The deceit ftlnefe of Mans heart. Dz9 of the world, and fuch like corruptions, as he {hall finde and feele experience in the day of aftûon. Therefore doth lames call afiCtions , temptations, becaufe they ferve to try us what is in us,and to dif cover the hidden corruption of our hearts. As Mofes celleth the I4raelites,God therefore humbled them with want, to prove them, and to know what was in them , that is, to make known. Here was the tryall of Abrahams found heart, when God laid that cro{Te upon him , that grievous commande- ment of killing his only Son with his own hands; Nozp 1 know,faith G od ,t ho is fearefi me that is, as All- flex expounds it : Now I have made it known : For God h laid to know,when he makes us to know: and in fuch fpeeches, he tels us of his own working of knowledge in us,noc of his own knowledge. So we fay a joy fi li day and fad weather, only becaufe of the effehs in us. For did not God know before that A- braham feared him ? yes well enough. But Abraham did not know it before fo clearely & certainly ; For by meanes of this tryall he came to know himfelfe. For ufually man thinker)] he can doe that which in- deed he cannot, And contrarily : It is then as if God fhould have laid : Now have I made the wor °d and thine own conlcience know thou feared me : Now I have given thee a thorow tryall of the integrieie of thine own heart. Here alto was the tryall of lobs good hearr.Though in his prolperi y he had rriallof is by his many good works, wherein he was as rich, as In his ocher riches, yet wee fee how flanderou fly the Divell impeached it as mercenary 'both lob ferve God for nought? Therefore that he might have a Iamcs 5.3. Ueut.8.s. In Pfa1:44. Di- cit libi innotef- cere quod facit tibi innotefeere; Opus (ions tibi duit, son c ogni - tionem fuam.Dt- cimue p!erumq, latus di:squan- do ferenus nunqutd tp(e dies gaudet? fed gaudentem dtcimus quia gaudentes nos facie. Sic & dens tognofcere dicituw panda cogno(centes nos facit. Dicit ad Abr. Nunc cog nov;;4ntea -non cognoveret ? 1 ipfe Abr. antes non cognovit, guslt i(f. tenta. iioneipfefibi in- notecit; plerum4 enim putatihame tepo(/e, quod non petoli,&c.
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