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A93061	The hypocrites ladder, or looking-glasse. Or A discourse of the dangerous and destructive nature of hypocrisie, the reigning and provoking sin of this age. Wherein is shewed how far the hypocrite, or formal professor may go towards heaven, yet utterly perish, by three ladders of sixty steps of his ascending. Together with a looking-glass, clearly discovering that lurking sin of hypocrisie. As also another glass to try sincerity of grace by. / By Jo. Sheffeild minister of the word at Swithins London.	Sheffeild, John, d. 1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing S3063; Thomason E1570_1	172,287	360

Ezek. 13. 22. who would call for fire from heaven on Luke 9. 54. those whom wee are to save with fear rather pulling them out of the fire of hell Jude v. 23. But wee enter upon this unpleasant task with the like affection to that which was Fuller Proph. state wont to bee shewed at the Degradation of a Knight for high misdemeanour the King and twelve Knights more did put on mourning as an emblem of sorrow for his miscarriage whom they were now to deprive of all his former dignities and honour and to leave an everlasting blot of infamy upon I remember well when the Prophet Ezekiel was commanded to denounce the fatal downfal of Tyrus a heathen City hee was commanded also to take up a sad Lamentation for Tyrus and shall I not much more take up a lamentation for Christians whose rise and fall are both far greater than hers Tyrus her state for the glory of it is described thus by the Prophet Thou hast said I am of perfect beauty Ezek. 27. 3. yea the Lord said of her too Ezek. 28. Thou sealest up the Sum full of wisdome and perfect in Ezek 28. 12 13 14. beauty thou hast been in Eden the Garden of God every precious stone was thy covering the Sardius Topas Diamond Beril Onyx Jasper Saphir Emerauld Carbuncle and Gold c. almost all the precious Ex 28. 17 18 19. Rev. 21 19 20 stones that were in the High Priests breast-plate or in the wall of the New Jerusalem then hee goes on Thou art the anointed Cherub thou wast upon the holy Mountain of God c. High expressions and high priviledges And Chap. 27. shee is described to bee the most famous Mart in the world where there was a confluence of all the riches and best commodities that every Nation did afford yet at length did this Anointed Cherub that was perfect in beauty perish with all her precious stones and all is summed together Thy Riches thy Fayres thy Merchandise thy Mariners thy Pilots thy Calkers the occupiers of thy Merchandise Ez 27. 27. c. shall all fall with thee into the midst of the Seas in the day of thy ruine So mee thinks when all this may bee said in a spiritual sense of a Christian an unsound Professor glorious in his own and others eyes too as of perfect beauty as sealing up the summe omnibus numeris perfectus that hee is adorned with all the precious stones almost that are to bee found in the breast of the highest earthly Saint and are the adorning of the Saint Triumphant in the New Jerusalem Psal 15. 1. that hee hath been in the holy Mountain of God is an anointed Cherub being anointed with the oyle of heavenly gifts above his fellows and made partaker of the Holy Ghost as the Apostle speaks besides that hee should have a contribution of all the spiritual wealth and treasure of the world to inrich him everlastingly viz. the benefit of all the Writings Sermons Observations Admonitions Threats Promises Experiences of all the men of God from the beginning of the world to this present day Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Ministers all the benefit that Scriptures Sermons Sabbaths Sacraments Ordinances Prayers Tears Intreaties Threats Promises Hopes Fears can do all that Heaven and Earth and Hell can say yea the blood of Christ and the convictions and other excitations and actings of the Spirit of grace but rejected and resisted to boot that at length it should bee said That thou thy riches precious stones Anointings thy Scriptures Sermons Ordinances Hopes Fears Experiences Parts Duties Convictions Endowments must all peri●h together and thou shalt f●ll with them not into the midst of the Sea but into the midst of Hell in the day of thy ruine The beholders cryed out Alas Alas what City was like Tyrus for glory before And what City is like Tyrus like the destroyed Ezek. 27. 32. in the midst of the Sea So may wee say Alas how is the mighty fallen the shield of the mighty as if hee had never been anointed with oyle as that 2 Sam. 1. sad singer of Israel in his Elegy upon Sauls Funerals If therefore any misdeeming Israelite should come to expostulate with mee about my design in setting down so close about the hypocrite in the words of that wise woman of Abel to Joab when hee had so close begirt the Town where Sheba had taken Sanctuary and was 2 Sam. 20. 19 20. ready to storm it Thou seekest to destroy a City and a mother in Israel why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord I would reply in no other but his words Far bee it far bee it from mee that I should swallow up or destroy Deliver mee Sheba deliver mee the hypocrite I seek for and I have done onely with this difference hee would have Sheba's head and I would have the hypocrites heart hee would have his blood I his spirit hee his death I his life hee would have him wholly destroyed I would have the flesh destroyed that the soul may bee saved in the day of the Lord according to that power the Lord hath given to his Church and the instructions left with his Ministers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to edification 2 Cor. 10. 8. 13. 12. not unto destruction Yet let mee here premise this withall That a much shorter Ladder of but two steps laid down 2 Cor. 5. 17. to bee in Christ this step cometh from heaven and to bee a new creature this reacheth to heaven would secure us more than those three long Ladders of sixty rounds At least as Noah was safer in his Ark of three stories high than Nimrod and his crew were in their Tower of Babel raised to the height of five thousand one hundred forty six paces as is reported so I Heylin Cosm 13. am bold to say that at most a short Ladder of three steps 1 Christ the foundation 2 Faith the middle step joyning us to the foundation Christ and leading us to the third step the new creature which is our perfection will bring thee certainly and safely to salvation whereas thou mightest mount up to the top of the other three Ladders and bee turned off unto thy destruction of these three it is said each of them that they are all in all all nothing without them 1 Christ Jesus is said to bee all in all Col. 3. 11. hee is all in all to faith and the new creature Circumcision and uncircumcision c. all priviledges of Law and Gospel nothing without Christ 2 In Christ Circumcision and uncircumcision nothing but faith all in all to the new creature Gal. 5. 6. 3 In Jesus Christ again neither Circumcision nor uncircumcision is any thing to faith but the new creature is all in all for evidence Gal. 6. 15. How happy are they where all these three meet This threefold cord holds fast the Anchor of salvation CHAP. XIII Contains the first Ladder

what yee 2 Jo. v. 8. have wrought but that yee may receive a full reward which short Epistle I desire I may recommend to your Ladiships as a fair and rich Glass to be alwayes in your eye And if you shall please to cast an eye also into these two Glasses mentioned in this following Discourse especially the later which is your own all but the plainness and homeliness of it I hope I may say though it bee no fair yet it is no false nor Counterfeit-Glass no nor yet the former neither though it bee of purpose provided to shew the false and counterfeit face and vizard Now the Lord himself under whose shadow you have chosen to sit as was Ruth 2. 12. said to Ruth give unto your Ladiships a rich increase of his Grace and Spirit and a full recompence of all labours of love and piety shewed to his name and servants Giving you an inheritance among such as are sanctified And what was promised to the house of David that it should never want a light or to the family of the Rechabites that there should never 2 Chron. 21. 7. want some of that Race to stand before him so that it may please God Jer. 35. 19. successively to bless those great and noble families of which you were descended at first and into which you were happily ingrafted That the Cecills and Egertons and Talbots and Armins may never want Ladies of like Spirit and Grace to build up those Honourable houses yea such as with Leah and Rachel may build up the house of Ruth 4. 11. Israel that the Children and Grand-children born in those Families may with the inheritance of your Names and Honour and States and Bloud bee Heirs also of the same life of Grace which is your present greatest Honour and of the same grace of life which is 1 Pet. 3. 7. your future Hope Is and shall bee Right Honourable Ladies The prayer of your Ladiships most humble servant Jo. Sheffeild To the sincere Professor labouring after the power of Godlinesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grace Mercy and Peace with perseverance TO thee I say yet not I but the Lord I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them that are evil and hast tryed them which say they are Apostles and are not and hast found them lyars as to the Ephesine Angel or as to the Angel of Thyatyra Rev. 2. 2. I know thy works and charity and thy service and faith and thy patience and Ver. 19. thy works and the last to bee more than the first Thou art hee as was foretold to Judah whom thy Brethren shall praise thy Fathers Gen. 49. 8. children shall bow down to thee Thou art one of those few Names in this Sardian age who have kept their garments clean and white and shalt walk with Christ in white as hee saith Rev. 3. 4. Thou art one of those who must stand up in the breach and help to bear up the Pillars of this shaking land for indeed except the Lord of Hosts had left us a very small remnant of such wee had been as Sodom and been made like unto Gomorrah Es 1. 9. Hold fast integrity and let uprightness preserve thee and thou shalt shortly come to the possession of thy promised Crown This discourse I must needs say is not intended for thee much less against thee as Pharoah Necho said to Josiah My errand 2 Chron. 35. 21 is to another sort of people thy opposites therefore as hee advised stand not in the way but forbear and withdraw why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt especially disguize not thy self as hee did lest thou perish Look well to thy foundation see that thou beest well versed in and acquainted with the grace and practise of humility self-denial and repentance those rooting graces Then strive to grow up in faith and hope and charity those nutritive and growing graces And lastly seek to bee crowned with integrity integrality and perseverance those perfective and crowning graces and thou art safe When fear shall surprize the hypocrites and they shall cry out Who among us Es 33. 14 15. shall dwell with devouring fire Who shall abide with everlasting burnings Then shalt thou dwell on high thy place of defence shall bee the munition of rocks yea as thou art at present a Crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord and a Diadem of beauty in the hand of thy God as is said Es 62. 3. so the Lord shall bee one day to thee a Crown of glory and a Diadem of beauty as is promised Es 28. 5. Behold the Lord will make all them of the Synagogue of Satan which say they are Jewes and are not but do lie to come and worship before thy feet and to know how hee hath loved thee Rev. 3. 9. Help us Oh help us to catch those foxes that mar our grapes and destroy our Cant. 2. 15. vineyard and not to catch them with guile but with simplicity to silence and with sincerity to convince them If wee could as in Nehemiahs time get the Church freed from Tobiahs and Sanballats and many secret adversaries that will perforce have a hand in building how well and sweetly would our Church-work go on If wee could get our Congregations rid Ezr. 4. 3. of these what Times and Assemblies should wee have And certainly it is not daubing with untempered morter and crying peace peace will save the souls alive wee hunt Ezr. 13. 15 16 20. for but a bold adventuring of all to save with fear and to snatch with violence poor souls snared in holes led away with divers Jude ver 23. lusts pulling them as out of the fire and Jerom saith this were optabilis Rapina Es 42. 2● Sancta violentia an honest Rapine and an holy violence Some of Gods worthy servants have to their great praise labour'd to purge the Church of error which is opposite to the truth and of prophaneness which is destructive to holiness but if wee should see our Church freed from both these which were a sight much to bee desired and not also see it purged from hypocrisie opposite both to love of truth and Power of Godliness what had wee gained but out of the fear and snare to fall into the pit Errours are dangerous and various but they have been enumerated Scandalous offences are many and more pernicious than divers erronious opinions and those that bar the offender from Church Communion have been Catalogued But hypocrisie is more fly and harder to bee described These three error prophaneness and hypocrisie are like the three sons of Anak Sheshai Ahiman and Talmai which made Israel to tremble and their hearts to melt which are to bee encountred not by any scattered troops but by the united forces of Iudg 1. 3. 10. Judah and Simeon helping each other These three are like the three sons

the beauty of the head the face of the face the eye of the eye the Apple such is sincerity the Man the Head the Face the Eye the Apple the Glory the Beauty the All. Of which I might speak a great deal more but I forget that I am but writing an Epistle and a Preface not a treatise at the present Now what remains but that all the people of God bee desired to deal with other controversies and contentions Logomachyes or Theo-logomachyes as they did with Amasa when wallowing in his blood hee caused every man to stand still and not pursue the battel of the Lord I say what remains but to cover this Amasa and to draw him out of the way that wee may pursue this 2 Sam. 20. 12 13. more dangerous Son of Bichri and especially that the Lord Jesus bee desired with humble and incessant supplications to take his fan into his hand and throughly purge his floor gathering out the bryars and thorns one of his Vineyard and if wee may not bee so happy as to see an hedge set about his Vineyard that hee will set up his watch Tower in our hearts and that hee will come with his Refiners fire and Fullers Soap and purge both the sons of Levi and the whole family of Israel as Gold and silver are purged and that hee who hath the keyes of heaven and hearts would open the Es 26. 2. gate that a righteous Nation which keepeth the truth may enter in I. S. To the Unsincere Professor resting in the form of Godliness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Spirit of Power of Love of a Sound Minde with Repentance I Remember that Learned Perkins that faithfull Servant of Jesus Christ did once direct one of his books to the ignorant and simple people and our blessed Saviour one of his Epistles to the Church at Sardis a people who had only a name to live but Revel 3. 1. were really dead and whose works were not perfect before God the Servant to instruct the one and the Master to awaken the other And therefore though many other godly and painful Writers have directed their writings to the perusal of the godly and Christian Readers I have chose to recommend this following discourse to thee to shew thee first thy self and thy own unsafe condition then to provoke thee to consider thy waies and amend them I must say of this discourse as St. Paul said once of the Law The Law is not 1 Tim. 1. 9 10. made for the righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and prophane c. So this discourse is not made for the godly and humble and sincere they have an Vnction that teacheth them and a Monitor that remembereth them that wee need not say to such know the Lord therefore I write not to them but to the lawless and liveless to the graceless and Christless Professor And to thee I may speak in the words of Ahijah the Prophet 1 King 14. 6. to the wife of Jeroboam disguising her self I am sent to thee with heavy tidings To these our Mourning Mother saith in the words of Jepthe to his Daughter Alas my Childe Thou hast brought mee Judg. 11. 35. very low thou art one of those that troubleth mee or more sharply in the words of Saul to his Son and with more truth Thou art the shame of thy Mothers nakednesse 1 Sam. 20. 30. I am easily sensible that the Church hath been of latter dayes more fruitful in the number of Professors than formerly as Israel when of a suddain the mixt multitude poured in among them But as I have read of some women that have brought forth numerous or rather monstrous Births as a Countess of Hausbergh that at one birth was delivered of three hundred sixty five as Lud. Vives and others report Another Lady Daughter to the Earl of Holland as many And another in Cracovia delivered of thirty six children yet none of these came to maturity or ever lived to encrease the world So have wee had numbers of Professors added yet not to the encrease of the Church of whom wee may take up that which is said Es 9. 3. Thou hast multiplied the Nation and not encreased the joy I know also that many of our now Professors are in shew more glorious in forms if not some above all forms far more transcendent in self-opinions and admirations more exalted wee have many Absaloms who think if they were in place and they might bee hearkened to they could better wield may I not say wilde Kingdomes and they could better mould and moddle may I not say moulder Churches than ever yet they were since the Apostles dayes when they have nothing but craft and guile if not blood and Treason in their Vows and Sacrifices Once I heard the Christian world groaned and admired it was so suddenly become Arrian now a Prophane world may wonder that it should so soon become Christian and with like words to the Churches wonder Es 49. 21. Who hath begotten mee these who hath brought up these Behold I was left alone these where had they been Wee have now such as say as the Prophet saith In the pride and stoutness of their hearts the bricks of Popery and Prelacy are fallen down but wee will Es 9. 10. build with hewen stones and the low Sycomore trees are fallen down of Presbytery c. but wee will build with Cedars Wee have them that say of their members or Teachers as the Assyrian of his Princes Are not my Princes altogether Es 10. 8 9. Kings Or as the Corinthian Professors who said they were rich and full Reigned as Kings without Paul and such like 1 Cor. 4. 8. Ministers and these say is not Calnoh as Carchemish Is not Hamath as Arpad Samaria as Damascus So now is not Rome as Sodome Prelacy as Gomo●rah Presbytery as Babylon Independency also as Egypt But our Land Goshen our Pepuza Jerusalem our Church Capernaum and our members Sion Wee read Jer. 24. 1. that the Prophet Jeremiah saw in a Vision two Baskets of Figs before the Temple the first very good the latter stark naught representing the Professors of the first and second Edition or transplantation Wee have seen the like The former the Lord promised to own and acknowledge the latter hee rejected wee may cry out with the Prophet Micah 7. 1. Woe is mee I am as when they have gathered the Summer fruits as the Grape gleanings of the Vintage there is no cluster to eat my soul desireth the first ripe fruit the goodman is perished out of the earth and none i● upright amongst them the best of them is a bryar the most upright sharper than a thorn hedge c. When John the Baptist in his dayes saw a many Pharisees and Sadduces come Mat. 3. 7. flocking to his Baptisme hee wondered more than joyed at the sight looking upon them

love and patience of hope c. 1 Faith is the first watering grace humility plants faith waters sincerity gives the increase perseverance crowns and a working faith is a watering faith It is a principal member and holds the head to get more nourishment to it self first then conveyes to all the fellow-members other holy graces Faith begins to work so soon as it begins to bee works in desires longings pantings hungrings thirstings when it is yet weak but as it gets more strength it undertakes greater works it works first may bee on a threat then on a promise some single promise afterwards upon all the bundle of the promises then upon commands then upon all duties at last it is able to indure all trials 1 A working faith works upon Christ and works it self into him as the Cony works into the Rock 2 It works upon the promise as a strong stomach on wholesome meat concocts it and getteth strength from it 3 It works upon corruption as Aqua-fortis upon iron to eat it asunder or as a Corrosive on corrupt flesh to consume it 4 It works against temptation as the Pioner works for his life to countermine such as would blow him up 5 It works and tugs at a duty as a Mariner at Sea who hath his hand on the Rudder and his eye fixed on heaven 6 Against Satan it works as a hardy Souldier that stands in the breach and will dye in the place rather than give ground 7 It may bee said to work with God as Jacob did it wrestles strives intreats holds his hold and will not let go without a blessing and when all other emergent works are out of hand it hath one constant business to pursue which as the good huswifes work is never at an end to work up the work of his salvation with fear and trembling So that a true Phil. 2. 12. faith is alway accompanied with and may bee said to bee perfected by works Jam. 2. 22. That it may bee said to every true beleever as to the Church of Thyatira I Rev. 2. 19. know thy works and charity and service and faith and patience and thy works again and the last to bee more than the first This is the lively faith the lasting faith To beleeve is a work Joh. 6. 29. But the faith of hypocrites is a dead liveless imaginary faith Those are the Solifidians and Nullifidians who are the Nullioperists Many think faith hath an easie and idle life of it a Ladies life neither to toyl or spin yet to bee cloathed above Solomon in all his glory with the rich robes of Christs righteousness or the life of an Vsurer who whether hee sleep or wake his profit comes tumbling in and hee hath no more to do but to tell and take it as if faith had nothing to do but to tell the promises accept a Saviour receive a pardon challenge a priviledge and wait for the rent-Rent-day of full payment as if it were to wash his steps in butter anoint his head with oyl and swim in the Rivers and floods and brooks of honey and butter Job 20. 17. Those deeps of the love of God and the blood of the Lamb but these are much mistaken This is the wages not the work of faith the Holy-day work as I may say and not the work-day business Faith hath business for both hands Active and Passive work as well as Applicative Faith is a stout Champion therefore the Lord sets it as David did Vriah in the face and front of sharpest encounters It is sent into the soul as the soul into the body to animate move and guide it or as the Labourer into the Vineyard to work there It must purifie the heart Act. 15. 9. as well as pacifie it Sanctifie Act. 26. 18. as well as justifie Rom. 5. 1. It must fight the fight of faith 1 Tim. 6. 12. Conquer the victory of faith 1 Joh. 5. 4. It must pray the prayer of faith Jam. 5. 15. It must obey The obedience of faith Rom. 1. 5. and 16. 26. It must bee a shield to quench fiery darts Eph. 6. 16. as well as a hand to receive Christs bounty It must bee a Breast-plate 1 Thess 5. 8. It must endure trials The trial of your faith 1 Pet. 1. 7. wee are to live by faith Heb. 10. 38. Walk by it 2 Cor. 5. 7. Receive Christ by it to dwell and rule in us Eph. 3. 17. Resist Satan by this mainly that hee may not get into us or rule over us 1 Pet. 5. 9. Such a faith hath somewhat to do This faith no hypocrite can have His workless faith is a worthless faith The dead faith in the soul is like the dead flye in the boxe of ointment mars the whole Eccles 10. 1. like the Mare mortuum or dead Sea kills every thing that comes near it like the dead first born in the Egyptians houses filled the whole house with mourning Ex. 12. 29. 30. In a word like a dead image of Christ in stone or wood which though an ignorant Papist may adore an understanding Protestant will cast out of doors and abolish 2 Love is the second Nutritive grace and Labour is his Character Love is the glory of the soul and Labour the glory of Love But an unsound Professor wants both hee may have faith but hee wants love hee dreams hee loves God but hee hath no labour in his love It costs him little The spirit of love is ever the spirit of a sound minde and sincere Christian 2 Tim. 1. 9. Faith is a great strengthner but love much more faith makes the first union love the next and the last and most perfect Faith receives Christ Love roots and grounds in him Eph. 3. 17. Grows up to him in all things Eph. 4. 15. Faith makes the contract Love the consummation and the consummation is above any contract Faith Hope and Charity are the three principal Graces but Love is the principal of the three Faiths chief work is to work by love Faith and hope are onely for this life faith for present hope for Gal. 5. 6. the future Love is both for present and future this life and that to come Faith is an Evangelical grace Love an Angelical the work of faith is our work the work of love is Angels Love crowns the soul in heaven Eph. 1. 4. Love crowns the duty on earth Faith is a great uniting grace but Love a far greater Faith unites us to Christ but Love unites him to us and us to him reciprocally Faith unites but two Love unites all Faith us to the head onely Love to the head and to all the members Eph. 1. 15. Your faith in Christ and love to all the Saints Love is the union of Christians yea of Angels yea of the blessed Trinity Faith is a self-saving grace Love the world-saver Self-faith is best faith Hast thou faith have it to thy self Self-love is worst love have love one to