follotves Goa fußy, oh that therewere a heart that they would leaveme! So there maybee flafhes of joy,defire, forrow,anci yet ni) true fang ctified joy, defire, or forrow ar all.` There is much deceit in mens affedi- ons : Affetions not well principkd, not well grounded, foon vaniíh, time will weare th( toaway. Thepeople of Ifrael at the giving of the Law, had their affeCions much flirted, fo that one would have thought, they had been eng:ged unto the Lord forever; andyet u. ithin fourty days their hearts were fo taken off fromGod and his Law, as if God had never made him - fete known unto them s theycall to Baron to make them gods to goe be- fo re them,and fay to the molten Calfe, heft be thygods, o Ifrael, which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt. Another notable example we have of people whofeaffeóions areftrong for the pre- fent, and yet worn away in a little time, in the 13. of Hofsa r. when E- phraim fpake , trembling : Hee exalted h irnflfe in Ifrael , but when hee offended in Baal, he died: WhenEphraim[ake, that is, when Jeroboam, whowas ofthe V 4 Tribe 295 Sanaius in Hofea 13.
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