The deceit fie/tulle o f runs heart. (though whr_tt he went about to íteale his Venifon ptomiCed much mirth and cheere to himfelf, yet he comes fhort of his reckoning) he fhald not fo mî ch as roll that he tool¿ in the tenting. In covetoufneffe what happine(fe doth the heart prorrrife it (elfe in gaine,though never fo unlawful] ,and unrighteous? But how deceitfully ,.many examples can witneffe. What got LA'n.rnias and Sap dirah, by reCerving to themfeives facrilegiottíly the Churches.g©ods 5 but a fhamefull and ignominious death ? No more did Balaam, when hope of gaine, and the large promi(es of the King made him blindly and boldly rufh upon the Angels (word ;Whence the Scripture u(eth char phraCe ofthe Deceit of Ealaarns reages. What got Ge- rude are hezi by taking up that good model), as he th ;tlgbr, which his Mafler fo unwireiy in hie conceit, let gor befide hit 'ips ? nothing but a leprofe. Died not A, chaps E-aFnjlonifh garment bring the atones about his eares? and lidos thirty pieces of filver the halter about his neck? EKcellentlysolot/aon,The breadofde ceit feemes pleafant to a essau, but afterward his moth is fzled with graved. There are fume meats, which are very pleaíant in the mouth, & it is delight full tr hold, and roule them there, but after once they are (wallowed down, with the tifh, we feele the hook flicking in our itwes; being in the ffomack they :make us wondrous fick, fo that we cannot be well till the ftomack have difgorged it Celfe. This is the f cniiitude w herby Zophar in lob doth molt elegant- ly reprefent unto us the deceitfulneffe of that plea fure,the covetous prom3Ce themfelves in the ;*ain of ;uurightcournet,e.Wickedne was feet its her mouth an,7 249
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