The deceit fulneffe of Mans heart. for Ierobo.tms policie úi11 prevailed with him, By this note many are detested for unfound. t Thole that pretending confcience of fmali cnacters,ftick not at greater.Like the Pharifees,ftrai- ning at a Gnat,and hallowing á Camel!. Hypocri rica!! saulleemed to make a haynous matter of eat- ing the flc(h of beafts with the blood : For unto the people thus offending, he Paid, Te have dealt tricked - Ili but is was nothing wich him to fpill the innocent blood of worthy tonathan his fonne : for unleffe he had been - hindred , he had put him to death. Nay, he was fo fcrupulous, that he would not fo much as name a guilty man or a (inner, but in carting of lots : in ftead of Paying, fhew the nocent or guilty, he laid, Shen the upright, or innocent perfora, as Tre- wedius reales. And yet this man at the fame time, made no confcience of cruell.and bloody oathes. The Priefl in the Golpel, when he fiw the woun- ded man lie halle dead , he went on the ocher fide of the way, fearing left by comming neere unto him, hee might coucraa Lome legali uncleanneire bt t he feared not co paffe by, without all mercy and compaflion, his poor and diltreffed neighbour. The Phariièes would not defile themfelves in comming into the common Hall on the day of preparation to the Paffe over, but they fcrupled not a whit to im- brue their hands i.a, the blood of the innocent Lamb ofGod. In no cafe would they eat in veffels unpurified,buc the meas which they did eat in chofe veffels, were horribly polluted; both with injuftice and oppre(lion, in the getting ofthem, and with in- temperancie and riot in the eating of them. And this 349 I ;in.iz.16,' i Sam. 33' V er, 4z, cedo in- ttgrum ; id eft, dec'ara, quas fit innoxills pro eo quod ef declara nocentem fed euphimilmo utitur ut [olent hypocrite, lun. Lukelo.3t. lohn 18.z:8.
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