11, 274 The deceitf treffeof mans heart. Tim. S. s. iv7ráQk1 CLy- vtié.a. nPfál. fo. Palicieret Ant qui auáiunt, c. ers, watching the times when hr nett men are to go to Come folemniry of feafting , craftily thruft in rhemlelves, the t they may filch fomething away : Co where Grace is to employ her Celle, Corruption will be fure to have an oars in this boat, and to in- tcre ít i Celle in the good a &ion, that it may by this meaner fteale away the beft part of our comfort therein : As in the love of grace and vertue in good women, it comes fometimes to paffe, that the im- pure, and filthy love of luft and concupifcence, by certaine juggling feats of conveyance, cogges in it IdIle. Therefore S. Pahl writing toTimothy,a man rarely mortified, biddeth him yet to exhort younger women with pnrene, or cbaffdy becaufe through the deceitfulneffe of his heart, even then, whilft he was exhorting them to chaftity, Come unchafte motions might come creeping into his owne heart, and fteale upon him unawares. And fo in preaching, while the Minifter is ftirring up others to the zeale of Gods glory, through this de- ceitfulneífe of heart, it comes to paffe too often, that thoughts of pride and vaine -glory poppe in themfelves, to defile and deface the glory of the work. In which regard AìJline faies, that it is har- der to preach holly, than to heare, writing upon that of David; Thou fhalt mi%e me to heare the voyce of joy and gladnef ; which he reades forne- thing otherwife, thus : Thou fhalt give joy to ply "bearing. Whereupon he thus writeth: The hea- " rers of the word are more happy than the fpea,. cr kers. The learned hearer may be humble; but " the fpeaker, he muff ftrive agair,ft pride, and the "delire
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