s;2 I V.I3eceir, remembrance of the good we have done. PhiL 3.. Ga1, 60 The deceitfxrl oeffe of Maas hem. heritance,and paffeth it over to him. Lo, then what a ftrange deceit this is,for our hearts to make us be- lieve that to be an argument of Gods deceiving us . which is fo cleare an evidence of his faithfulneffejf now wee were told only of pleafures and delights, wee might fufpea deceit,and feare there would bee none in the end :. But now hearing nothing but of the Croffe, of Gall and Wormwood , wee may the more perfwadedly afire our felves, that the Wine and Honey will come, and that beginning with the doleful! darkneffe of the night, we fhall end in the joyfull light of the day. Where joy hath the begin- ning, there feare of griefe makes our joy grievous; where griefe, there hope of joy makes our griefe jgyfull. :Theforsrthis,fromthe remembrance cifthat good which we have already done: Whereupon we falily inferre that wee may now fit down, and reft us a while, as having done enough for our parts. This feemes to -have been !dues deceit : Hee thought it enough hee had deftroyed Ahab his poftericie and Idols:He thought this a great matter;and therefore that the doing ofthis might well excufe him,for the not deftroying of lereboamf Calves : But Paul had done farre rnore,and yet forgar that which was paft, and Rill preffed towards the Mark, notwithftanding bee had fo happily combated with his corruption , that he could fay, I am crucified to the tvorld,and the reorldto me, yet bee ftíll continued beatirrg don's his body: So Timothy, though a rare man for mortifica- tion, yet continued Bill in the ufe of Inch revere abftinence, that Paul was faine to flay him, and bid him
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