.334 14.1u!torum quia obecilta fans, atent vitia: ron /r anus aufiira cum i' lis vires pee placurrirt, The eleceit fielne fie ä f 214wi heart. eeiting of him ro be the Ple fsiah.. f Paul and Hansa_ bas alío , ftanding out both egah fi the prepofle- tous alfe &ion of the Lycaoniarss when they would have Deified them, and againft their divellifh rage, when they would have (toned them. In Daniel i k: - wife, whom neither the Lyo, s dent] e, not the Kings favours and honours could any whit corrupr.Gcod gold put it into the fire, and there it will be purged and refined : into the water, and there likewiíe it will (hire brighter. So a good man , when he is in ,he.furnace ofaffliion,there he will leave much of his droffe behinde him : and when he flourifheth in outward ble flings, they, together w th his inward graces, (hall be as a jeweli hung upon a golden e.aring; he will verifie Salmons Proverb, The crow ofecife men is their riches. But the unfound Ghri. il:ian is like to clay. It will quickly bee fcorch'ed, and dried up in the fire ; and it will Toone melt a way and bee diffolved in water. As afflifion would difcover his infidelity , diftruft in God, im- patience, rebellion, &c. Co a profperous and flou- riffling eftate will bewray his prideginfolency, con - empt of, and cruelty againft his poore brethren , betides his wantonneflle, voluptuoufneffe, unclean - nell'e; all which lay fmothered in afflifrion, like as j poylon doth in the Sn , while he is henummed with cold : Let a man handle a Snake then,and bee (hall not feele his fling ; fo one would think it were a harmeleffe creature: but bring him to the fire, and then touch him when he is well warmed nd t hou (halt know he bath a fling : So oftentimes many corruptions, as cruelty , ambition , lueury, are
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