~ ~· ~.... ~ -"""- ~!!eart-1reafure. . · tl1inks ·he is fo~thing , yer he is nothing., ' and fo deceives his own foule, plaies the So- - phifler~and- puts a f:.tHe Syllogifm~ upon hi~- , (elf, as the ApofiieJameJ fpeaks :. How ma- ·_ 1 fJY arc in ·a gblden dream f ~hat build Cafiles . in the Air, and fancie they ·are Kings , bur, when theyawakeout of their frantick dreams do finde them'felves mitc:rably mifiaken !. Sa.;. /fJmon faith, Who(o /;oafteth him[eJfof a fal{e gift, u lik.! CloNds 4n-4,Jtn'nd withoNt .ra'in, Prov. 2 ~· J 4· i. e. He that ·pretendeth to gtve or re. cei ve what is not real , but counterfeiteth ei..,. - ther, renders himfelf rid'iculous to men ; .and odioils to God : Our Lord Jefus cu~fcd the barren Fig-tree, tomanifefr his difpleafure a– .ga.inft hypoctifie_; Hypocrites are the mofl haretul of all perfons, they are hatedof wic– ked men for feeming good , they are hat.ed i of ·God and jgood men, for But fecming, 'and ·< not Bei11g trulygood: As Hypocrites fr.uit is , like the Appfes of Sodom that look fair with ., abeauti(ul skin, bur touch thcm,and theyare duO: ~ , fo ~re Hypocrites ends likclie tobe likeJ that of Sodo,,. whi~h Godoverthrew as in a . moment: yea , tbefe tnuft be pa~terns to o- . ~· thers of a more dreadful deflru&ion ;"benee I ·. • _the ~hrafc cf appointi;g ta ~ortion with th~ Hy- M~tth. ~4-l pocrttu. Bur herecomes Ina carnal, fenfual ; 1. I for, ~nd applies all this to the zealous Protef- , for, :tnd wil nee~s condemn him for an hyp8C[ltC , becaufe .he makes fo great a £hew; ~aod acconnt himfe!t a fincere Saint, bccaufe he conceics his bean to- be good; the former ~f~.n(4r~ i§ ~OJltra:~i~ t_o,Scti?~Urf , ' ~nd this la~.:. . , . Jt~t . \
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