The deceitfielnli of Mans heart. even wooed them tobe one by giving them then precious jewels, ( hould yet within lo w h ures, on the fudden runne after them , ro recover them againe into their hands as before ? So for joy and Corrow wee may fee the like varieties and changes. toner that to day is the only merry man, while the gourd flourífheth, to morrow when it perifherh , none Co penfive or perplexed as he. This deceit of our affections is mod' dangerous in the matter of religion; when wee begin to wax cold, having been once zealous, and to eat up that zeale of Gods houle, which was wont to eat up us. Thus was it with Ephefes, charged by Chrift with Revel, s.4. the Joffe of her love ; and with the Gatathiaas, that at the first were Co fervent in their affections, that they could have found in their hearts to have G plucked out their eyes for him, yet afterward were a1.4,ts. more ready to pluck out his eyes. Thus allo fared it with the Jewes, who a: the Grdt fol :owed, and flocked after the.Baptift, and rejoyced in his light, to(,n.g 3i but yet for afeafon onely:Iohn quickly grew {tale to them, and as our Saviour infinuates, no more ac- counted of,than a reedfhaken with the mind. And tisatth.rr.,. would to God the cafe were not alike with too ma ny in there our dayes. The fecond thing wherein our affecuions (hew themfelves deceitfvll, is the blinding and cor- o of dg Ev e. rup:ing of our judgement. Thele are our es, that doe deceive us. Adam , faith the Apoftle, n,af ment. m.z.14. not deceived, that is, fo much by his judgement, ( though alto by that too) as by hs aff< &ion to hi wife, which at length blinded his judgement. True. 3 is ----._..
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