3 36 Tht deeeitfulueffe of Mans heart. Pepe rogare fo. les qualis fm Prife futur us, fi dam ilocuptes, Ûe. D.cm+biJi fas era Lee, qua - !_s eris ? Marc. that being asked what they would bee, if they had abundance of riches and honours, they might truly returne that anfwere, Tell me if thoss welt Lyons , trhat wouldefi thou he ? which in etFe& is as much as to fay , that they would be as cruel as the Lyov.T his is an evident difcovery ofa corrupt heart. Now as the enjoyment, Co alto the poffibility and hope of enjoying thefe outward profits and plea lures, is no (mall tryall. Many can no fooner heare fweet words and flattering promifes of prefer-. ment and promotion , as it were the melody of Nebuchadnezzarsinfiruments ,but overcome there- with,they prefently fall down, and w.otfhip the 13a- bylonifh Idoli. & as, though he had continued a while in futfering with Paul, yet. when the world, like a firumpet , prefented her felfe in all her glory co his eye, bewitched with her beauty, he left Paul and the hopes of the world to come, and embraced this prefent world. Mo fis contrarily , though hee might eat-11y have advanced himfelfe, being the adopted fonne of the King of .Ægypts daughter; yet he relinquifhed all his hopes in the Court and t- orfook all his poflibilities of perferment, and clave co the afiliaed Church of God. Among the ma- ny grievous trials ófthofe Worthies in the Old Te. foment , it is worth the marking, how the Apofile hath joyned together the trial! by the offer of pro - íperity, with the foreft trials of perfecution. They z)-ere finned, they mere heaven afirnder, they were temp. teed, they were flain with the fword: Lo, how the A-f polite rankes the ten ;pting and alluring wores1 of the adverfäries, promifing the Martyrs if they would z Tim. 4. Hcr. LI, 37.
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