462 Chap. z3. An Expofitionupon theBook ofJos, Vert-. >< 6. by thinking him all that's wicked. The MoraIiff faith, when you havePaid, aman is ungrateful, you havefaid all that is ill ofhim. I am fure when we have faid a man is an hypocrite, we have faid all that's ill of him, andhave called him, not only ( as we fay) all to nought, but all that's naught. To do wickedly, or to be wicked is bad enough ; but to do wickednefs under pretence of goodnefs, or for a man whole heart tels him he is wicked, to pretend to goodnefs, this is abominable. An hypocrite is not worfe than other wicked men, becaufe he alwaies bath more fin than they, but becaufe he hides his fin : Nor loth the greatnefs of his fin lie (imply in this, becaufe he hides how linfül be is, but becaufe he appears holy, which he is not; that he feems good is worfe then his being really had. That fatan is the prto incbe e ofdarknefs,fpeaks not fo much ill ofhim,as this,that he transform, himfelf into an Angel oflight, Anhypocrite never loth good out of love toGod, but out of deign for himfelf. He thinks he can impofe uponGod, and mock him as one man mocks another, he makes God an idol, as if he had eyes and could not fee,or had no eyes to feehis waies,nor underflanding to fearch into his heart. And to Phewthat hypocrites are the worft of tanners they are fen- tenced to the wort}of punifhments. Anhypocrite (hall not come beforehim, faith job here, howgreat a punifhment that is, will appear in the next obfervation. When Chrill would exprefs the foreff judgment upon any fortof finners, he tels them they- fhdll have their portion withhypocrites and unbelievers, (Mat. 24. 51.) implying that the judgement paffed upon hypocrites is the moil dreadful judgement. Now, if the judgement of an hypo- crite be the greatell judgment, then the fin of an hypocrite is the greateft fn ; for the jullice ofGod takes- themeafure of pu- nifhment by the meafure of fin. As every fin deferves punifh- ment, foever,where the punifhtnent is greater,the fin is greater, either in the matter, or in the circum(lancesof it. Hypocrites are (as one glofféth this text in Matthew) the free-holders of hell, other finners are but as inmates with them, and have but a portion oftheir mifery. Now, as that by whichother thingsare proportioned and meafured is a perfect meafure,, and that by which other things are weighed is a perfect weight in its kind fo that by which the greatelt mifery is weighed and meafured, is themoft perfect mifery in its degree; Seeing then the weight and meafureof that mifery which refls upon an hypocrite is úfed by
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