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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

sea and land to make a proselite c. SECT III. 2 In their zeale The Hipocrite may have and hath as wee have shevved a zeale and this zeale may bee upon religious grounds as is and must bee the zeale of the true Christian and according to the dictates of his Conscience But vve shall find a vvidc difference betvvene the zeale of the one and of the other in these things 1. The true Christians zeale is after knovvledge received from the Word of God and it is for Christ and his truth Isa 8. 16. Rev. 3. 19. Tit. 2. 14. Numb 25. 11 13 But the zeal of the Hypocrite is nofter the knowledge of Gods Word but after his own or other mens opinions and inventions Rom 10 2. They have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge Mat. 15. 9 Gal. 4. 17 18. and against Christ as that of Paul was at first Phil. 3. 6 9. 2. The true Christians zeal is and springs from the work of Gods Spirit and his own faith in Gods word Jer 20. 9. Acts 19 19 20. But the Hypocrites zeal ariseth from some humane Motive Tradition Custom Education or some such like thing without and the corruption of his own heart within Act. 22. 3. I was zealous toward God as ye all are this day Mat. 15. 9. Teaching for doctrines the cōmandments of men Joh. 4. 20. 3. The true Christians zeal is accompanyed with a deep sense of his original and internal wickedness which the Hypocrite mindeth not Luke 18. 10 11 12. The Publican went up to pray c. He stood afar off c. 4. The true Christian being sensible of his own heart-emp●iness of Grace and the insufficiency of all things without Christ to fill it sets a low value upon all other things in comparison of Christ and longs after and looks for all from Christ Phil. 3. 8. Luke 1. 53. But the Hypocrite hath with his zeal a heartfulness and self-confidence of his own sufficiency Luke 1. 53. Mat. 5. 6. Rom. 10 2 3. For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness c. SECT IV. 3 In their love to God And the properties of true love to God The true Christian loveth God and so he must for this is the whole duty of man Mat. 22. 37. And so perhaps the Hypocrite may doe But there is a wide difference betwixt the one love and the other love thus The sincere love of the true Christian is 1 A rational and understanding love it ariseth from the knowledge of God his excellencies loveliness goodness beautie and works and especially as he is revealed in Christ by the Gospel Psal 63. 2 3. O God thou art my God early will I seek thee my sonl thirsteth for thee c. to see thy power and thy glory c. For thy loving kindness is better than life c. Psal 9. 10. Heb 1. 3. Joh. 14 9. 2 It ariseth from Gods love and the sense thereof to him and the apprehension he hath that God is a reconciled Father to him 1 Joh. 4 10. We love him because he first loved us Joh. 3. 16. Luke 7. 47 2 Thes 2. 16. 3 It is a natural love as the love of a childe to the father arising from his new nature as he is born and brought forth a childe of God And so he loveth God as in the relation of a Father to him Gal. 4. 6. And because ye are sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba Father Rom. 8. 15. 4. It is a pure love he loves God for his own sake and for the good he seeth to be in him and for the good he doth to others as well as for the good he doth to him And in this it is like to the true love of a man to a woman when he loves her only for her person and qualities sake and not for her portion Psal 34 8. Cant. 1. 4 15. Psal 63. 1 2 3. 5 It is an open and ingenuous love it moves the heart towards God as the heart of one faithful friend to another James 2 23. Ioh 3. 29. Ioh. 15. 14 15. 1 Cor. 13. 4. 6 It is a strong transcendent and supernaturall love And more and greater than his love is to his Father Mother Brother Sister Wife Children Self or any thing else in the world for he looks on God as his chief good and cannot be satisfied with any thing else in the world without him can acqui●sce in and be satisfied with him without all things else and for his sake he can and will do or suffer any thing and for the enjoyment of him he can and will part with his right eye right hand or any thing else whatsoever never so near or dear to him and in him is all his delight Mat. 10. 37. Heb. 11. 24 25 26 27 28 35. Rev. 12. 11. Cant. 8 6 7. Luke 18. 28. Psal 63. 1. 116. 7 8 4. 2. 5 7. Psal 37. 25. Luke 14. 27. 7 It labours to improve it self by all advantages and tha● it may love more Psal 116. 1. 8 It is a laborious and working love Gal. 5. 6. 1 Thess 1. 3. 9 It is a true love that runs through the whole man inward and outward The Thoughts 1 It will make them be all upon him Ps 113. 13. and 63. 6. ubi amor ibi oculus ibi animus 2 The Judgement it will cause it to set a great value on him Lam. 3 24. 3 The Desires it will make them to goe much after him Isa 26. 9. 4 It will make him content to wait for him Isa 26. 8 9. Psal 40. 1. 5 It will make him to be patient under delay and suffering till he come Psal 40. 1. 6 It will make the Will to close with him hold him fast and not to let him go Cant. 3. 4. Psal 18. 21. 7 It will make him rejoice in his presence and mourn for his absence c. Ps ●2 1. 11. 19. 8 It will make his tongue to be still talking of him Psal 119. 27. and 63. 3. and 145. 21. 9 It will make his hands still ready to be working for him 10 It will make the whole man to be ready to doe or suffer any thing for his sake Psal 119. 168. And not be satisfied but mourn that he can do no more for him 10 It is a lasting constant unchangeable and never dying love Cant. 8. 6 7. 11 It cannot be quenched and it doth manifest it self by these and such like signs and effects 1 By the hatred of evill Psal 97. 10. Yee that love the Lord hate evill 2 By the love of the godly 1 Ioh. 5. 1. Every one that loveth him that begat loveth him that is begotten of him 1 Pet. 1. 8. 1 Joh. 3. 13 14. 3 By pittying of and yeelding help to them in time of misery 1 Ioh. 3. 17. 4. By care to keep the Commandements of God Ioh.

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

when he doth it either to still the noyse of his own conscience or to get him a name or to procure himself some outward advantage in the world thereby Joh. 6. 26. Ye follow me for the loaves c. or at the most to save his soul by it and because that cannot be done otherwise And without any love to God to whom the work is done or love of the work done And without any respect at all to Gods glory or the good of other men Ephes 6. 5. Col. 3. 22. Not with eye service as men pleasers Matth. 6. 2 10. Ye doe it to be seen of men Mat. 23. 14. That ye may appear to men c. Or for a worse end James 4. 3. Ye ask amiss that you may consume it on your lusts Phil. 1. 17. 2 Cor. 4. 2. 5. 12. See more for this in Chap. 7. Sect. 21. Object It may be asked whether a man in the good he doth and evil he suffereth may not have an eye also to his own good a temporal reward here as wel as to his eternal salvation hereafter Answ To which we answer Yes doubtlesse 1 For God doth set this before him to encourage him in it and no Scripture motive can draw out any unlawful affection and whatsoever Gods VVord requireth the Spirit of God worketh by degrees in the heart of the Beleever 1 Pet. 5. 4. 2 The servants of God it is true have within them an ingenuous and supernatural principle whereby they love God and holy things because of the excellency of them even as a carnall man loveth sin because of the sutablenesse of it with his own heart And yet Gods servants in the things they have done and suffered have had an eye yea a fixed and constant eye upon their owne temporal and eternal good also for their encouragement therein Heb. 11. 14 26. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a Country For hee had respect unto the recompence of reward 3 Our Lord Jesus in that he did suffered had an eye to this Heb. 2. 2. Looking unto Iesus c. who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross c. And therefore all amor mercedis is not amor mercenarius Some make Gods glory and our happiness to differ as the supream and subordinate ends some as coordinate ends onely but to be sure GOD hath so infallibly eonjoyned them together that one cannot bee without the other So that by all this now wee may try our selves as to our workes and our works themselves whether they be such as God will approve whether they be wrought in God Gal. 6. 4. But let every man prove his own works and then shall he have rejoycing c. The more they doe answer to these rules the more perfect they are and the more they swerve from them the more they savour of Hypocrisie in them VVee shall now in the next place make some other uses of and infereuces upon all that wee have sayd and therein a little enlarge our selves upon the whole matter before layd down CHAP. XI Other Conclusions and Inferences upon all the premises HAving opened and laid down the main differences that are between the sincere Christian and the Hypocrite and how and wherein the true Christian doth and must goe beyond the Hypocrite in heart and life And having in this set forth the difficulty pains and charge of a true Christian life and how far many men goe therein and yet come short of heaven and how much there doth go to the making up of a sincere Christian we shall make some other inferences thereupon and uses thereof for the edification of our selves and others in the Christian Faith Some of which will be for Information or Instruction some for caution or admonition and some for exhortation SECT I. 1 For Information 1 To shew us somewhat of the reason of the Disciples speech to Christ and his answer to them in Luke 23. 23 24. Lord are there f●w that shall be saved And hee said unto them strive to enter in at the strait gate for many I say unto you will seek to enter and shall not be able c. And of Christs words Matth. 7. 13 14. Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth to life and few there bee that finde it And of that in 1 Pet 4. 18. If the Righteous scarcely bee saved where shall the ungodly and sinners appeare 2 To shew us that there is great cause to doubt that amongst the many glorious Professors of Religion in these days there may be very few sincere very many And if so may we not in our time take up the complaints and lamentations of the holy men of former times and of such times wherin were godly Kings and wherein Religion flourished as in the time of the Prophet David Psal 12. 1 Help Lord for the godly faile c. and of the Prophet Jeremiah Ierem. 5. 1 run too and fro c. and see c. and seeke if he can find a man if there be any that executeth judgment that seeketh the truth c. And of the Prophet Isaiah Isai 59. 15. Yea truth faileth and he that departeth from evill maketh himselfe a prey And of the Prophet Micah Micah 7. 1. 2. 4. the good man is perished out of the earth and there is none upright amongst men they are as the grape gleanings of the vintage c. the best of them is as a brier the most upright is sharper then a thorn-hedge where we have the best of them of the time compared to thorns and briers which are of a hurtfull catching scratching pricking vexing greiving nature to all that come neer unto or medle with them Ezech 28. 24. Numb 34. 55. Iudges 9. 14. 15. Iosh 23. 13. And are not most of the glorious Proffessors of Religion of our dayes such one towards another VVhat meaneth else the bitter Envy malice wrath jealousie contempt and evill surmisings of mens hearts within And from without the strife debate contention whispering back-biting slandering censuring judging threatning provoking scoffing scorning rayling reproaching sleighting by gestures words and deeds pass from one of them towards another And what else mean the manifold Heresies Seditions Calumniations Invectives Confusions and evil works that are to be found every where amongst the eminent Professors of the Gospel agreeing together in the Head Christ and substance of Doctrine about differences of ceremonie and circumstance Have not parties factions and interests almost devoured and eaten up all appearance of Sinceritie amongst us Prov. 20. 6. Most men proclaim every man his goodness but a faithfull man who can find 3 To shew that the sincere Christian is a rare piece and precious jewel in Gods account his delight is much in his heart is much upon him John 1. 47. Behold an Israelite indeed c. Psal 11. 7. His countenance doth behold the upright c. 4 To shew the gross mistake

whole heart with a perfect heart and willing mind with a true heart in sinceritie and truth 1 Chr. 28. 9. Deut. 10. 12. Heb. 10. 22. Hos 7. 14 15 16. That whatever they do in their profession they doe it to and for the Lord and no● to or for themselves or for other men Col. 3. 23. Hos 7. 14 15. That their repentance towards God faith towards the Lord Jesus their love to fear of and joy and delight in God and Christ and their profession and declaration thereof bee unfeigned and with all their heart and soul Prov. 23. 26. Deut. 30. 10. 2 Kings 23. 25. 2 Cor. 6. 6. Ps 78. 34 35 36. That they follow God fully Numb 14. 24. and Christ wheresoever he shall goe or call them Mat. 8. 19. That whatsoever they doe unto men be not done with eye-service as men pleasers but as doing the wil of God from the heart heartily with singleness of heart with good wil as the servants of Christ as serving him fearing God and as unto the Lord. Col. 3. 22. Eph. 6. 6 7 8. That such as pretend to the faith love and obedience of and suffering for the Lord Jesus Christ that they doe it in sinceritie to exalt his honour and the honour of the Father in him Eph. 6. 24. Joh. 5. 23. That whatsoever they speak to men be the truth and from their heart 1 Thes 46 Ps 52. 2. Jer. 9. 5 6 8. Prov. 26. 22 23. c. Gen. 34. 13. 2 Sam. 3 27. Psal 15. And that they talke walk and live like Saints that they be not only hearers and talkers but doers of the Word of God James 1. 2 2. and that their hearts be purified and their hands be cleansed Iames 4. 8. that those as name the Name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. Mat. 7. 22 23. Psal 119. 1 2 3. That the Rulers be Ministers of God for good to the people revengers to execute wrath upon him that doth evil Rom. 13. 2 3. And that they be not a terrour to good works but to the evil That they rule in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23 3. To the glory of God and the good of them that are ruled especially of the people of God amongst them 2 Sam. 23. 2. Ps 78 72. 1 Tim. 3. 4 12. That the Judges professing godlyness be such as feare God men of truth hating covetousness Exod. 18. 21. That in their judgement they doe take heed to what they do and consider that they judge not for man but for the Lord who is with them in the judgement And that the fear of the Lord be upon them and that they doe take heed and doe it as considering that there is no iniquitie with the Lord nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts 2 Chron. 19. 6 7. And that the Teachers and Preachers preach the Truth Feed the Flock of God taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind not as Lords over Gods heritage but as ensamples to the flock 1 Pet. 5. 1 2 3. That herein they seek not their own but the things of Iesus Christ Phil. 2. 21. and the good of others 1 Cor. 10. 24. 33. not to please themselves or men but to please God Gal. 1. 10. 1 Cor. 10. 33. that they give no offence to God or man 1 Cor. 9. 20. And that in all they doe God may bee glorified the Name of the Lord Jesus exalted 1 Cor. 10. 31. 6. 20. the peoples souls saved Gal. 6. 10. and they themselves be able to give up their account therof with joy at the last day Heb. 13. 17. And now for our last word to others that do not so much as appear to be the friends but rather the enemies of Christ Let us perswade them onely to lay down their weapons and give over their opposition against Christ for he will be too strong for them It is hard to kick against the priks Acts 9. 5. 1 Cor. 10. 22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousie are we stronger than he Mat. 21. 44. And therefore what the Prophet Ps 2. 10 11. said to great men we say to all Be wise now therefore c. kiss the son c. And now having set forth wherein the Christians life doth consist and the difficulty thereof it is high time we lay down some motives or encouragements and helps therein CHAP. XII Arguments to perswade to Sinceritie and against Hypocrisie in the general THE next thing we have to do is to lay down something by way of motive to perswade not only to a Christian life but also to Sincerity and against Hypocrisie therein And this first in general And in the next place in particular services to perswade us to be Christians indeed to the profession of the Christian faith and to sincerity therein And to move us to labour to bee and to keep sincere in our state or in the general Besides what we have before layd down let us take up and use these following considerations 1 Hypocrisie in Religion is a sin we are all very prone to for every man by nature is an Hypocrite and every true Christian hath more or less hypocrisy in him Job 31. 33. If I cover my transgressions as Adam by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom Gen. 3. 12. Hence it is that Christ bids his Disciples beware of it Mat. 6. 1. Luke 12. 1. 2 Yea it is much to be feared that Hypocrisie in Religion is now very common and that Hypocrites are very many and that Hypocrisie is now become the general disease of the time because there is now more to breed feed it than in former times Religion is now in request the greatest and most of men be religious Religion is now looked upon with a good eye and religious godly men are now in great esteem with the greatest men of the time so that it is now as in the time spoken of in Esth 8. 17. The Iews had light and gladness and joy and honour c. and a good day and many of the people of the land became Iews for the fear of the Iews fell upon them A false heart will work upon this and the man in whom it is will for his outward advantage in the world put himself into any form of Religion 1 Tim. 6. 5. 3 The sin of Hypocrisie in the nature and working of it is a most dangerous sin For 1. It is a soul-pleasing sin being a part of the old man and natural to us Ps 52. 3. thou lovest evil c. and lying c. Hosea 12. 7 8. Col. 3. 9. 2 It is a soul killing sin Acts 8. 21 22 23. 3 It is of a very infectious nature Gal. 2. 12 13. 4 It is as we have said a very common evill where the contagion of the plague is common the danger is greater 5 It is hardly discerned in him in whom it is It is as