Chap. 31. .An Exroftion upon the Book of J o a. Vol 5. 3 39 The feet, in proper fence are thepillars and fupporters of the body, They are thofe membersof the body , by which our loco- motive faculty is exercifed ; And in a tropical! fence, our fette . lignifieour affeetions, which are to the foule as the feet to the Pei m.°dc. i. C. boa;' ¡Whether foever we are carried our affe&ions carry us. afttas chess, When Solomon advifeth (Eccl.5. a.) Keene thy foot vrlorn th uga. eraty uara- eft to the houfe ofGod, he intends not a fuperlhitious affelation of éjt moúo a demure outward gate or bodily behaviour, but a due attention his principiam. to the motions oraffeetions of the mind; As if he had fayd,Lovke Aquin. wel with what heart yougoe to the publicke woríhip, or what moves you togoeand wor/hip. The foot, and the hand, are the two great infruments ofaetion. Yet the Foote ( which the hand Both not ) includes the anion both of the outward and inward man. We move from place to place by our outward fette, and what foever we doe freely in any place our affections hove us to thedoing of it. Ifmy foot loath hafted to deceit. Before he fpake of walking, now of hafting. To walke inti- mates the fettledneffe of our courfe , tohafte the forwardnes or gnicknefe ofit. A man that is veryhot and zealous upon abufi- neffe, doth not only walke,but run or goe apace, hemakes hafte. If my foot bath hafted to deceit; That is, to or about anyworke or set wherein I have decei- vedothers ; Deceavers are no fluggs at tht;irworke; we fay pro- verbially , Theymuff nudes ru' whom the Dr vi/I drives ; There are none more driven.by the Devill then deceavers are. if my fettehark hafted to deceit. Deceit is any fubtle, clofeor ferret way ofwronging others. Andwhen 7ob faith he had not hafted to deceit, we are not to take it as agrant, that he ufeddeceit lei Pure- ly, or , &{d it with flow pace ; but his meaning is, that he did not fo much as (titre a foot towards it, yea that he turned and hafted from it. I have (hewed thevanitieofdeceit before, Here I fhall thew the fnfullnefïe of it, Ifmyfoots bath hafted to deceit. . Hence obfcrve. all deceit sa carefuly to be avoyded. X x z Deceit
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