4.10 Sinne `seueratten- On the Fryday after dcd on by Shame. o Sinneatone time orother growesioath- come through f"""`' Worldly plea. fires wherun- to compared. 'monlycalleth Idolatrie, Fornication. Saint Ambrofe treating ofPeters mother in lawesburning fits of her Feauer,faith,Fortaffe in typemulieria illiva,caronoîira languebat varjjs criminumfebribue , Pereduenturein thefi&ure ofthat woman our ieJhlanguifhethvnder the Feauersofdiners crimes. It maylikewifebefaid, That it was a faampeof this old woman,who was all this whilein a hot burning Fea- uer. When Abimeleckefell inlouewith Sáraah, fomemake her to bee ninetie yearesofage ; when Parts(tole awayHelena, fhe was fiftieyearesof age andvp- wards; In that Seavoyageof the Argonauts, wherein went CaflorandPollux her brethren, f is wasabout fome twentieyeares ofage ; and from that timeto the deflrufkion of Troy,Theodoret puts thirtieyeares, and Eufebisas ninetie. So that according to oneaccount the muff be fiftie, and according to the other,anhun- dred and ten : andyet notwithflanding all this thee wasmarried afterwardsto Deiphæbuo, Thefeus hauing flolne herawaythe fecond time. tftodore faith,That aged difhoneftie is the fweeteftand the hardeft to be left off. But becaufe many times thetyring ofour felues out with finne, makes vs to growwearie thereof, andat length to loath it , andvtterly leaue it off; God is woont to dealewith Sinners as Fifhers doe with their Fifh, who giuc them line enough till the poore fooles haue played themfelues wearie,and thenwill eafily land them where theylift. Et qua nonpuduitferre, tulifpudet , faithouid. I was not thenafhamedwhen I did the fin, but I hadno fooner done it but I was a(hamed.They haue painted the godofLoue with Torchesandwith Wings-,to thew, That there is atime wherein thefepleating delights doe flame out-right invs ; andatime againe wherein theybetake themto their wings,and fl ie away from vs , and are neuer feene againe. Dauid, as it werebywayofhyperbole, faid of aSinner, Aflititomni via nonbona,malitiamastern non ediuit ; It is an ordi- narie thing withmolt men to loath finne at lafl,and to fallinto adiflike thereof: Sodid Salemon,who after foplentifullaharuell, fuch a fulneffe ofpleafures as he had, yet cryedoutat laft, Panitaavanitatum, & omnia vanitaa. Dated like- wife faith inanotherplace,Non efl timer Deiante ocalo.' Liza ; hepaints fortha fin- ner that hathcaft behindhis backe the feareofGod,and the fhameofthe world, andhath fowholly deliueredhimfelfe vp to all manner of delights, that hee comes at laic to abhorre his owne wickedneffe. (Moles Varceraa in his Booke whichhemadeof Paradice, faith, Thatwhen Eue had eatenof the forbidden Fruit, it feemed then as loathfomeand vnfauorie vnto her, as beforethee ra- fted it,itappeared fweet and pleafant to the palate. SaintAuguiline reporteth in his Confe:Pons, That the Diuineprouidence did dcferrehis Conuerfion many dayes,as if it had beene neceflarie for the cleering of his errour, that heefhould liea little longer in the mire ofhis finnes,, uafsneceffeeft adhucSordidare. And the reafon of this truth is, That worldlyplealures haue a faire thew and afweet appearance ; but ifaman bedrowned inthem,and come once tothe lees, there isnot anyRododaphne morebitter: they fhine & giuea light at the firfl like light- ning, but anon after theyleaue vs ina morethan 'Egyptiandarkneffe.Thisfence may begiuen to that place ofMicah, where treatingofhis people, hefaith, Ad Babylonem venies, & ibifaluaberia, Thou_halt comevntoBabylon,andthere thou(halt befaued. And to that which Salomonhath, Tmpiva, cumadprofundumpeccatorum veniet,contemnet, The Wicked when bee comes to the depth of Sinne, bee _hall con- temne it. The Difiiples didwonder tofee him talkeallalone withawoman; Thoughnineof them didaske himwhat hemade with her.And hadhe notbeene as wel God as man
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