Epifleof S. Paul to Tifar. CHAP.I, f 6. Rroieth them: for their deflru5Uon from the Lord fleepeth not,but fhall 125 furprize them; perhaps while they are in thebodie, as eArantas,and Sa- Aa.ssio phirah, but certenly hereafter : and the damnationof fuch is noordinarie m,rd,.z;,xç. damnation, but a more ample and abundant lodgement is referued for them xprKzR.pmea- then others : and it is a worthy obferuation , that when the holy Ghofì would rowze vp theflothfull feruant, he thrcatenethhim his portion with hypoctites, Match. sq.. ver. 5 t.and for both together it is Paid, Match. a 3. vert. 41. that the Angels fall gather out of Chrifrs kirg- dome all that offend , and call them into afurnace : Iob. 15. 6. thole that 1 abide not in Chrifl,though they cleauea long time to the vifibleChurch, to5rsr6 yet arc feparated from the true inuifibleChurch, and call oat like withered branches : and men gather them,andcal them into the fire: how (hall then fuch abhominablcperlonsin Gods eies, avoid the damnation of hell? it is march, ;.a;, almofi an impoffiible thing for fuch a viperous brood ofprofefled hypo, crises euer to be faued. And ought not fuch perlons alto tobe an abhomination to good men, inwhole eyes every vile perfon ought to be contemned? yes furcly, could we difcerne them, or Goddilcouering them , we fhould be affe- éled towards them as Eiifhawas .towards lchoram,who in his flrairncs could fecke to Gods Prophet,and otherwife to Baal: as theLord of hogs 2.kinn.344. liueth,were it not that 1regard theprefence oflehofaphat, Iwould not haue loo- ked towards thee, T nor thee. vfe. r. If thefe be the notes, and this theeft ate of anhypocrite, ia at eknLan then mull it needs bevery hardto know who is an hypocrite, becaufe it Nardi to be an is a lurking iinnc,and fomasked, as there is little, yeaoften nooutward hypocrite. difference berweene the found, andvnmou:id; and confequently it can- not but be verydangerous, to lay this imputation vpon any man till the time, leaf we lodge our brethren rafhly, and condenrne the iu(f, which is as odious a fume as the iuflifyingof the wicked. And this is rather to benoted, becaufe it is become to rife a praelife to range every profeffor vnder this title, and marke himwith thisblacke cole ofhypocrifie. But as it is true that an hypocritemuff be a profeffor, fo is it falle that cuery profeffor mufibean hypocrite, And as for all other notes hereobfcrued or elfewhere in Scripture,they are fuchas whereby the owne heart of a man, andhis owne fpirit within himfelfe may iudge of himfelfe , rather then the heart or eye of another man. Many are fo like unto the deuill that they make no bones of accufing the godly (as Satan did Iob) of rob rm. hypocrifie,beeing led by that fame fpirit which is anaccuferof the bre- thren ; but not by the fpirit ofGod, which is the fpirit of loue , which thinketh no euill, but hopeth all things, euen the bell of the word: which is not iudging, neither dare it enter into the counfelt of od , nor X 2 judge
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