The deceitfalnef o frams heart. 253 body in regard ofhim. But afterward this her fonne, on whom the fo much doted, proved a very thorns in her fide, and prick in her eye. So concerning El- kanah; it is noted that hee loved Hannah more than his other wife , promifing no doubt greater matter ofcomfort to himfelfe in her,than in the other.But what followed He loved her, faith the prophet,and the Lordmade her barren. Mark the conjunction of his loving her, and Gods making o f her barren. So shall it bee in all such earthly creatures, whereunto we cleave inordínately,falCelypromifing joy to our elves in their ufe : God in his just judgement (hall make them barren,fo that they (hall not yeeld us a quarter ofthat"comfort,orbenefit, which we expe. ded. The rich foole he pronaifed himfelfe a little heaven in his riches : Soule;take thine eafe. &c, But alas how Toone didGod di f afe him ?ofoole this night all they take away thyfotrle,and then where i3 thine eaf ? The reafon ofthis deceit is, for that we,in our expdìation of thefe outward things, before they come, appehend only the good, and the (weer, ab- ftraaed from the fower, the pleasure divided from the paine : but,in the fruition, wee feele both, . yea more cfthe lower than of the fweet. And hence it comes to paffe, that nothing pleafeth us fo well in thefruition,as in the expellation. Nay, nothing al- molt which pleasures us when hoped for, but does more difple:; fe us when had. Nothing I meane of theft femoral!, whereof now we fpeak. For as for eternal!, they are more loved of us, when pofffid, then when de /red. For it is impo(lìble for any man to imagine, orconceive of a greater happineffe than that t If any would rather have, And) in this place to be a rationall par. tick, {hewing that he there- fore loved his wife becaufe of her crolácrn barrel-metre. craving his pitty; Iftrive ,lot. Lukaz,r9,zo. Nihil.equè a- deptis ea con - cupifentibus gratum. Plis'. kibe mertri optavimue, ubi meruerimras ab- dicamus. Amb.
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