The deceit fultsef o f many heart. CHAP. XXII. Of eight more deceits in the fame if rde. O goe yet forwards in there deceits; The v.Deceir,fli. fifthis,when our hearts caute us to degene- ding from che rate from the meane to the extreame,fpece- mane to an ally that which hath greateft reCemblance with the exrreame, meane. Wherein our hearts deale with us, as the Devil would have dealt with our Sav our,when up- on occafion of his firong faith in his Fathers provi- dence, which hee had (hewed in refifting his firft temptation, chufing rather to live by his faith in want Of bread, than upon his motion to command the ftones to be made bread when, I fay, upon this occafion,he would have cunniaglybrought him on,: in his fecond temptation,to prefumption incafting himfelfe down headlong from the top of the Pina- cle, as being an a &ion which would carry a great colour of avery frong faith indeed. Peter having made a notable profeflion of his faith, Thou art the Chrift,the for; of the living God, and being therefore much commended by our Saviour, prefently there- upon took occafion to fall from the true bole/tamof faith,to the fartcineffe of prefrmption,in advifing his Mailer to decline the croffe,whereupon the falvati- on ofall the eleá depended. So like wife, from j aft and lawfull zeal,how eafily through this deceitful - nefl"e do we ftray intoblind boldoefs,and unadvifed- neffe ? as the common people of their own heads throwing down images, and the Brownifts as they call 28I
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