26;2 Deut;S.:g. Pfal.78.57. explained. The deceitfurhzeJ of Mans heart. foure dayes, whiles the, execution was, but after when the rage was fomewhat fwaged, then retur- ned they to their vomit,worfe than ever they were. Then that they had before caufed to bee reffored and given in aimes , they Peek to recover by more evill devouring cheviCaunles. This deceitfulneffe God noreth in the Ifraelites , who being humbled with the terrors ofthe Law,pr®mifed very largely: all thefethingt will we do. But what laid GodO that there nacre filcha heart! namely, as in this fo liberali and frank a promife of obedience they make (how of, and at this time think indeed they have. For now wee Cpeak of fuch a kinde of deceitfulneffe , whereby we deceive our felves as well as others. We are not to think there Ifraelites did grnffely diffemble with God: but at that time,being in fome diftreffe, they fpake as they thought, and meant to doe.But by reafon their hearts were not throughly purged, and renewed, it was only a fudden fit for the time, afterwards their hearts returning to their old bias , theywere notable to perform that which they promired. This the Scripture would teach , when it faith,their heartsflarted Ode like a deceitfiald bow. When a man (hoots with a deceitfull bow , thc ugh bee level] his arrow and his eye directly to the marke, and think with himfelfe to hit ir, yet in- deed the arrow , by reafon of his deceitfull bow, . goes a clean contrary way. Anfwerable to this bow is ourtiheart, to the arrow the delires, purpofes, and promires, wee conceive, andmake in our affïiaions. The marke we ayme at is repentance: to the which wee then look with fo accurate and attentive an eye-
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