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CARIS'T1AN MCIRAL11'Y,
.VdZ.
[SEAM.
X1GI.
denounced against
.
hypocrites.
You
scarce
find him
preaching
,a
sermon
of
any length,
but
he
has
one or
more
woes in
it
ready
for those
that
practise
hypocrisy.
There
is
no
sort
of
sinners
that
he
treats
with
such
in-
famous names and
such killing
reproaches
as he does
the
hypocrite.
They
resemble the
old
serpent,
the
devil, in
subtlety and
falsehood, and
therefore
the
language
of
Christ
to them
runs
in
this
manner
;
Ye`
Jews,
who
are
false
to
the
inward conviction
of
your
own consciences,
ye
are
of
your
father
the
devil,
and
the
lusts
ofyourfa-
ther
ye will
do :
Ile
was
a murderer
from
the beginning,
and
abode
not
in the
truth,
because
there
is no
truth
in
him.
When
he
speaketh a.lie,
he
speaketh
of
his
own :
for
he is a
liar, and
the
father
of
it,
John
viii. 44.
It
is
as
if
our Lord
had
said,
The
first lie
that
ever
was
made,
was
made by the
devil
;
and
by
his
telling
a
lie,
and our mother
Eve's,
believing
it,
he
murdered
mankind
in
Adam their
head. And
yet
you false
Jews
would
imi-
tate
him;
and
make
him
your father."
And again,
Woe
unto you
scribes
and
pharisees, hypocrites,---ye serpents,
ye
generation
of
vipers, sons
of the
old
serpent,
how
can
ÿe
escape
the damnation
of
hell
?
Mat.
xxiii. 29, 33,.
Your
eternal punishment
is
most
just
and
unavoidable.
In
another
of
his
discourses
he
makes
the
punishment
of
hypocrites
to
be,
as
it
were,
the
pattern of
the punish -
ment of
the worst
of
wickedness.
The servant
who is
intrusted
with the
household
of
his
Lord,
that
shall
beat
his
fellows,
and shall
eat
and drink
with
the
drunken,.
his
Lord shall
cut
him
asunder, and
appoint him
his
portion
with the hypocrites
;
there
shall
be
weeping
and
gnash-
ing
of
teeth,
Mat.
xxiv.
51.
And
when you
read the
black
catalogue
of sinners,
who
are
doomed
to
everlast-
ing
destruction, Rev.
xxi.
8.
the name
of
liars
is
put
in
with a peculiar remark,
the unbelievers, the murderers,
the
whoremongers, the sorcerers, idolators, and all liars,
,shall
have
their
part
in the
lake
which
burneth
with
fire
and
brimstone, which
is
the second
death.
As
if
he
had
,said, whosoever escapes
hell,
no
liar
shall
escape
it, and
it
is
repeated
again
in
the
next
chapter,
Without
the
gates
of
heaven are
dogs
and murderers, and
idolaters, and
'.whosoever loveth and maketh a
lie.
Rev.
xxii.
15.
Whensoever therefore
we find
a temptation
to false-
hood,
let
us
set ourselves
under
the immediate
eye
of