The deceit f ulnej of Mans butt. 25 I then there inchanting tongs and faire promu es; We !hall (Mart for our credultie afterward. Sinne that dOS7gy('tum lay quiet before, like a fleepingdog, will afterward ca-at. Inch c awake, and (lye in our throars,and ofa friendly per- amp! taitnt. fwader, it will turn a moff vehement acculer. The SeñE ¡> Sz. promiCed pleafure than vani(h with the very ai of .Perfela demo n the finne, and then comes the sting of the guilt. A f fóerere > ed. ns ter the finis throughly done , (hall we perceive the ntel aga ur. hainoufneffe thereof. Taen. 11. We deceitfully promife to our (elves the en.. joyment of many outward bi' flings, whin yet wee of Bono va d ` never get. Thus saul promifed himiklfe victory ' things. over David, being fhut up inKeiljh :The Lord, faith z Sam.1.3.7. hee, bath delivered bi`ninto my hand. So alío did the Jebufites triumph againft . -Oavid,as though they had 2. Sam, t.. been Cure enough for ever being overcome by him. This deceit we may fee in the craking of Gollob, and Senacharib, who had in their prefurning hope , got the vidory of their adverfaries before the confill, and fo putting on the harnetfe, gloried as thole that put it off : And we may eafily difcerne it in our ['elves , who too too eafily believing fuch things as we delire fhould come to paffe, doe often make our felves fure of them , when yet in the end we come fhort of them. Herein deceiving our felves, as the Devil! would have deceived our Saviour : 411 things will Igive thee,Caith he,which yet were not in his power to give : No more are any of the leaft of theft things in our hands which we fo confidently allure to our felves.And therefore to this deceir,op- pofe we Solomon." counrel Boaji not of to morrow, for thou knocv;J1 not n'heit a day Inv bring forth.. Many things.
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