280 I Thedeeeitfatlneffe ofMans heart. 24- 7.4:-C ;`w43 _ CH A P. XXIII. Of the deceit of our Af R'ions in genera/1, ftherto wee have fpoken of that deceitful - Deceit of AC ? hl `' nes of heat; which is jointly in the minds , feetionealone. and affeftions : it reraineth now, that wee {peak of that deceitfulnefTe of the affeaions,ój them fives.' w here first, we will fpeak of their deceit in general], and then fecondly in fpeciall, of the deceit of forne fpeciall afFc1ions. The deceit of the affeecions in general], lhewes it General], in felfe in two things. their I in that they are of fo variable & mutable a dill t Vatiablenes. pofition,that the face ofthe heavens is not fo divers, nor the fea,or weather,fo inconftant,nor the Came - lion fo changeable as they. Nothing is there fo un ftaied, nothing fo uncertain ; not only changed this day from yefterday; but this houre,yea,this moment from the former. Hence that of Solomon No wan Ectlefg.t.Inter knoweth love or hatred , that is, as luni:rs expounds preted. it,the thing either he loves or hates,by reafon ofthis fickleneffe of our foeafily alterable affettions.Who would kave thought , that Amnon,' fo hot affeeti- on to his Sifter, could ever have beene cooled? Yet for all that,prefently after his luft was fatisfied, his hatred of her exceeded his former love. Who would have thought that the Jewes, that cryed Ho- fanne toChrif,would after have cry edf o foone,cru- cifre,crucifie ? Who would have thought the Ægyp- fo defiro:is of ehelfraelices deparcure,that they even
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