( Of Hyp~crJfi~ inReligion, and ~onfume it of a fudden ; -ocher finnes come like a roaring · Lion, this like a glittering Oid ing Serpent; Therefore you helrd our Saviour bids before all things BoMrt-ofrhis; when· the Dnil hath no hope to undo the~ by prophanencffe, l1e will endeavour it by hypocrifie. The more latent and creep· ing this difeafe is in thee, do tbou rhe more pray and flrive - a_gainfi it. Not that -the difcovering of hypocrifie, if we do · bewail it, ·fiwuld make us judge our felves hypocrites, as the godly are.apt to bear falfe wicnetfe ag.1infi thernfelves: No, - · Nrm nocet {en/us, ubi deefl con/tn/m, the fcnfe and feelililg of_ hyp<>cri.fit with gnawing and firivi.ng 3gain.fi it will never bun, if we do nor allowourfelves in,it, u1d give way to ir. __ This fhould not dejeel the godly, but awaken them and lline them up. InconA.tl with other finnes, I can fee my enemy,! . __ -can bebold a.fld obfervC' his turnings, but this -fin gets within . nutw.he.th-er I will or no. _ - r. The power and efficacy of it, for .it feizeth on the hearr,.~ it.furprizeth the ftrong~Cl Fort there; and then the devil will let thee pray, hear, do all rarr and extraordinary duties, as long:as this is in the heart, U1 ith their lipJ thf} dr11w nigh to – mt, _,but their heart u f4rre ftpmme. God complained fo of the – hypocrites, yea the devil will then infiigate and pat thee on . s;o duties; for the more extraordinary in them, the more hypocrifie, and fo the greater offence to God ; Leav~n doth therefore fo four and infecr, becaufe it gercetb in the midft · of the lump_; and thus it is hae, infinrericy and bypocrifie . fokes into the inw~rds, · and fo by degrees ir comes to p()f·, feffe all. _ V[e of Exhortation. B~carefull to call: out this Jeven from . thy heart. As the Serpent cafis out its poifon before it goes to drink; fo do thou, this infeCting and poifonous finne, be· fore thou go to any duty. The Archer fixeth the eye upon the mark before he.filoocs, he fhuu the Jeft eye, that the fight may be more intenfe;fo do thou fiedfaaJy fallen thy eye ..· upon .God, . its for him, for his glery and honour that I do tbefe things, and let the left eye of carnaJI refpeds be do– fed up ; Think not this finne is very rare ;~nd feldom to be , found; The wbole Nation of the Jews was greatly guilty _ · . · this -._
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