Cß3.3 A Comxisebtarie vponthe 614 ob(tinacieof the will ofthe Gentiles oppugned and darkened' the light eom.r.st.as. ofche mind in them, of whom Paul fpeaketh,that they knewe God,butglo- a rifiedhimnot at God. The maine obie6lions are briefly anfwered already, and we will (pend no more time in;them, but come to the fecond point or degree ofthis corruption. The feconddegree ofcorruption ofwill is, that itferueth 1ufb aid di- uerfepleafares. Sinnes are called lulls, becaufe they be indeede fo many inordinatedelires again(} the commandement. And pleafures,becaufe of the imaginationofthem that commit finne,beingcarried away with the i prefent pleafureand fweecnell'eof them. Anddiuerfepleafures, a. be- Diuerfeplea. caufe they are many in themfelues : and though euery manyeeld not fer- furea why to e,lted vice to eueryone,yet Tome ferue this, and Come char, and every wicked 2 man fome.Samfonwill be flaue to his Dalilah, in the loft of the fle(h and vncleannes: Nabal to his wealth,in the luft ofthe eie: Herod to his vaine glorie, in the (na of prideof life, a. Becaufe they diuerfly carrie men, euen as a man in the fea is carried backeward and forward, andhurryed with diners waues:for there is no flabilicienor fetledues,bet in the feare ofGod:the wicked are like the raging fea, & there is no peace to them, faith the Lord: but as flaues hauing feruedone Iuft, they mu(t prefently be at the call andcommand ofanother; and if it command, they =aft o- bey, although it call to the cleane contrarie conrfe. Z fe. t. There two degrees lead vs further into our miferie then be- fore, when we fee the will yet more rebellious then the mind was blind: and yet more then fo, that we naturally takedelight and pleafure in our bonds and chaises : what a wofull miferie is it, that men fhould be fold vnder finne, and that withconfent , yea delight ? and that which is in- deede Gnne, and inordinate luf+, fhouldbe their cheife pleafure, veto which they facrifice? whereby they become dead while they liue : nay, arenot onely taken in there dangerous faeces , but that theyweare out, and fpend themfelues in plottingand contriuing, who fhould get them- (clues deepefi and fureftin ? which Paul nocech in the phrafe of taking care tofulfill the lofts ofthe flefh. Hence is it that anumber will be rich, and rufh intomanifold fnares of thedeuïll : Others to gaine their vo- luptuoufneffe, and vncleane lufts andpleafures, goe on as an oxe to the shambles,and fpieno danger, till the dart be ftricken thorough their li- ner. Others that hassebound themfelues to fettleprentifhips among the pots, are fobewitched with the forcerie ofche (inne, as they fleep on the toppeofthe mart, and areGnitten, but they knowe not when, how, or by whom. And thus it is in other Granes, wherein although for the pre- lent, nothing but profit or pleafure appeareth, and the feruice feemeth folpewhat moreeafte then the feruiceofrighteoufne(fe; yet mark when this Ourmarrie en larged in that thewill is more rebellious then our winde was blind. Rom.i;.tq.
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