The deeeitfielsefe of Maur heart. I deny him as a dead man, whom before thou con - fe(fedit as the living Sonne of God ? To this place belongeth that ufuall deceit,where- by wee fecretly promife to the Lord the doing of this or that when our prefent eßate (hall be chan- ged. Oh ! if I were thus and thus,I would doe fo and Co. If I were King , faith Rb folom, I would f e jsfiice done to every man, Think we he would have been as good as bis word , if ever he had been King? A(l'u- redly none would have been more tyrannical!. If I were a rich man, faith one,O how liberall,how free - hearted would I bee ! God haply lets him have bir m fh, but he lets not God have hispromife. Godi giveth riches to him, but he no liberality toGod.Nay when he is become rich, hee is more unjufi,niggird- ly fcraping,than chore of whom he complained be- fore, when he was poore. Thus young men think with themfelves when they come to be old, they will not offend in thofe faults wherein they fee age fo much over - taken,as frowardnes,morofitie,impa- tiencie,contempt ofyouth, &c. Vnmarried perlons think, when they are once married ,they (hall live Co lovingly,and comfortably,and be quite free from all thofe faults which they Cee married folk to of- fend in. Men without children, if once they might come to have children, O, the duties they would performe, the care of godly education they would have ! Private men, If they were in places ofgo- vernmenc, O,the wonders that they then would do! And in every fate an i condition, whatfoever want wee fee in others , wee dare promife touching our (elves a freedome from it, if we were in it. But we S a know 359 Or on condi- tion ofgctting thisor that.
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