The deceitfulneffe of rmans heart. 187 we count the greater. For in the greater we lòoger come to the fight of them, and fo to,repentance for them:whereas in the letter. we not difcerning them, through this deceicfulnetí'e ofheart, to be finnes at ,all, goe on in them, without repentance, and fo through irf epentance in the Idler , lie open to that danger, which by repentance., wee happily escaped in the greater. 2, Befides this, there is also another deceit, that From there if we will yeeld to this little, we {hall no further be little ones to importuned for any more. For howfoever the be- br1a us co grea ginnings of fin are very sawJefl,.rnd maiden -like and r. the auggard craves but a little fleep,but a little Jim - c °xfef t ge s ber,'as Areflinin his first converfion : yet fin is osan r fponde cmn p incroachi. g nature, like the Rivers, fmall at the first tantum verba riling, yet fpreads and inlarges it felfe in going /enta,& fornno- g ` i as lerra,m ^dòrcce a gangrene, it creepes on by degrees, from one parr modo, fine pats- to another , till in the end is have confirmed the tu!unt: Sethn:- whoie. So that grant it bu t a little, and this little modo non will quickly come to a great deale : Give it but an daY,,aa6 fine inch,and it will take anal. Let the Serpent but wind eat: ion That in his head, and he will draw his whole body after. Ln to,,gitm. When the Levites Father in Law had drawne him to flay till nonne, he drew him on further to fray all niht,yea,and till towards the even of the next day, Indgei a9. IF he had named the whole time at full, and prayed him to have flayed two days s longer, he had never obtained it : But at firfi, craving onell ha.lfe a day, he comes at length to get two dayes. 1 t our hearts should demand all that they will brig u: to in the end, they would never be heard ; but Through their decei fall modefiy ofa,king but a lit- tle .
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