of 1/Jpocri{ltln Religim. praying, fafiing and almfgivir,g, and ltl~l be ~aitb, Be not iU the Ph~trifees. Thus J!fllrk._8. 15. he b1ds h1s htaren, 71e– 'n!are of the /even DJ HtrDd, which was praCtical, for Chrift called him aJ'ox, and he pretended to be for theJewith Re– ligion, when he only aimed at temporal grntnefle. Firft, That hJpDcri.Jie u aJPiritual /even , fouring andim/Jit• .0/Jf ef:'l/0. tering all our Religi6n. God would have no Jeven in any Sacrifice, becaufe it was ofa bitter, puffin~ and inflating na· ture, called therefore in tbe Greek~ut'n"~~Cd, as ferment~tm 11. ferveo, and this alfo was the reafon why God forbad hon~y alfo in every Sacrifice, becaufe it was ~uft671r..ov inflating, and ' _ putting only fait was commanded to be ufed in every Sacri· fjce, becaufe it did preferve from pu~refa8ion. Te handlethis, let us confider, 1. What is jn the meta phor or firn ilirude. And . ' '-• What is fimply and. plainly implied in it. And . . Firtl, Hypoc_rijie may be compared to leve14, becau/e of its Why kypocripulh niJ' and .in.flatinu thewhole lump. This is fo .proper to lc:ven, fie is compared. 'Jl' 1> 'J• .!> to leaven. that the Latins to expreffe a man fwtlling with anger anddiJ1 • content fay, Totu. !in ferrmnto eft; and David in fome Pfa!ms, when he faith, Hu heart w.u troubledandgrieved .within him, ia the Hebrew it is, it was !evened within him : and thus doth all hypocrifie, it puffeth up and makes the heart fwell through vain·glory, pride and felf. righceoufndfe, UWat..6. Our Saviour taxeth the Ph~rifces for this thing, They did all' tbingJ to befen; 9J men; fo that no proud woman did more en· dea\lour to fet o1.1t her beauty,and to make it vifib le to others, then they did their religion in fafiing and almfgjving : and this you may fee to be the ~onflant difeafe of all the Phafifees, thfy jutJified tbemftlves, They were not .uother men,and· . therefo re our Saviour told them, T hey ceuld never love him, . fo as 0U'ary M agdalen did, becaufe they CO\lld n-ot think tbemfelves fuch tinnen , and therefore that more ·was forgi~- · ven them then i:O other , yea the whole Nation of the Jews laboured unde this difeafe: as appeareth by_ the feveral corn-: plaints of the Prophets, an henc~ it is that none are at fuch an tnmityand contrariety to Chrifi and his grace, as thefe. learnednten. PAul inbis Epiftle to the (;11/atians, and other - Sf l plilc~e
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