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SERMON I.

Deceitfulness of the Heart.

[From Bishop TAYLOR's Sermons. ]

JER. xvii. 9.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and defperately wicked: who can know it?

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RAFT and folly divide the greatest part of mankind; and there is

no other difference but this, that fome are crafty enough to deceive, others foolish enough to be deceived. And yet the scales also turn; for they that are the most crafty to deceive others, are the verieft fools to deceive themselves. They rob their neighbour of his money, and lose their own innocency; they difturb his reft, and vex their own confcience; they throw him into prison, and themselves into hell; they make poverty to be their brother's portion, and damnation to be their own.

Man entered into the world firft alone: but as foon as he met with one companion, he met with three to cheat him; the SerVOL. IV. pent,

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