~ ro6 Mofes his Se/fi-deniall. PirttJ.& eft come the flame of Iu(lin this rem : Jft:~~ at;_ o.!l, in.en· ic was}~~rth,~Ie.~~re~~Y~ te · 11is. • 6~~ept fate in rhe llery furn.~c~. Wh.en.. J;:;::~:~: ·~e Vyor.!d e_roife.~~~~r~t.~e -in ~h~ lotx_ pi'a~c~indi an~eauty of 1t unto us, thetemptatino~fuzt . on IS ll:rong t:o flefh and blood : Hence mtnru mzra- • • . ,nlum 'Vincc- we have fo many Caveats m Scr1pture, r~~a~~M that when wt 4r..e fol, we fuould beware, . ·:z~~qu~d , thAt we forget not God, and take heede trcs.viri.ex we declinenot from him ; then, then is wamz~9 tg~es the danoer when corruption hath mat- (alwJ &' tn- b ' . columeJ C'U~- teftO feed Ofl, yet then tO keep It down .(erum. argues tlrength. Itis not the worke of Lntb.i?t h•ld f H fc d cap. 51 • a c 1 e,to governe a or epampere ·, full fed in fat paflures. It was an argutnentthat Davidhad much power over his affe:ll:ions, that tpough the waters of Bethleem w·erefo longed for of him, fq ddirable to hhn,yet when he had it before him, and might have drnnke of it', yet then he could .denyhimfclf, and re- · fufed. When Efau looked on the pot-· rage of.Iacob, and faw it was [o red, fo · futablc and pleating to him, that ·h.ee mufi needs have it; though it coft him his birth:rig~t, hee was not :1ble tO d~· .. ny himfelfin giving contentment to hts flelh, at thatonetime, th~ugh he kne\~} . ~t
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