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I.
Gen.;.
2.
3
vie
ITEM;
23.
Ephefaan.r
Chap,q..
VE
fnne.
It
pretends
that
it
never
performer;
and
like
a
baited hooke, it
fhewes meate and covers
murder.
Now
there lufts
are
deceitfull
in
that they promifeand
pretend
fuch
ends
as
they
never leade
unto
:
even
as
the devil'
perfwaded the
firft
luting
by this
Argument, it
fhould
make
them like
God
:
fo
finne it
pro
-
mifeth plcafure,
profit,
and payes a man
home with
paine and mifery.
T
Bey
are deceitfull
,
inafmuch
as
they
put on the
femblance
of
vertu
:
thus covetoufneffe and griping will goe masked
in
the
ap-
pearance
of
good husbandry,
making
the belt
of
a
mans ovine
:
pride
will
goe
in a
vizard
of
comelineffe,
of
wifedome, challenging
the
au-
thority
of
ones place
:
prophaning the Sabbath
will put on the colour
of
Chriffian liberty;
in
which they
refemble theeves, that overtaking
honcft men on the way,
will ride
along with
them,
as
if
they meant
well and
were honeftly minded,
that
they may the better attainc their
booty. Neither
is
this deceit
in
finne
admirable, when the
devil!
him.
felfe
doth
transforme himfelfe into
an
Angell
of
light for
his
greater
advantage.
They
are
deceitfull
in
pleading for
the
retaining
of
them,
in
holding
their owne
:
hence
it
is,that
they blearethe
eyes
of
many that
live
in
them,
as
if
all.were well, nothing
to
be
blamed: hence
it
is
that if
a
man
come to
fee
this or that
a
fault, they will have twenty
excufes
,
Who
liveth
without
his
fault
? you doe
not
this
alone
:
Gad
is merctfull.
If
the judgement
of
God be threatned,
this
bull
-faced harlot
the
luft
of
the heart
will fay,
Tufh, if God
were
thus
angry with
this or
that
finne, we fhould
not have
lived thus long and prolpered
as
wee
have,
no
evil' hath
found
us
out; yet I am
fore
lull
is
as
crafty
as
fer.
pentsare,
for they
will
twine about with manifold turnings,
and
fo in-
trench their heads, (in which
is
the
life
of
them) that
you fhall hardly
be
able
to
;lit
them
on
the head:
fo
fnfull
lulls
winde about
with
twenty
excufes,
as
which
is
full
of
deceitfulneile and knoweth how
to
fave
it
felfe
from receiving
a
deadly wound
in
us.
We
mutt therefore 'carne
to be
cautelous, get
thewifedome
of
Ser-
penes,
they
will
flop their
cares fo againft
the enchaunter,
as
he can-
not
prevaile.
Let
us
flop our cares,
Phut
up
our eyes upon the
perfwa-
fions
of
fnfull
tuff.
If there
be fuch
a
crafry copefmate that
we
know,
we willnot converfe with
fuch
a
perfon
:
no cunnicatcher
fo full
of
guile,
as
the finne
ofour
owne hearts
is
deceiveable.
VERSE
z3.
vind
be
renewed
in
the
Spirit
of
year mind.
Now
he
commeth to the
fecond part
of
our
SanEtification,
which
is
our renewing
:
the Apollle,
r.
Setteth downe the
particular and
fund..mentall part
of
it
in
this
2
3.verfe. z.
The
Univerfall body
of
it
in
the
verfe
following.
The
Univerfallhath
z
.
arts
1
I
.
It
is
propounded,
put
on
the
new
matt.
p
a.The
latter parr
is
expounded
3
wayes:
a.
From the
manner
of
working
it,
which
is
created.
a. Froth the
patterne of
it, after
God.
3.
From
the Effentiallparts
of
it,in
righteou
fneffe
and
holineffe.
Before