27a z Satn.7.17. cleared by Au(ten. Dixit fe inveni- re cer fuum pap' foleret fu- sere, ér ille fe- qui qrtafi fugi- távrara,'¢r non eoireprehendere, & clamare, ae. Pfa1.3E. III. Deceit, fecrct foifting in of corrupti- on into good anions. The deceit fislnelle of Mans heart. cc thy lervant hath found his heart to pray unto " thee. Loe, he faies that he found his heart,as though his heart were wont to file array from h m,aud he fain to run after this fugitive , and being not able to catch it hianfelf ,to cry to the Lord,my heart bath left me.S ; farre Aufine excellently letting forth this deceitful- neffe of our heart. Would we not count him a de- ceitful! friend, who when wee fhould have greatefl ufe of him,would then be Cure to be out of the way? Alike deceitfull mull' our hearts needs be, the chie- feft inftrument wherewith we are to Cerve theLord-, And yet when Gods fervice is to be performed of us, our hearts are then to finde, they have runne a- way from us, and fo, when we fhould Peek God; we mnft firft goe leek our (elves. The thirddeceit is, when our hearts doe privily, and fecretly, wee fcarce perceiving it, foift in, and clofely convay force corruption into our good anions, even, then , when we zre in the very a& of performance. And with this deceit are even the children of God themfelves exceedingly troubled. For howloever they propound not to themfelves any of thtfe by and bate refpets of praife , and vaine glory, &c. in their good anions, but rather do fet themfelves againft them ; yet thefe things doe come in by ftealth, and (lily infinuate, and winde in themfelves into their hearts , as once the ferpent into the Garden. So fitly ín this regard doth the Prophet call our heart deceitfull, in that word, in the original i, from whence 1u. cb had his name be- -aufe ou flefhly hearts doe the fame thing to the f oirit, in doing of good, which Iacob did to his bro- ther
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