546 tCha4.6, ádaFacis..:'. of Comment,tria wpm deluded with fuchvaine excufes : therefore take heed left in going about todeceiue them, you deceiue your felues : for lookc how you dealewith them, God will deale withyou : & with what nreafureyou meteunto them, the famehe will rnea- lure to you againe; fir 44you fovve, fo Jh.e11you reap. So that in there words the Apofile doth fiunmarily comprife there three things. Fill}, adiff'edafionfrom this their vainerea- foning,and wickedpraflire, laiddowneby wayofprcucntion, Benot deceived. Secondly,a reafonof the dcliortation,fhewing that thefe theirexcufes arc but friuolousand vaine, God íi net t6 mocked. Thirdly, a confirmation or proo`'eof his former rea- fon,for whatfoesteraman h,thatfba11he reape. ThedifFva- ion is laiddowne in click words . Be not deceived . The lake phrafcof fpecchwe haue in fundry other places, as in that ad- uertirement which Hczekiah giueth the Leuites. 2.Chron. i9. t 5 I I. Now oni f nnes benot dectirteá And Paul the Corinthians . it. Cor. 6. 9. be not deceived, neitherforme ttorr,&c, i . Cor. i ï- 3 3. be not deceived , euill /peeches corrupt good manners. Now men erre and are deceived fundry wales, both in diuine and humane things (which appertainenot to this place.) Touch- 20 ing the deceit here mentioned, we are to know that aman may be deceiued and that by hitnfelfe two wales, Firfi, through ig norance,iniudgingthatto be no thine, which is a Panne, as when a man is perfwaded that God is to be worfhipped in an image: that when he perfecutes the faints ofGod,hcdothGod 2g goodferuice. Secondly, when men arc fo wickedly wilifull, that they wittingly deceiue theanfelues, in thinking they can deceiue godhimfelfe, and fo cunningly handlethe matter that he (ball not know their words,nor fee their works, nor vnder- fland their thoughts: that whether theydo good or mill, glue 30 to theminif}ery,or not;liue according to the flefl'i,or according 'to the fpirit,it is all one,feeing he confidereth it not,and fo pro. mile to thewfclues impunity, though they finite willingly, as Eue did in putting a peraduenture, where Gods threat was peremptoric. Both tilde forts of deceit archere vnderfiood, 3s fpccially the latter. Vfe. Hencewemay obferue thedeceitfulnesof linne,which maketh men thinke all iswell with them, and that there is no dander,&c. when thecafe isfarre otherwife. This fhewes that the heartofroato it doceitfivlla6sue ¡fs fuorc (as the Prophet faith) who
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