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78 That worldly wifedome and policie is to be contemned. Cher it refs; ieth,orere wholly defrf eth ; it maybe de. rayed, that it may ceafè to be, but it cannot be kept wider that it /bould obey; &c. 4.Sel1.8. Secondly,whereas Satan is the father oflies,and the chief w,rlruywife. author of difflmulacion, trecherie and treafon; this worldly domeooynrd wifedom is a compounded monfter of all this hellifhbrood. with lr:n and For who leech nor that worldly politicians doc fo accuflome 'month. their tonguesto fpeake vntruths,that lying may feeme to be their naturali language, feeing they fpeake it with loch fa. cilitie ?that they plaice a great part of their policie,in naa- king their tongues and hearts fo to differ the one from the other, that a man by their fpeeches (hall ieafl of all geffe at their meanings? and were it not that like the diuell their fchoolemafier,they did in policie fometimes fpeake truth, that they may y better gaine credit whë they lic,youmight as well know the meaning of their words by a Di6tionarie of contrarietie,as by that which naturally they feeme to fig - nüie. Finally, that they account him but an heauie headed fellow,and little better then a foole, who is open hearted, and fpeakcch as hee thinketh. Wherein what doe they elfe butperuert the courfe of nature, and ioynewiththediuell againfl God? for whereas hee bath purpofely made the tongue to bee the interpreter of the mincie and heart, they make it to deliuer their meanings as. it were in an vnknowne language which cannot bee vnderflood, and to glue darke riddles in ficad of plaine rcfolutions? and what doe they elfe hereby but proclaime, that their wifedome is not the wifedome of God, feeing her month ffieaketh the truth, and her lips abhorre : 'ickZedneffe,bur the wifedome ofthe old Ser- pent, who being oppofed vnto God, taketh delight in lies and falfehood? §.Seîi`.g. So alto they ground their policies vpon diflimulation,de- Worldly wife- ceit and fraud, which haue great afînitie with the former, dome grounded and are able to doe little without her helpe. And hereby vpon drAmala- they make faire weather, when they intend a forme (hall tien and deceit. follow,they carrie two faces vnder one hood,making Phew ofloue where they mortally hate,& mile vpon thofe whom they deft= to kill, like their predeceffor Laub, who fiabbefl d while lro.8.7.8 ;