of Hyperi(ie in ReUgi111. 321 when we think the clean contrary, Who could h'ave perfwaded that Pharifee,Who th!tnkJdGod he faftedandgave t~lmJ ,11nd w~ notlik.! that Publican,thac he was an hrpocrite?who could have perfwade-d Paul before his converfion, that all the zeal and religion he £hewed, it was only hypocrifie ~ Indeed, I flnll tell you of atwofold hypocrifie; Agrolfe, and fiudicd one, when men do on purpofe pretend Religion to aCl: impiety, arid this is aconvinced hypo·crifie: Asd fecondly, There is a more fubtil and clofe one, when men do not things from ~oly and (pi ritual gro~mds, yet think they do fo, and fuch an one Paul was. The temporary believer, The foolifo Virgins they were fuch; Now this ktnde of hypocrifie cleaveth to us, and fecretly creepetb 'into all that we do: He rnurt be much in praying, fiudying and feJrching of his own heart, that_.~would get this Serpent our of his bowels. This is like · the Arrow that kJ:IIethat noon-dt?.y: Oh be arfaid ofthis indif– cernable difeafe 1 Little worms will quickly eat out the heart of a firong tree. Thus you have heard what is implied in the metaphor. In the next place what is plainly without any figure intended. And I. Here 'We fee the defin:[five nature of hy .oocrijie,' it turneth Honey into gall, W:ine into peifon, RelitJon into Wic'k!dnef{r. The Pharifeeli fluU be condemned for all their duties they ttufied in, as well u all their oppofition againft Cbrift. .This bypocrifie in the heart like an ill ftomack, turneth the bell: food into amatter of difeafe. Why in 1/a. I. had thofe reli– gious duties of the Jews fuch Joatbiog expreffions ufcd a.gainft them~ Why doth the Lord feem eo be as much againfl: them, as againJl their rrophane impieties? Only becaufe of their infincerity and byp0crifie in heart and life. Faith is an · e:x:celleoc grace, becaufe it rurnetb frone '; into bread; a man may finde much comfort in hard ailliA:ion>, but hypocri– fie curneth bread into fiones ; Thou canft: not have any profit, or comfort from thofe things that art infected by this finne. · 2. The dangeroufnej{e of this finne is i:1tcnded alfo, becau(c it is fo fu~til and Intent. Thde worm.:-s breed in the gourd~ · T t and
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