Cep. 34 An Expofitron upon the Bookof J o B. Verf. 30. confolation to them in the next words ; Tour father which feeth in fecrer, hirasfelfe'hall reward you openly ; yea ( which is a higher confolation then that) Himfelfe will be your reward. Secondly , As the defigning hypocrite delires to be feene to doing good, or to have the goodwhich he hath done feene ; fohe is exceeding cenforious and rigid towards thofewhom he lees fal- ling into evill. Chrifl gives this difcovery alío ( Mark: 7. 3. ) Why beholdeft thou themote that is in thy brothers eye, but confider_ eft not the bourne that is rn thine axone eye ; concluding at the 5tk verle ; Thouhypocrite (whydo:h ChriR call himhypocrite ? fure- ly becaufe he was foquick lighted to fee amore, that is,a fmaller fault in his brothers eye , but woke no notice of the bearne that was in his owne eye ; a fpot upon his brothers coate,was cenfured more by him, then his owne wallowing in the mire. I doe not fay that the Patriarke Judah was anhypocrite, but, as thofe two other Fatria,ks,fo he acted one very grolle part of hypocrifie( Gen. 33. 24.) For he no fooner heard that Tumor was withchilde, but he .cenfured, yea condemn'd her prefently to death ; Bringher forth ( fayd he ) and let her be burnt; andyet himfelfe was mere faulty then the. How hard a Judge was he of that crime in another, which was principally his owne ? Saul had finned greatly ( Sam. 3. g.) in offering facrifice before Samuelcame, which was an ufurpation of the Prtef;s office, and fo great a fin that Samuel told him prefently, Clodwould therefore rend the Kingdome fronthim ; yet he thought toput it off with a flight excufe. But in the 14th Chapter when 7onathan only offended againfl a rath command of his ( putting a-Curie upon that people if any did eate before the goingdown of the Sun ) he fentenced him to death for it. In the gthof Tohn, How fevere were the Pharifees to the woman taken in Adultery , theyhaled her before Chrill, and preffed the Law that the Ihould be flowed to death ; yet, when Ch tft fayd (v, 7.) He that is withoutfin among you, let loins ea aflame at her, they being convilled by their owneconfcience, wentout one by one Weought to reprove and not Ratter fin in others ; yet e. ey who are extreamely fevere againul a fin in others, ufually favour either the fame or a worfe in themfelves. He that is fincere, pittieth others, as much as reproves them, and he reproves them, though with fhart;nefs, yet with meeknefs, at once con(idering himfelfe, left he alfo be tempted (Gal: 6. i.) and blefliing God who hath Fffff2 kept 77t
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