The deceitfulne of Mimt haart. tranfient, the pleafure eternally permanent. Now that in obedience,firft thou heareft and fee left of the worm , and the better is refèrved for the time to come; this ought the rather to hearten thee thereunto; as being an argument that there is no deceit which here thou needett to £eare. For where deceit is meant,there the beft things that may tickle and tempt us, are {hewed, the word are concealed till afterward : As for example, thofe that fteale a- way children, doe not tell Them ofrods and ¡tripes, but of plummes,,pples , rakes, babies, hobbie-hor- fes,and fuch like knacks, that ufe to pleafe children; And then having thuscaught them, the poore chil- dren afterward feele much woe and miferie : fo in catching of birds and fifhes, their daily food that they delight in,is £hewed them,the flare, the hook they feele afterward : And thus do our hearts,as we fhewed,deceive us, in perfwading us to finne, by ob- jeëting to our fenfes the pleafurable delights therof, not telling us ofthe after - claps. But now in obedi- ence, the word of God firft tels us ofthe grief, then of the glory, first of the labour, then of the reward; firft of the teares, thatip the wipinghandkercher; firft ofthe rice, than otthegarland; firft ofthefight, then of the kingdeme. is Dot this plain dealing,to let us know the wort bcföre'band ?Doth not God here- in deale as a Father with his childe ? And will a Fa- ther cozen and circumvent his own childe ?i No, And yet firft,in his childhood, he tels him of the fe- vere School-mafter, of the fwindging rods , of the hard feruler,and of Inch like terrible things : After- ward, when he comes to age, he tels him of his in- Q4- heri- Ory/.hem.t 6. ad poparit.
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