. of11ypocrifie in Religi1n. 31S ticude, p.uef.t~..J\,, fo that they trod one upon another i Th-is the ficteU fubjed: to be preached upon, if the whole W()rld were auditors, ·is to take heedof hypocriGe. , 3• You have the more immediate and dired: fubjed:, be fpeaks tohuDifciples: He began to fay to them : Thus yo• fee not only Pharif(es and Scribes profeffed hypocrites are ~ reproved, but even the Difciples ·of Cbrifi in· the highefr forme; they are ro look this worm breeds not irt'Ebeir befi: Bowers, that they fwallow not poifon mingled with fweet wine. 4· There is the finne forbidden exprdfed, J, Plainly, h;:. pocrifte, of whic-h more herelfter. 2.Metaphorically,leaven, .BtWflre ofthe leaven 6/rhe Pharifees: Hypocrifie is here corn~ pared to leaven, that as leaven hat h two main properties, .acorem& tumorem, afowring and a/wellingquaHcy, thus hath hypocrifie. 5. Here is the circomfped and in~ufirious manner of pro– hibition ofit, Bm.ere ye, as of that which is very dangerous, and Ye!t by which wemly'raGiy be feduced; Its a fin,though very pefiilen_!iall and ddlruClive; ~et very unperceivable: And then <ri!f'cv-rov, fidi: ofall, or above all other things, beware of this. Hence Matth. 1 6.6. where is the fame admonition preffed; our Saviour addeth two words,_ Tnk,s heed, and Be· ware, look with borhyour eyes, as we fa)'; wben prophane– neffe cannor, ukel1eed hypocrifie cloth not damnyou. 6 Here is the kinde of hypocrifie forb idden, and tb:lt is, of the Phari(ecs, thofe who were mofi renowned andexalt.ed by all, Chrifi who knew their henc~, chargetb them with this; now it wu deformed and very abomin.ablc in them, as appeareth by their ofientation, in prayer, :;.hns aBd fafiing: ' Tbus as the Lacedomit~tns, to make their children abborre drunkenneffe, would pref~nt before their eyes, thei-r fervants drunk, that fo in them they might fee what a loathfome brui– tial thing it was, which was likely to work more upon .them~ then many longer exhortations to fobriety: So our Saviour reprefencing to his Difciples the affc:Cled and proud vain– gl0rious wayof thePharifces, in all their duties, would here– by make them the more in love with humility and meekoefs. S f 2 . Ldtly,
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