A box of precious Ointment : Or, malice, worldlinefs, pride, envy,&c. Like window cufhions,. made up of velvet and richly embroydered, but fluffil :vithin with hay. An Hypocrite may offer facriLce with Cain, and fait with jetabei ; and humble himfelf with Ahab, and lament with the tears of Efam; and kifs Chrift with fay ad, and .fol, low Chrift with Dem& ; and offer fair for the holy Ghat with Simon Magus, and yet for all this his infide as bad as any of theirs. An Hypocriteis a Cute w4hout, and a Nero with ; a Jacob without, and an Efiu within; a David withcut, and a Said within ; a Peter without, and a Judi within ; a saint without, and a Satan within ; an Angel without, and a Devil within.An Hypocrit is a Jew outwardly,but an Atheift, a Pagan, a Turk inwardly. I have read of certain Images, which on the outfide were covered with gold and pearl, re- fembling Jupiter and Neptune, 'but within were nothing but fpiders and cobwebs ; a fit refemblance of Hypocrites. Fly- pocrifie is but an ,outfide, like cloth of e"trries, fair and beautiful without; but if you look to the infide, you chaff I 'find nothing but rags and ends. That Monk hit it, that faid, To be ,a Monk in outward 'hew was eafie, but to be a Monk in inward reality was 'hard. To be a Chriflian in outward I thew is eafie, but to be a Chriftian inwardly and really. is I very hard. An Hypocrites infide never ecco s or anfwers to. his.outfide ; 'his infide is vicious, and his outfide is Religious : ' But let all fuch hypocrites know, that diffenibled fan&ity is double iniquity, and accordingly at fall they shall be dealt with, Mat. 24. S. But, 2. Secondly, No hypocrite under heaven is totally divorced from the love and liking of every known fin, there is hill iz,13,,4 fame fecret lun or other, which as a fweet model he rowls lunder his t3ngue, and will not fpit it out ; every Hypocrite [tollerates fame evil or other in himfelf, and takes liberty to tranfgrefs. An Hypocrite will make hard fhift to daub up his 'confcience, and to fecure himfelf from the checks thereof. After once the bag was committed to Judos his cuflody, after once he was chofen into that fweet office, he quickly put con- fcience
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