for your Enemy this Flesh is your Mortal Enemy Now this is one sort of sinfull Self-love when we love our Flesh or our corruptions when we love our Selves as Fleshly-minded Men when we love to please and
Rejoyce not so as to forget your own Sins or your Brethrens Afflictions 1. So as not to forget your Sins 1. Rejoyce not so in the Lord as to forget your Sins against God Your Joy must arise from this that God hath forgotten them but though God hath forgotten you must remember them they must still stand written in your own Book though God hath blotted them out of his 1. Forget not in your Joy the Sins that you are guilty of that so you may rejoyce with Mourning we are apt in our rejoycing to forget our sins if we do not remember our sins when we are lifted up in Joy we are too apt to be puffed up with Pride Godly sorrow will be of the same use to us in our rejoycing as Paul's Thorn in the Flesh 2 Cor. 12.7 to prevent our being exalted above Measure That Joy which killeth Godly Sorrow whilest we are here what a Divine Tincture soever it seems to have 't is suspicious that it is not the right Joy the more solid Joy of the Saints hath it's Foundation in Godly Sorrow When we consider what great things the Lord hath done for our Souls how he hath Regenerated reconciled and called us by his Grace pulled us as Brands out of the Burning and raised us as Worms out of the Dunghill and made us sit together with Christ in Heavenly Places cloathed with Garments of Salvation and made us to shine forth in his Image when we remember what the Lord is to us our Rock our Refuge our Father our All-sufficient Portion all Love and Life all Bowels Compassions and everlasting Consolation when we remember this and therein do rejoyce we must then consider But what have I been to him What have I done against him who hath done so great things for me What an unworthy Wretch what a sinful Polluted and unthankful Creature am I God hath loved me God hath saved me the Lord God is become my God and herein I do and I will rejoyce but woe is me I have sinned against the God of my Mercy and therefore I will rejoyce with Mourning whilest I Joy in the Lord I will weep over my sinful unworthy and guilty Soul Whilest you say with the Psalmist Psal 66.16 Come unto me all ye that fear the Lord and I will tell you tell you with Joy tell you with Praise what he hath done for my Soul what a gracious God what a Compassionate Merciful God I have found him to be to me whilest you say thus Come and I will tell you what God hath done for me you must say also Come and I will tell you tell you with shame tell you with sorrow what my Soul hath done against God O how vile have I been How Proud and how false to God How many wayes guilty before him of neglecting of abusing of walking unworthy of his wonderful Love The Lord is my God therein I will rejoyce I have sinned against God and for these things I weep and lament 2. Not so as to forget the sins that have been Conquered by us that we may rejoyce in Triumph the Victories that we have gotten over sin will be both an advance to our Joy in God and the Evidence of the sincerity of that Joy Those that are still in the Chains and Fetters of Lust in whom their Pride or their Covetousness or their Frowardness doth still Lord it over them and can yet rejoyce in God it is to be doubted that their Joy is false and foolish Joy a Light of their own Sparks and no Divine Sun-beam fear that Joy and trample upon it which will consist with a Slavery to Lust as the Apostle sayes concerning Death 1 Cor. 15.57 so should we concerning Sin Thanks be to God that hath given us the Victory this is Matter of Praise this is Matter of Joy When the Israelites saw the Egyptians Dead upon the Sea-Shore Exod. 14.30 then they Sang a Song of Joy and Praise Luke 10.20 Rejoyce not that the Devils are subject to you that is that you have Power to cast the Devils out of Possessed Bodies Rejoyce not that is not so much in this but rather rejoyce that your Names are written in Heaven and that 's the same with this Rejoyce not that the Devils are cast out by you but that your sins are Conquered by you Victory over sin is an Evidence of our Title to Glory next to the Blood of the Lamb the Blood of our mortified sins is the best Ink to write our Names in the Book of Life Rev. 3.12 Him that overcometh will I make a Pillar in the House of my God and I will write upon him the Name of my God and the Name of the City of my God c. Christians what have you done in your War against Sin What work have you made with those Lusts which War in your Members Can you tell of any Conquest you have gotten Where be the Persons among you that can say This Heart was once a Proud Heart but now through the Grace of God 't is more humble this Heart was once a froward Heart but now through Mercy it 's become meek the Lion is become a Lamb this Heart was once a Covetous Heart an Hungry greedy Heart all Earth and Earthy clogged and chained to this World by its Worldly Lusts but now through Grace the Cloggs are knocked off the Chain is broken and my Soul is gotten loose from this Earth and can now despise it in comparison of God and the things above Friends have you any of you experiences of any such Victories Forget them not keep them by you and in the day of your rejoycing in God let your Eye be upon these your Conquests of Sin and this will be a means that your joy will be the more full then will you Triumph in Christ Jesus when with your Conquering Captain you have your Enemies in Chains 3. Not so as to forget the Sins that we are in danger of but to rejoyce with trembling we are still in our Warfare and how far forth soever we have Prospered in it we have Enemies still before us that we are in perpetual danger of therefore as it is said let not him boast so let not him rejoyce that 's putting on his Armour as if he were putting it off The Canaanite is still in the Land sin lies at the Door and will be upon you if you stand not upon your guard Christians must build up themselves in their Holy joy as the Jews built the Wall of Jerusalem Nehem. 4.17 They must have a Trowel in one Hand and a Sword in the other they must Build and Watch Build and Fight there is an evil Worm that is apt to grow out of our Joy which will overthrow and devour it and that is Security or secure Confidence It was this that spoiled the Psalmist's Joy who was a better Man and a Wiser than any of us Psal 30.6 7. I said in my Prosperity I should never be moved
upon conscience Guilt Guile 1. Guilt there is guilt upon the conscience every sin leaves guilt behind it The whole world is become guilty before God Rom. 3.15 Because the whole world are sinners or subject to the Judgment of God But then there is guilt upon the man and guilt upon the conscience There are some sins that leave guilt upon the man but do not immediatly leave guilt upon the conscience as sins of ignorance these leave guilt upon the man but not allways upon the conscience because such sins conscience does not nor can take notice of and so they cannot be called sins against conscience Guilt there is upon conscience 1. When conscience through remissness or neglect does not take notice of them nor charge the soul to take heed of them 2. When though conscience does know sin to be sin and those particular acts that I am tempted to to be sinful acts yet lust prevails to bring us on upon the commission of them against conscience Thou knowest that lying is a sin thy conscience tells thee so and yet thou wilt lye Thou knowest that drunkenness that defrauding that profaning the sabbath that neglect to pray and to hear are sins And thy conscience tells thee they are and yet thou wilt lye or be drunk or work or travel upon the Lords day neglect to pray c. This leaves a guilt upon thy conscience O how great O how dreadful guilt is there upon the consciences of many of us How many bills of indictment will thy conscience have to bring forth against thee before thy Judge The guilt of neglecting Christ the guilt of hardning thy heart against mercy besides all the guilt of thine oaths and of thy drunkenness and of thy covetousness and of thy lying and stealing and scoffing all this guilt lyes upon thee and this is one thing that conscience must be recovered from ere it can be a good conscience 2. Guile or falshood or treachery of conscience Conscience will juggle and deal deceitfully it will dispense with or give allowance of sin it will connive and wink at iniquity Some sins which can be better spared it resists others such as interest or inclination lead more strongly to it lets them pass and will not see them to be sin and therefore dares not examine whether they be sin or no. This is a guileful conscience it is true of Christians what is said of Nathaniel Joh. 1.47 An Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile Psal 32.2 Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile This is a good conscience that is plain and honest and faithful Heb. 13.18 We trust ye have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly Now these being the diseases in conscience guilt and guile from these we must get them recovered and their recovery must be wrought by bloud and water By the bloud of Christ Heb. 5.14 How much more shall the loud of Christ purge your consciences And by water also by he water of sanctification and by the water of repentance Penitent tears have their use to the washing of conscience Sinners take heed have no guilt upon your consciences have you no guile in your consciences O how dreadfully guilty O how miserably guileful hath that conscience of thine been Get your consciences purged get the bloud of Christ to be sprinkled upon them Draw water so the pouring forth penitent tears is expressed .. 1. Sam. 7.6 They drew water and poured it forth before the Lord and fasted that day Draw water sinners weep before the Lord for your sins and this will be the washing your consciences from the guilt and guile that is upon them 2. Keep conscience working Though method would require that I speak to this of keeping conscience under the next general the keeping of the heart yet I choose rather to speak to it here Keep conscience working A lazy sleeping conscience is good for nothing it is a stirring working conscience that does its office that must industriously be maintained Conscience hath 1. An eye 2. A Book 3. A Tongue 4. A Scepter 1. An eye And the eye of conscience must be kept open The eye of conscience is even as the eye of God it may be said of conscience in its measure as of God Psal 139.2.3 Thou knowest my down fitting and uprising thou understandest my thoughts and art acquainted with all my wayes The eye of conscience beholds our very inwards all things are naked and open even before that conscience with which we have to do and this is somthing you have to keep you doing to keep the eye of conscience open Let not conscience wink at your follies let it see and observe what ever you do 2. A Book A Register or book of records where it writes down what it sees Jer. 17.1 The sin of Judah is written It is graven upon the tables of the hearts the meaning there is it hath entered into their hearts it hath corrupted and eaten into their hearts there are the scars and impressions of it upon them Their iniquities have marked them and marked them in their very hearts for vile and ungodly ones This graving of sin upon the heart notes the hearts defilement the corrupting of the heart But then there is a writing for remembrance a writing of scores or books of account and thus mens sins are written in the book of conscience now this also must be looked to that conscience be faithful and book down all our sins that they may be remembred by us and repented of The book of conscience will be written whether men will or no if conscience will be negligent and will not write down its own faults God will do it and will write down all our sins if conscience will not If we mark not God will mark them Jer. 2.22 Thine iniquity is marked before me If we record not God will record them What conscience writes conscience may read and remember but what God writes upon the neglect of conscience sinners cannot read or remember now but there it shall all be to be seen at the great day of accounts when the book shall be opened and read before Angels and men Sinners what is there written in those books within you Are your sins written there Hath conscience kept a record of them It is well if it have look into that book read over and remember all your ways go and ask thy conscience if thou hast not been a Lyar if thou hast not been a swearer a Drunkard a covetous liver a flesh pleaser ask thy conscience if it hath not been so How many have been thy lyes how many have been thine oathes how many drunken bouts how many rioting days how many greedy and covetous practices hast thou been guilty of Look into that book in thy bosom if conscience hath been faithful there thou maiest read and remember and so come to be humbled for them But if conscience hath not noted these things but
hath been asleep and let thee alone to run thy course without its keeping an account yet God hath written down all Though thou hast forgotten what thou hast been though thou hast forgotten or taken no notice of what thou hast done yet God hath his book of remembrance against thee thine iniquities are all marked before him These things thou hast done and I kept silence but I will reprove thee and set thy sins in order before thee Psal 50.21 The Lord stood by and saw thee when thou wert in thy cups the Lord hearkened and heard all thine oaths thy lies and though he kept silence and let thee alone for the time and said little to reprove or affright thee yet thou shalt see and know that he saw thee where ever thou were and marked what ever thou hast done thou shalt know it by this that he will hereafter reprove thee and set all thy sins in order before thee And O what a fearful sight will that be when thou shalt have the black roll of all the wickedness that thou hast done in thy life at once presented to thy view Now you would be ready to say I know nothing by my self or no great matters at least thou hast but a few things against thy self and those few thou countest small matters But when God shall bring forth the whole roll and force thee to read every line and to see every sin in its colours then shalt thou see every one of thy sins as so many Devils to torment thee forever Sinner how dost thou think thou shalt look in that day how will thy face grow pale and thy countenance be changed and thy bones tremble at such an horrid sight of all thy sins at once O prevent this misery by getting Conscience to be faithful let Conscience keep its Book open and write down all thy ways that there thou maist read them at present and remember them in order to thy repentance and their being blotted out by the bloud of the Lamb. 3. A Tongue Conscience is called by a Proverb the Preacher in the bosom How shall this Preacher preach if he hath not a tongue to speak God be merciful to those Congregations which have dumb Priests and to those sinners that have dumb Consciences How long may poor Congregations sit under a dumb Priest ere they hear any thing to purpose either of their duty or their faults they may be blind and ignorant souls and never hear one word of instruction or of the danger of their ignorance they may be without Christ and without God in the World and so may continue to their dying day and never hear one word to bring them to Christ or turn them to God They may be Liars Drunkards Swearers Sabbath-breakers or what they will and whatever they be they never hear a word to bring them to repentance They may live without prayer reading or so much as thinking of God or their everlasting state and not a word spoken to bring them to these necessary duties And just thus sadly it fares with people that are under dumb consciences They may do what they will be as wicked as they will and conscience lets them alone Sinner dost thou not find this to be true in thy case Thou canst go all thy days without serious prayer no prayer in secret no prayer in the family thou canst live in this respect like a very heathen and thou canst lye and swear and drink and scoff and be covetous and what says conscience to all this Not a word Thy conscience may say in its wickedness as God said in his righteousness These things thou hast done and I kept silence Such mens consciences it may be said of them as concerning David towards his son Adonijah 1. Kings 1.6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying why hast thou done so Mens consciences will not displease them will not displease their lusts but will let them alone and say nothing to them good nor bad How often dost thou hear of thy conscience When did it check thee or reprove thee or warn thee When dost thou hear such a word within thee How shall I do this wickedness and sin against God With what conscience can I be thus false or fraudulent or froward With what conscience can I keep such vain or lewd company With what conscience can I live without prayer or any thing of the worship of God in my house Is there any conscience in this lying or promise-breaking or deceitful dealing Is there any conscience in this idle careless life to live thus in the neglect of God and my soul When dost thou hear such a word within thee thou hast a conscience such as it is but it hath lost its tongue and will not reprove thee or warn thee but let thee alone to follow thy lust and humour without controul and in what a woful case art thou that art under such a dumb conscience We read that Christ in great wrath said to his Disciples concerning the Pharisees Mat. 15.14 Let them alone they be blind leaders of the blind let them alone say nothing to them Hath Christ said thus to conscience concerning thee Let him alone say not a word to him let him be blind while he will let him be hardned while he will speak no more to him to awaken him Is not this a dreadful case O Friends pray for a faithful conscience that will not cease to warn you from day to day Do not muzzle the mouth of conscience encourage your consciences to speak to you by giving them free leave to speak yea by asking and enquiring of conscience Conscience what sayest thou to this course I am going on in If I ask my will or my affections or my lusts concerning these vain ways these all are pleased and like it that I go on thus But what sayest thou O my conscience Is it good that I be a Worldling or a Sensualist or a Liar or unjust or unmerciful Is this as God would have it Is this the life that God is well pleased with Ask conscience such questions and put conscience to it to give in its answer and there is hope it will speak And then hear what conscience speaks If conscience speak and speak and men will not hear this is the next way to stop its mouth a deaf ear will make a dumb conscience If conscience speaks and it cannot be heard if the warnings and items of conscience be born down by lust and appetite this is the next way to put conscience to silence that it speaks no more Sinners you have been hitherto consulting with flesh and bloud taking counsel of sense and appetite and carnal interest and whilest conscience hath kept silence you see in what away you have gone on Would you have conscience speak or have it hold its peace Will you henceforth enquire of conscience what it does in earnest judge of your present life what it does judge best for
subject let me in the name of God ask you what is there that hath been yet done upon you what is there that hath been added to your holy love to your holy desires and joys fears and griefs are there any little sparkes added to you do you love God a little more then you did do you desire after him a little more strongly are your fears of sin your fears of temptations to sin your grief and sorrow for sin a little encreased Is there any abatement of your love to the World of your worldly desires and joys Is there any allay of your fretful angry passion Who of you can say I thank God these words have not been spoken to me in vain I thank God I find this World taken down a little lower I do not love it so well nor desire it so much nor I hope shall ever again seek it so earnestly as I have done are you any thing the more in fear of sin or greiv'd for sin are you in hope that your anger shall henceforth not be without a cause nor above or higher then its cause nor ever last as it has used to do Friends consider in the name of God consider What is there nothing done are you as cold in your love to God as hot in your love to the World as much without fear and greif for sin as if none of all this had been spoken The Lord be merciful to us what shall become of such hearing What serves this Preaching for what serves this hearing for Doth God take pleasure or can you take comfort in your coming together to hear and being a little affected with the word whilst 't is preaching or speaking some words after of your approbation and liking what you have heard when yet the Word doth not work nor leave any standing and abiding impressions upon you It s vain to commend a Sermon in words if the fruit it brings forth commend it not The best commendation of your food is by your eating it and maintaining your health and gathering strength by it O Friends that 's the commendation we would have of our preaching and the only commendation that we can take comfort in that our word reacheth its end that there is some sign of our ministry upon your hearts and in your lives that we may say concerning you as the Apostle concerning the Corinthians 2 Cor. 3.2.8 Ye are our Epistle and are declared to be the Epistle of Christ written not with ink but with the spirit of the living God Those are the best Sermon Notes that are written not with ink and paper but by the Spirit of the living God in the fleshly tables of our hearts These are the best Sermon Notes and these are the best commendation of our preaching Now pray friends consider I do not ask you what there is written of these Sermons in your note books but what is there written of them in your hearts Is there any thing more of the love of God of desires after God of fear of sin c. written or begotten within you Had I ability and opportunity of personal converse with you I should be willing to deal with you in private hand to hand and to ask you these questions man by man but to supply that defect of speaking personally and in private to each one of you take what I speak in my publick Ministry as if it were spoken to thee in particular and I were dealing with thee hand to hand Though thou canst not give me thine answer yet fail not to give answer in thine own heart when I ask thee whither thou hast gotten any more love to God any more desires after God any abatement of thy love to the World any more fear of Sin c. Answer thine own Conscience in this particular I must substitute thy Conscience in my room and let Conscience take thine Answer Speak every man of you iâ— your Consciences how do you find it is there any thâ—ng done upon you by these words or is there nothing 〈◊〉 what do you think of all your hearing these words if thâ—re be nothing done if there be as much love to the World as little love to God or fear of Sin if there be the same touchiness the same pettishness the some angry distemper as if you had kept you at home all this while and never heard any of all that has been said Are not you ashamed are not you afraid that these words of the Lord should have no effect upon you Beloved I have preached to you in hope I have hoped for fruit I have hop'd for some change for the better upon you in all these respects O set your hearts unto all these words remember what you can and recover what you have forgotten look up to God look up to God and pray this prayer to him Lord let the things that have been spoken be written Let them be written not with ink and pen but by the Spirit of the living God not in a book or paper but in the fleshly table of mine heart Look up to God for his help and determine in your selves to set your hearts to it to follow after this blessed Order and Government of your hearts Study within your selves how to get up your affections to things above to get loose your hearts from the World and things below be not content to be thus dead in your hearts towards God thus alive towards the World nor be content to wish for more of the divine love to wish you could abate towards this world but in good earnest make it your business and study so to do Might we once bring you to this that while we are labouring with you in the Word and Doctrine you would labour with us in the Lord to work your hearts to an affectionate compliance with our words if you would be stedfast and unmoveable and abounding in this work then there would be hope that neither our labour nor yours should be in vain in the Lord then should we look to see the death of these Worldly loues and lusts and a spring of the divine love and life and joy and glory this earth and flesh under foot and the Spirit of Glory and of God resting upon you Put on therefore in the fear of the Lord set you close to this Heart-governing-work quicken strengthen encourage your hearts herein with these words Yet further the Government of the heart stands 4. In suppressing all manner of evil and exciting and maintaining the good that is in your hearts There are in the heart as there are in a Kingdom two parties the evil party and the good party The evil party are the Rebellious Lusts of our hearts the good party are the Graces of God The Government of the Heart is to be as the Government of a Kingdom for the suppressing the evil and the encouraging and upholding the good The evil Party are the lusts of the Heart Pride Envy Malice Covetousness c.