140 d Sermon'un I A M•E s· I. Verfe u. t ~· -. .. - 'Decdving JOurjdvu. to fet fomewhat right: Andi it is plainlyto miflake it,to looll.e ~ i'Jffit, andforgetourchiefe errand to it. · •. ,'_ 00 _ As this is amanifell: miflakingin theNature; fo is there alike in the E,nd. For whereas they heare, todoe; and to doe, is the End why th heare; thefe Auditores tantumdoe (eve1;1 as Saint Paul faith) rrquiefcunt e_y lege, make the Law theirpillotv, lay them downe upon it, and there take th;l reft: Never feekc farther,and fo miffe ~heir marke quire. ~ But a worfe error yet than this is, tha~ they wh_ich W~etl they have beard, have done, feeme to thtnke that bearmgand do~ng is all one: ina/: much as all they doe, is onely th_at theybear: ; and fo, grolly con; found the two pa_rrs, that are platnly diihn~milied. For, hearing is a fe.nfe, an'd fenfe 1s In fuffenng : but the !Jeartng of the Werd is fo eafie a Juf{ering, as ifwe looke not to our felves,we often fall af!erpe at it. No'JV jujforingand doingare plainly dillinguilbed :and not onely plainly difii;.. guiihed, bur (as we fee) flatly oppofed (bySaint lames in the Text) cichet to other. · Nor to hold you over-long : feeing the Apoffle borrowed hiHerme of Paralogifme from the Schooles, to lpeake in Schoole.-termes, 'In be~to ring one{y, and not doing, there is (firfl) the li./ench, Afenfu ·compojito ad dillijum : which they fall intu,that where two thingsare-rfquir«i, reil iia one. And againe, Elench,.A diEtn fecutJdum quid,addi8um fimjJliciter :wh~re. with they are dewwd, rh1t havingapart,think thatpart ihall.ferve them, in flead of theTvhole. Which two, are apeece ofrlie Devilsfopbiftr}; and fo you fee, both 'that they aredecei"Ved; • and ho\1! they art d~cei~d ~ha~ reil upon bearing onely. · Bur to be deceiwd limply, is no fo great matter j wife men (manyof them) are fo, and any ofthem may be. This is tha_t ' which edgeth'it yet more, which giveth it a double edge: that they decel"l!! themfelws. · t In which point, firfl cerraine it is, there is no man, tha: willingfy would bedeemed, can endure to be deceived himfelfe. Saich the firll and greatefl Deceiver to Elle even then, wh'en he came purpofely todecei)lt > > • f j I her, >.:J llN, Is it for atroth,that God hat/1 forbtdden you -to eate o al tlwttees!As ifhe ihould fay: I would not have you deceille me, tell me true, whether ic be fo or no.Lo, he would not bedeceiwdhimfelfe,though he came meer~ ly about deceipt. z. Bur then fecondly: If dueilJtdwe mull be, ofall menwe w~ld not bee deceilled of fuch, as we rrnfl : that grieves us exceedingly. Salt? Vauid,Hebat/7 beguiledme whom! trufted; my G"ide, my (ounjeUor,my(ami~ liarfriend He can never fay enough ofit, for it is a griefe above all gnefe~ to be fo deceilled. . 3 Thirdly then, if not by one wee truft, leafl of all, by that party, whom moll ofall we trufl (that is) by our fdvc:s; for, we truft ·- · · - - - - · - non~
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