The deeeitf rlNeffe of Mans heart. 0 3 3 S are as it were benurnmed, and frozen in men with the cold of poverty, obfcurity, and other Inch Iike pinching trotfes. Their wickedneffe is an unfolded, an implicite wickedneffe, like fome peftilejit fruit in the bind, or bird in the (hell. But let the heart, the warmth,the fun- fhine of honour, riches, autho- rity, once open a way to their wickedneffe,and fur nifh them with meanes and occafions of doing wicks dly, and then they will unfold their naugh rineffè at large, and fully (hew themfelves what they are. What an humble man was sarsl before he was King, and in the first beginnings ofthe King- dome ? but afterward being confirmed in his King. dome,what a tyrant proved he ? Therefore,it is (aid that saul raigned but two yeeres, becauCe alter the two first yeeres , though bee held the govern- ment {till in his hands , his deceitful) heart was dif- covered, and hee did no longer raign, but tyran- nize. So was it with Nero alfo,for the first five yeers, whom rule and domination difcovered to be a ve- ry monfter of nature. So truly it is Paid , that in place-of rule and government , a an may quickly the himfelfe what he is. Strong drink tryeth the brain ; an-1 hard meat the ftomack. When wee cannot drink of the wine of outward felicity, but we grow drunken and giddy - headed, and begin to play reakes, it is a figne wee have weak braines. vA hen. we know not how to digeft our felicity, but it cauleth a kind of windinceffe, a riling and fwel- ling of pride and ambition in our minds, this ar- gueth exceeding great imbecillity And furely, thus it is with moft. They are offuch a difpoficion, that quam illo que cum rtelicitas aparuit. iniru- menta Mir expli cauda negrailie defunt frc tastò fe: pens , etiatn pe (lifera,traeia- tur dom regime `rigore; non de- fant slíi venen i. Sic torpe;n m el- ro -12 cri,delitas, am/ntio, llaxlt. ria ut paria pe/fimus andent, fo tune favore e/ficitur. Fadem vel!!e,eor coenof. ces ,non pole quantum vo- lui.tSen.Epi¢, 41. t Sam.13,.r. Maziflrat¡ea indicar virons. zór ó>,Cor xca- 7c67rÆsl.sGr. I ind.
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