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A93117	Sincerity and hypocricy. Or, the sincere Christian, and hypocrite in their lively colours, standing one by the other. Very profitable for this religion professing time. / By W.S. Serjeant at Law. Together with a tract annexed to prove; that true grace doth not lye so much in the degree as in the nature of it.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?; Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691. Tract annexed to prove.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3210; Thomason E1822_1; ESTC R209797	215,937	433

and 2. 12 13. 2 Pet. 3 9. And laying aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us let us run with patience the race that is set before us H. b. 12. 1 2. and 2. 1 2 c. and so much the rather be diligent to adde one grace to another and one degree of Grace to another c. 2 Pet. 1. 6 7. c. And let us work out our salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2. 12. Let us endure the cross despise the shame Heb. 12. 2. Take up the cross and follow Christ Mark 10. 21. Suffer and die with him 2 Tim. 2. 11 12. Leave all for his sake Mark 10. 28. Strive to enter into Heaven Luke 13. 24. and take it by force Mat. 11. 12. Fight the good fight of Faith and finish our course 2 Tim. 4. 7. do the singular things required of us Mat. 5. 47. Afflict our soules Lev. 16. 29. James 4. 9. Put a knife to the throat Prov. 23. 3. Mortifie the deeds of the body Rom. 8. 13. Crucifie the old man the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5. 21. Rom. 6. 6. Deut. 10 16. Let the fore-skin of our hearts be circumcised and let us circumcise our selves to the Lord and let us break up our fallow grounds Jer. 4. 3. 4. Be crucified to the world and the world to us Gal. 6. 14. Keep down our bodie 1 Cor. 9. 27. Pull out our right eye and cut off our right hand that causeth us to offend Mat. 5. 29 30. Suffer the losse of all things and count them but dung for Christ Phil. 3. 8. 9. Refrain our seet from every evil way Ps 119. 10. Strive for Masterie 1 Cor. 9. 25. and rejoice as not rejoicing 1 Cor. 7. 30. And thus doing we may be sure and certain that we are not cast-awaies 1 Cor. 7. 27 Gods wrath shall not break forth upon us Jer. 4. 4. We shall not come into condemnation John 5 24. nor be cast into hell fire Mat. 5. 29. and 188. that we shall never fall 1 Pet. 1. 10. that wee shall not die but live not perish but have everlasting life and glory John 3. 15. 2 Tim. 2. 9. 10. 11. Mark 10. 30. Rom. 8. 13. And we may be confident that we shall enter into joy Mat. 25. 23. life Mat. 18. 8. rest Heb. 4. 2 Thes 2. 8. live and raign with Christ 2 Tim. 2. 11 12. Rom. 8. 13. Have and enjoy the incorruptible crown of Righteousness life and glory 1 Tim. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 9. 24 25. Rev. 2. 10. be received into everlasting habitations Luke 16. 9. enjoy the fulness of pleasures at Gods right hand Ps 16. 11. and be satisfied Ps 17. 5. Sit down and feast for ever with Christ and his people Mat. 8. 11. and that we shall go into life eternal Mat. 46. And we cannot misse it for ours is the kingdom of heaven we have eternal life and are passed from death to life i. we are as sure of it as if done already Our sixth and last word of Exhortation is to all that now doe or hereafter shall appeare as Christians and follow Christ in the profession of Religion and have a form of godliness To perswade them to Sincerity and against Hypocrisie herein to be pure and upright in heart and life And that they lye not to God and men whiles they pretend to be and have the name of Christians and are not so indeed but counterfeit ones onely To perswade them and oh that we might prevail herein that they would lay aside al manner of guile and deceit herein And labour to be plain simple hearted in thought word deed That they do not compass God about with lyes and flatter and dissemble with him whiles their hearts are not right and perfect before him That they do not pretend to prefer God above all have no other God but him whiles they love fear and trust in themselves and other men and things more than God seeke the praise of men more than the praise of God That they call not God their Father and Master whiles they despise his Name and do not honour him as a sonne his father nor fear him as a servant his master That they doe not teach Gods fear by the precepts of men That they give not to God a worse when they have a better to give him in his service That they do not pretend to enquire after seek serve and obey him with their whole heart whiles they seek themselves and to serve themselves upon God therein That they do not pretend to faith love repentance fear and the like towards God whiles they know there is no such thing but the contrary thereof in their heart That they doe not pretend to draw nigh to God in his worship whiles their hearts are far removed from him it That they do not pretend to form of godlyness whiles they deny the power thereof That they do not say they know him and keep not his commandements That they doe not professe to know God whiles in their works they deny him That they do not say they are Saints whiles they live like not devils That they do name the Name of the Lord unless they depart from iniquity And as for Rulers of Churches Christian Commonwealths and Families Judges and such like men that they say not they rule and judge for God and lean upon him whiles they seek themselves and their own things and not the things of God and the peoples good And for Christian Teachers c. That they say not they are of God sent of Christ Ministers of the Gospel workers with Christ c. whiles they appear to be deceitful workers to speak lyes in hypocrisie to deceive the simple with fair words to seek to please men to seek their own things and not the things of Jesus Christ to serve their bellyes to make merchandize of mens soules to hunt after filthy lucre and so goe themselves and lead others with them to destruction And that neither Heads Priests nor Prophets leane upon the Lord say He is amongst us whiles they judge for reward teach for hire and divine for mony Mic. 3. 11. Ps 50. 16 17. Mat. 23. 27 28. Isa 29. 13. 1 Joh. 2. 4. Mat. 7. 22 23. Is 43. 24. Ps 78. 36 37. But on the other side let us perswade such men professing godlines That they get the new life the immediate principles and habits of Grace and the operations motions effects and fruits thereof And then that they labour for and get a perfect heart a heart perfect with the Lord. 1 Chron. 29. 19. That they walk before God in truth and with a perfect heart 2 Kings 20. 3. 2 Chron. 29. 2. Gen. 17. 1. That they do the thing that is good and right with a perfect heart as in Gods sight 2 Kings 20. 3. 2 Chron. 25. 2. That they draw near to serve seek God with their

named particulars within this Section See Numb 23. 10. Let me dye the death of the Righteous Numb 24. 2 3 c. 1 Cor 11. 30 31 32. For this cause many are weake c. If we would judge our selves c. but when we are judged we are chastned of the Lord that we be not condemned c. which would seem to have this intimation that notwithstanding all your gifts Parts and progresse in Christianity if you have secret evills and do not labour to find them out and judge your selves for them you may be condemned with the world 1 Cor 15. 19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ c. which words seem to imply thus much That if all our Parts gifts desires works c. reach and look no farther and last no longer then for this present life that our Faith Hope c. be but temporary moved from and carried to something that is not beyond this life we are in a sad case it will doe us no more good then the wealth glory and good things which Dives had Luke 16. 25. Io. 6. 27. 1 Cor 13. 8 13. 1 Pet. 1. 22 24 25. Seeing ye have purified c. Being borne again not of Corruptible seed c. By which words are intimated thus much That unlesse you manifest the work of the spirit within you in obedience to the truth by having your hearts purifyed and by an unfeyned pure and fervent love of the Saints beyond that work which is wrought in the hearts of Hypocrites you will not have the evidence within you of that Regeneration which is true and effectually wrought of God by his spirit through the word by which there is effected an immortall seed of Grace that abideth for ever But if it be only some morall vertues or common gifts be they never so excellent and glorious that have the face of the new Creature and he in whom they are be not a new Creature indeed they are reckoned with God but as flesh which is as gr●sse and the flower of the field they will doe a man no more good nor last any longer then riches honours and such like things which are but for this life only Phil. 3. 4 5. 2 Pe. 3. 4 It is said Psal 106. 11 12. then believed they his words that is when they had seen such signall manifestations of Gods power and working for them against their enemies they were for the present as full of Faith in God his promise and joy as a bladder of wind they soon forgat c. it had no root nor well grounded principle they fell back But lusted exceedingly c. Mat. 13. 21 22. Phill 3. 4 5 19. 1 Tim 6. 5. 2 Pe. 3 4. Exod 14. 31. compared with 15. 23 24. Numb 13. 26 27. c. 14. 1. 27. c. And thus he may strive in his inward as well as in his outward man to enter into heaven and not be able Luke 13. 24. SECT IV. What it is that doth carry the Hypocrite thus farre And why he goeth no farther If it be asked how it comes to passe that an Hypocrite doth goe so farre We answer 1. That he may be drawn or driven to it by some or all of these following means 1. He may be drawn hereunto by the work of his naturall Conscience Rom 2. 15. Rom. 1. 32. For when the Gentiles that have not the law doe by nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law to themselves which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts their Consciences also bearing witnesse c. Prov. 20. 27. The spirit of a man is the Candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly Or by occasion and reason of some eminent and miraculous work of God done before their eyes Io. 4. 41 44 45 46. c. Except ye see signes and wonders ye will not believe or by occasion of some eminent work of Gods Providence done for his people or against their enemies or by the feare of death or some great affliction upon him Psal 78. 34. When he flew them then they sought him c. Psal 106. 11 12. And the waters covered their enemies c. then believed they his words they sang his praise they soon forgat his works c. Or by occasion of some light breaking in and some powerfull conviction upon the Conscience by the word and Spirit of God whereby it is pressed and moved to doe what it doth Perhaps it cannot otherwise be in peace It may be it is convinced there are some good and desireable things to be had and duties to be done in the profession of the Christian Faith and happily it may find more temporall good in such a life then in a wicked loose life 2. He may be moved or brought hereunto by Education discipline or example of Parents or such like persons under whom he hath been brought up So by Education many Creatures have been brought to be quite contrary to their nature and so doe many strange things And by this means he hath perhaps taken in some truths and taken up a profession or customary practise of doing some good And by custome herein he hath as it were gotten another nature and now doth act almost as freely as he that acts Naturally by grace and so he doth continue till by strength of temptation he be taken off and so discovered Luke 8. 12 13 14. This seems to be the case of Joash who continued good all the dayes of Jehoiadah 2 Kings 12. 2. This being that which moved him when this was gone his Action ceased 3. But there are many carnall and corrupt ends that draw in and bring on so many into a profession of Religion and that doth make them to engage so farre as to follow Christ a great way and a great while therein For some enter into a profession of Religion out of a designe and desire to doe mischiefe in it And this sometimes doth make men act vigorously as if Religion were their principall aime So some ●●ve joyned themselves to the Church of Christ and preached and made profession of the Gospell of purpose to destroy the Gospell and overthrow the Church of Christ Gal. 2. 4. False brethren c. who came in privily c. that they might bring us into bondage Phil 1. 16 17. Some preach Christ of envy c. supposing to add afflictions to my bonds that is by drawing away the more to the Profession of the Gospell and so enraging the enemy the more against mee or by exalting and preferring of themselves before me so as to hinder the fruit of my Ministry Some engage in a profession of Religion that thereby they might cover some wickednesse they are intending to doe or in doing Prov. 7. 14. 1 Kings 21. 9 12. But most commonly and most men herein are carried forth in their profession of Religion from selfe love to and for selfe-ends as

fear of God The true Christian must fear God 1 Pet. 3 14 15. Jer 5. 22. Mat. 10. 8. And he doth so Nehemiah 7. 2. Mal. 3. 16. But there is also a kinde of fear of God in the heart of the Hypocrite But the differences are many and great between the one and the other 1 The fear that is in the heart of the true Christian is a Sonne-like fear and joyned with love and he doth fear the Lord as well for his goodness and mercy as for his judgments Hos 3. 5. They shall fear the Lord and his goodness But the fear of the Hypocrite is as the fear of a slave or a servan towards the master or as a prisoner to the Judge And he fears the Lord for his judgements onely Isa ●3 14. Fearfulness hath surprised the Hypocrites who among us shall dwel c. 2 In the measure or degree The fear of God in the true Christian is a transcendent fear hee feareth God above all Heb. 11. 22 23. Mat. 10 26 28. Gen. 39. 9. But the Hypocrite feareth man more than God Mat. 21. 26 27. 3 The fear of God in the true Christian causeth him to depart from all that is evil and to doe all that is good Prov. 8. 13. and 16. 16. But the fear of the Hypocrite makes him rather to forbear the doing of good and to adventure upon the doing of evil Mat. 25. 24 25. 4 It is a lasting fear but that of the Hypocrite onely temporary and soon gone Exod. 14. 31. and 15. 23 24. SECT XVII 16 In the frame of their heart in what they doe or suffer The true Christian doth and must reform his life And the Hypocrite seemeth to doe so for the evill spirit seems to be cast out of him also Mat. 12. 45. But there is a great deal of odds in the frame and disposition of their hearts therein both in the first undertaking and in their further acting and that in the leaving or omission of evil and in the doing of good and their motives and ends therein The true Christian in his first undertaking of the profession of Religion doth design and aim at an universal and compleat obedience conformity to the whole will of God to keep all his Commandments Ps 101. 1 2 3 c. 119. 6. When I have respect to all thy Commandements Heb. 13. 18. We trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly Acts 24. 16. But the design of the Hypocrite is to go so far and doe so much therein as may serve to his own end which is not to please and glorifie God but to please and advance himself And hence it is that it doth sometimes forbear to doe the good he ought to do and sometimes forbear to do the evil he ought not to do sometimes doe the good he ought to doe Mat. 14. 5. Mark 12. 12. Luke 20. 19. and 22. 2. Joh. 9. 22. And in his further acting in what he doth and in what he forbeareth to doe All that the Hypocrite doth think of in the forbearance of or flying from evil is to forbear it for his own end therein But the true Christian therein is moved from the fear of God Gen. 39. 9. Prov. 14. 1. and the hatred of sin Ier. 4. 4. And all that he doth think of in doing of good is the work to be done as in Praier only to pray c. But the true Christian is carefull of the manner and order of his doing of the disposition of his heart and his aim and ends therein That in it he be carried out from the conscience of the command of God and his obedience thereunto his love to God 2 Cor. 5 14. That hee be swayed more therein by the fear of God than the fear of men and with desire to please God rather than to please men and that he take more care to fulfill the will of God than of men Gal. 1. 10 Nor do I seek to please men c. Psal 119. 24. That what he doth be done by the rule of Gods Word Luke 18. 20 21. That he doe it with his whole heart willingly and cheerfully Psal 110. 3. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power As for example with this acknowledgement of sin there is joyned a heart broken for sin hating it resolving against it and faith in the blood of Christ 2 Sam. 24. 10. Psal 51. 4. Luke 18. 10. Dan. 7. 7 8 9. Ezra 10. 2. Mark 1. 15. And he hath an end beyond himself and the saving of his soul To please God to doe it to the Lord for Gods sake as well for his own sake for the advancement and glory of the name of God and Christ as well as for the good of his own soul Phil. 1. 21. For me to live is Christ that is Christ is both the author and end of my life I live for him I live in him I live by him I live to him or all the gain that I aim at in life or death is to glorifie him Acts 20. 24. and 21. 13. I am ready to dye for the name of the Lord Iesus Mat. 6. 9 13. Rom. 9. 3. Lam. 2. 18. But otherwise it is in the heart of the Hypocrite in all that hee doth of good and forbeareth to do of evil It is for his own end He leaves his sin but loves it stil He hath not left it for love of God possibly he may leave it for some fear of God and his Judgements or fear of men as Magistrates Ministers Parents and the like and fear of some harme that may come to him by them for he hath a slavish fear Gen. 28. 8. Mat. 14. 5. but bee is the same man and hath the same mind still as he had Prov. 1. 22 28 29. He loveth simplicitie c. So he may confess sin without any heart broken for or broken from sin without any hatred of sin or purpose to leave it or faith in Christ at all as Iudas Saul and Cain did 1 Sam. 15 24 25. Mat. 27. 2 3 Gen. 4. 4 c. Deut. 1 41. Prov. 28. 13. And he leaveth evill and doth good from the love to himself and for his self-satisfaction and that he may doe himself good thereby either for his own ease or for his own glory and applause or some other advantage that hee hath or hopeth to have thereby to accrew to himself for he is mercenary John 6. 26. Ye seek me not because c. but because ye eat of the loaves and were filled He may make again by godliness and so for self ends and out of self love doth seek himselfe and serve his own ends altogether whiles he pretendeth to seek God out of love to him and to serve the Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 16. 18. Serve not our Lord but their own belly Phil. 3 19. whose God is their belly 2 Tim. 3. 4 5. Lovers of their own selves c. Lovers of

judge uprightly As a snaile which melteth let every one of them passe away like the untimoly birth of a woman that they may notsee the sun Before your pots can feel the thorns he shall take them away as with a whirlwinde both living and in his wrath Job 20. 58. That the triumphing of the Hypocrite is short and his joy but for a moment It shall fly away as a dream or as the good that one dreameth of The true Christian shall have sound peace and joy and be in safety but the Hypocrite in continual danger and feare Prov. 10. 9. and 28. 18. The true Christian can goe to God with boldnesse and confidence in any time of trouble and God will heare him 2 Kings 20. 3 4. And Hezekiah prayed and said O Lord remember how I have walked before thee with a perfect heart c. 2 Cor. 1. 12. For our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience c. Psal 26. 1. But the Hypocrite in such a case cannot doe so either hee will forsake God therein and not seek to him as Iudas Mat. 27. 1 2. c. Or if he doe God will not hear him Iob 27. 9. will God hear his cry when trouble cometh The true Christian shall be either preserved from or in and under all times and cases of temptation and affliction and be well delivered out of them For God is his defence and his everlasting arms are about him and hee will comfort support and save him Psalm 37. 19. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time Mat. 7. 24. Mat. 13. 5 6 7 8 23. Psalm 84. 11. God is his shield c. Is 33. 16. He shall dwel on high his place of defence shall be the munitions of Rocks c. 2 Chron. 16. 9. For the eyes of the Lord run too and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himselfe in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him Psalm 119. 80. Psalm 25. 21. Psalm 97. 11. 2 Sam. 22 23 24. 25. Psalm 7. 10. But the Hypocrite being forsaken of God his heart shall faile him and hee will forsake God Isa 33. 14. Fearfulness hath surprised the Hypocrites who amongst us shall dwel with the devouring fire Mat. 13. 5 6 7. Job 27. 9 10. and 8. 20. Neither will he help the evil doers Prov. 11. 5. 6. The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness Length of dayes shall be to the Sincere Prov. 3 2 16. But the Hypocrites dayes shall be shortned Psal 109 8. Let his dayes be few c. The upright man shall be guided of God in the right and safe way to everlasting life Prov. 11. 3. The integrity of the upright shall guide him that is it shall be a starre to leade him in a good way as a guard to keep watch and ward about him and make his way passible and prosperous to his desired end Ps 129. 23. But the Hypocrite shall be left to Satan and his own wickedness to be carried to destruction as Iudas 22 Luke 3. Mat. 27. 1 2. c. Psal 109. 6. Let Satan stand at his right hand 2 Thes 2. 10 11. The upright man he shall have much comfort in his death to remember that he hath been upright before the Lord yea this will more comfort him then the remembrance of all his good works be they never so many and excellent he hath done Is 38. 3. Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight And in death the upright man is blessed for as hee hath hope Prov. 14. 32. so commonly hee is in good heart Acts 7. 59. But however he shall have peace and enter into rest at that day Ps 37. 37. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Isa 57. 2. He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in his uprightness But with the Hypocrite it shall not be so And for the life to come and after his death the upright man shall be blessed for he shall stand boldly and confidently in the last judgement and lift up his head with joy when Christ comes Luke 21. 28. Lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh Psalm 49. 14. And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning When the Hypocrite shall be cursed for he being utterly disappointed shall be miserably ashamed and confounded Psal 119. 80. And his hope shall perish and he shall not be able to stand in the judgement he shall call to the mountaines to cover him and run into the holes of the rocks to hide him if it were possible from the face and wrath of Christ Rev. 6. 16 17. Is 33. 14. The sinners in Sion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised the Hypocrites c. Job 8. 13 14. And the Hypocrites hope shall perish and whose trust shall be as a Spiders webb Psalm 1. 5. Job 27. 8. And further the upright man shall be taken up into the kingdome and glory of Christ to be with him for ever Mat. 5. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Ps 37. 18. Their inheritance shall be for ever Ps 50. 23. And to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God Mat. 25. 34 36. Psal 15. 1 2 5. When the Hypocrite shall be shut out of heaven and with the workers of iniquity thrust downe into hell for ever Phil. 3. 18. whose end is destruction Mat. 25. 1 10 11 12 And the door was shut Afterwards came the other Virgins saying Lord Lord open to us but he answered and said Verily I say unto you I know you not Luke 13. 24 25 26 27 28. and he shall answer and say unto you I know you not whence ye are Then shall ye begin to say we have eaten and drunk in thy presence and thou hast taught in our streets But he shall say I tell you I know you not whence you are depart from me all you workers of iniquity There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Iacob and all the Prophets in the kingdom of God and you your selves thrust out Mat 25. 41 46. And they shall goe into everlasting punishment and there shall they suffer the vengeance of eternal fire with the Devil and his Angels and be shut up in the blackness of darkness or utter darkness and to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever Iude v. 7. 13. 2 Pet. 2. 17. Mat. 13. 41 42 43. The Son of man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them which do iniquity wherin Hypocrites are especially intended Mat. 13. 24 25 c. v. 49 50. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire