Chap. 36. AnExpnfiftion upon the Boob o f J o B. Verf. r 3. ons ? ) So many are hypocrites, or rotten at heart, who know it not. The heart is deceitfiall above all things, ( fairñ the Prophet er. 17. y.) and defperately wicked, who can k w it ; And among all men,common hypocrites know leaf+ of their own hearts. But the hypocrites in heart know their hearts are rotten and fat+:e, to what they profeffe. The politick hypocrite knoveth that all he Induuntla'iusn doth is but in thew, and that he Both but ael a part in Religi inerstir et colo- aPlayer upon the Stage, when he is mof+ religious ; he doth but rert,ir"flttatdr; take a colour,or die,or paynt ,b mfelf with Religion, (which is the p pr etas , fignification of the wordhere ufed in the Hebrew) but is not re- d coa B 1, fct ligious, he doth butt puta'faire gloife, or dif uife upon hirnfell, ity%ere rein a- that he may appear what he is not, or what he knows, himfelf not liens mtá,è, et tobe ; He knoweth in himfelf that he is naught, white he would lbeah pat be known by and to others asgood. The Apof}le fpeaking of the licv, etw grievous fufferings of force primitive Chriflianc, faith ( F1c6.ia. 34. ) They tookjeyfTelly thefpoyling of theirgoods,lsnowing in them- (elves that theyhave a better and a more enduring fubfiance;that "is, they knew they were in a prefent gracious flare, and that there remained for them an eternal happy Rate. Thus also an hypá- crite in heart, is one that knoweth in himfelf, or in his heart, that he doth but pretend to be good, and that whatfoever good he do th,it is only in pretence,and is therefore (as the Apoflle fpeaks of the Heretick, Tit. 3. a x.) condemned ofhimfelf, while he ac- quits or commends himfelf never fo well to others; Thus it ap- pears how bad, how bafe the hypocrite in heart is in his befi ap- pearances, and howmuch he excels and bears away the Bel for bafenefs and badnefs, t may fay,for madness too, from all common hypocrites. Now asthey exceed in fin, fo they mall in mitery,. the next words affure us of that; But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath. Etihu havingdefcribed the perfons that hedealeth with, or a- bout-, he alfo fets forth both their wofull and fin ul1 condition : And he doth it three wayes : Firfi , Bywhat they do ; They heapup wrath. For a man to be :labouring continuallyonly tomake heaps ofwrath for himfelf, in what ,a wofulhcondition is that man ! Secondly, He flews their bad, both [infuil and wofull condi- tion, bywhat they will notdo ; that we have at the . latter end of L 1 z the z50
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