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A94758	The hypocrite discovered and cured. The definition the kindes the subject the symptoms of hypocrisie. The prognosticks the causes the cure of hypocrisie. A discourse furnished vvith much variety of experimentall and historicall observations, and most seasonable for these times of happy designe for reformation. In two bookes. / By Samuell Torshell. With an epistle to the Assembly of Divines, about the discerning of spirits. Ordered, Novemb. 24, 1643. that this booke be printed, for Iohn Bellamie. Iohn White. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamie.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1938; Thomason E80_11	165,295	186

judging it is that is there spoken of and what subjection of spirit For though the learned Camera be absolute in it that the Apostle deales not there de probatione seu discretione spirituum but only speaks of order that the Prophets assembled had authoritie when it may be two or three might rise together to appoint who should speake and in what order and the rest to be silent And though I grant this may be the speciall intent of the place because of the Argument that follows Ver. 33. For God is not the Authour of confusion or tumult but of peace as in all Churches of the Saints i. according as it is the use and custome of the rest of the Churches with which the Apostle would have that of Corinth wherein haply were nourished some proud and forward wits to agree Yet may not this also be comprehended that the Prophets might and were to judge of the spirits of those Prophets who would be forward to rise and offer to speake Some it may be out of pride and stomacke some out of Envie least some others should be delivered of a choice notion before them some it may be pretending speciall revelation and commission to speake I doubt not but even yet a privater meeting of Divines in a Classis or Prophecying as they say they were wont to call the Monethly Exercises in Cheshiere and those parts heretofore but much more such a godly and venerable Assemblie as yours may judge not only of the Doctrine that is spoken but of the spirit of him that speakes Both indeed according to the Scripture yet not neglecting the gift that is in you and that ability of giving Iudgement which God hath trusted you with as such that have obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithfull 1 Cor. 7.25 The due exercise of this gift and judgment as it will be necessary in your testimony of such whom you commend unto the Parliament for the furnishing of those Congregations that are voided by the absence of such Ministers as have either shunned or justly fallen under the censure of our High Court So especially if ever you come to recover the possession of the antient right of Presbiters which the Bishops had so unjustly and tyrannically invaded I meane to be estated in and entrusted with the power of ordination 1 Tim. 5.22 it will be most necessary to that end that you lay not hands suddenly on any man which whether it be meant of Ordination or Absolution I find the Antients are not agreed But if the place be understood of Ordination as I have applied it It is a rock upon which many of our Bishops I know not whether All will be broken How suddenly to say the best of it have their hands been laid upon many witnesse the first Centurie lately published and Mr Whites pious and learned Preface Methinks many of them upon the perusing of that Book if it come to their hands should say of diverse names there which they know as Martian Arch-bishop of Constantinople said once of Sabbatius a wretched and unworthy man whom he had ordained to be a Presbyter Socrat. Hist l. 5. c. 20. We wish we had rather laid our hands on the briars then on such heads I have in this small Treatise endeavoured some discoverie and have judged such as serve not our Lord Iesus Christ Rom. 16.17 18. but their own belly who by good words and faire speeches deceive the hearts of the simple that we marke them which are contrary to the doctrine which we have learned Those that I have overtaken I have marked them nigro carbone and have presumed to shame them before your eyes I have done it with some liberty of speaking now and then more pleasantly then the majestie of preaching would allow For I preached the substrata indeed some while agoe but since furnished it with storie and experiments I had not communicated it but upon the advice and incouragement of some whose judgments I highly esteeme And indeed I had not put my last hand unto it but some of my books being rifled and others even all kept from me through the injury of the times and the calamity of those parts I have presented it to you as it is The Lord make every path smooth unto you and prosper you in yourway This is the prayer of The meanest of your fellow-labourers and your servant SAM TORSHEL To the Reader Good Reader THe worthy Authour was pleased to put a valew on my poore judgement it deserves not to commit and betrust this his pious and learned Treatise to my view and censure as a friend And I having justly encouraged him to make it thus publike could not but send this testimony also with it if it may any way encourage thee to reade it The Argument of it is that which was much the subject of our Saviour Christs own Sermons in his times Pharisaicall and outward Hypocrisie And is as usefull and necessary for these When Christ hath therefore reassumed his fan into his hand throughly to purge his sloore which this Treatise tends to in this Discoverie The composure of it is made up of a great variety of ●legant curious and delightfull learning He hath set forth the cure together with the discoverie which let every man that reades be attentive to make use of And by so much the more by how much that time is now approaching of which Christ hath long since said Behold I come as a theefe Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments Least He walke naked and they see his shame THO GOODVVIN A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS The first Booke CHAP. I. THe reason and use of the Treatise A prevention of mistake The order or method propounded to be followed Chap. 2. The Definition of Hypocrisie The originall words that expresse it The Genus The Differentia in the Definition Chap. 3. The kinds of Hypocrisie Unknowne Knowne Simple Dipt Doubl-dipt Chap 4. The Subject of Hypocrisie All men Carnall Regenerate Every age Sex Condition Chap. 5. The Symptomes of Hypocrisie The usefulnesse Pleasure Difficulty of this part The method in it propounded Chap 6. 1. Two Symptoms from the principle of working of Hypocrites They work not in Gods strength Not to or for God Their motion hath an externall and artificiall cause Chap 7. 2. The Symptomes of Hypocrisie from the end aimed at by them The first of these Symptomes Vain-glory. Affected carriage Affected habit Affected tone in speech Painted vertue Chap. 8. A second of those Symptomes from the end of Hypocrisie Religion pretended to serve other ends A cover for undutifulnesse uncharitablenesse Hatred of Godlinesse Revenge Ambition Chap. 9. The second Symptome from the end of hypocrisie further enlarged Two other instances Religion put on for sedition and for covetousnesse Chap. 10. A third of those Symptomes from the end of Hypocrisie Tendernesse and scruples pretended Straining at Gnats Scruples made to cover treachery rebellion envie

for no more And what can be an extreamer misery then this Recipere mercedem hìc paena est It was that cold comfort which was sent to Dives Remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things Ther 's Recepisti too still in the Preter-tense Thou hast already received ther 's no more due thou art cut off from further claime The praise and applause and popular estimation which they may haply have is the poore sorry trifle that is given them like a little-legacie to an ungracious sonne to cut them off from any further title to share in the inheritance of the children They have their habitation on this side the river but no portion beyond Jordan in the Land of promise Blow not the trumpet saith Christ as hypocrites doe when they give almes that they may have glory of men Verily they have their reward Love not to pray as the hypocrites that they may be seen of men verily they have their reward Be not of a sad countenance as hypocrites that they may appeare unto men to fast verily they have their reward A poore reward a poore happinesse yet sometimes they misse of that too Joh. V●saeus in Chronic. Hispan as that vain-glorious and hypocriticall Spanish Bishop of whom we reade who endeavoured to procure a great esteem of holinesse unto himselfe by lying wonders when because of his fame the King desired to see some miracle he hyred a poore man to faine himselfe blind but when the Bishop came in a solemn manner to lay his hand upon the poore mans eyes and uttered those words in imitation of Christ According to thy faith be it unto thee By the just and remarkeable judgement of God the poore man that saw well before in that instant lost his sight with great pain and revealed the compact to the great shame and confusion of that glorious hypocrite Socrat. Hist l. 1. c. 37. Theodor. l. 1. c. 14. Lev. 11.18 See Job 13.16.15.34 Luk. 16.15 The publike shame that God brought upon Arrius is an history so well known that I need not relate it God so hates hypocrisie that some think he forbad the use of some creatures to the Jews as being Emblemes of hypocrisie as the Swan which hath black flesh under white feathers the Ostrich which hath large wings but makes no flight But we need not rest upon such dark significations of his hatred when the Scriptures are so full and cleare Every one which seperateth himself from me Ezek. 14.7 8. and setteth up his idols in his heart and commeth to a Prophet to enquire of him concerning me I the Lord will answer him by my self He shall understand well enough that I discover him and how I stand affected to him And I will set my face against that man and will make him a signe and a proverbe and I will cut him from the midst of my people and ye shall know that I am the Lord that I cannot be blinded and will not be dallied with And as the Lord will not endure them in his Kingdom here in the glory of his Church in that happy time when Satan shall be bound up Mr. Archer of Christs Raign p. 28. So much lesse in Heaven but will cast them out into the extreamest and bitterest torments Which that they doe deserve the light of nature did apprehend Plutar. De his qui seró puniuntur mihi p. 203. as appeares by Plutarch an Ethnick who brings in Thespesius relating what he saw in Hell That hypocrites are worse punisht there then such as lived openly wicked And our Saviour seems to intimate so much That the evill servant shall have his portion with hypocrites Mat. 24 51. that is the extreamest and sorest punishment I might adde the consideration of those words threatned by Christ against hypocrites eight times repeated in one chapter Mat. 23. but enough hath been said how hatefull they are and shall suffice to have been said concerning the prognosticks CHAP. VI. The Causes of Hypocrisie The first Cause Entertainment of Religion upon sleight grounds The second Hypocrites know not nor believe in God The third Hypocrites want resolution I Hasten to the most needfull businesse Hypocrites enter Religion fleightly to the cure of this generall and dangerous disease which will more easily be made after we have sought into the causes which is the next head of discourse I propounded 1. One cause of Hypocrisie in some is that they took up a course of profession of Religion upon sleight grounds never being foundly converted They are cloth not well wrought in the loome and therefore shrinke and neither weare well nor long They began unsoundly in Religion their hearts being never throughly broken and humbled That man who is brought to a full sight of his sins and sense of his state and to see that he needs Christ or else must perish without him and is set up by Christ and hath received grace from him he it is that will live unto him The broken hearted penitent comes to be the most faithfull and obsequious servant Such a one knows what he oweth to Christ how much he is beholding to him 2 King 18.6 and counts him a good Master with whom he will stay for ever he will cleave to the Lord and not depart from following him as it was said of Hezekiah But for hypocrites Job 17.9 they never gave themselves fully up to God they never throughly washed their hearts and hands and therefore they hold not on their way but whereas he that hath cleane hands waxeth stronger and stronger these doe more and more decay Many of these have unripe resolutions they set on too forwardly before they are trained up and acquainted with the wayes of God Senec. Ep. 20. Grace is among those rare things that last long but ripen leisurely Such as will be in the Accidence before they are out of the Primmar never reade well Hypocrites were not well principled the foundation was not well and surely layed the truth had not rooting in them Truly this is a great mischiefe and misery we observe it in many that take up Religion for ends or by example or through imitation or upon some sudden acquaintance with some notions that for the present win upon mens good likings like some people that will be presently acquainted and familiar and become sworn brothers but 't is a frothy amitie begun it may be in one Tavern and will end in the next Many there are that being well and religiously educated civilized and more then so habituated to the practises of Religion mistake themselves at first it may be and think it is out of choice and love that they take that way which their fathers went and themselves went with them in their hand when 't is indeed but custome and use Others when they first set out meet with good neighbours acquaintance and friends who carry them along with them and so they become