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A19289	The estates of the hypocrite and syncere Christian Containing, certaine liuely differences, betweene synceritie and hypocrisie; very necessarie, for the tryall of our estates in Grace. By Tho. Cooper.	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1613 (1613)	STC 5699; ESTC S115596	59,087	262

Refined and made more pure and durable Hebr. 11. ●6 Ps 66. Rom. 8. 29. 3 Oh let vs distrust all other portions if we haue not our part in this riches And if euer we haue tasted how sweet the Lord IESVS is let vs not seek after great matters seeing Christ is sufficiēt If God shal cast vpō vs earthly possessions let not our harts be set vp on them Psal 62. 10. least wee exclude this heauenly treasure If the Lord shall empty vs of outward things yet let it suffice that we cannot loose the best treasure Nay let it comfort our hearts that now wee haue more triall of our loue thereto nay more le●surē and occasion to employ the same And yet howsoeuer the world may basely esteem of vs for want of these outward things Hebr. 11. Ioh. 16. 2. and shall thinke it doth God good seruice in stripping vs of them yet let vs here learne to ouercome euill with good Rom. 12. praying for them that persecute vs and doing good to them that hate vs that so wee may proue our selues the Sonnes of our heauenly Father and so maintaine our Right in this heauenly inheritance preparing our selues hereby gratiously thereunto Math. 5. 4 And seeing the Saints haue onely the true and great riches All are beggers and banquerouts in comparison of them let this teach vs what to thinke of such Ignorant Protestants and obstinate Papists what of al Turks and Infidels that yet are without Christ surely they are a poore people and without vnderstanding Ierem. 4. 22. they haue no part in Christ and therefore no portion of heauenly riches And therefore let this prouoke vs further to lament their estates and to mourne for the generall ignorance of the Land Let vs acknowledge the Iustice of God in pleading his controuersie against the same Vse 4.1 because there is no knowledge of God in the Land And if the Lord hath emptied vs of our wine and oy●● our first borne his outward blessings if we sow much and reape little and that which we reape be put into a broken bagge Agge 1. 9. Let vs consider the true cause because the house of God lies wast we despise and reiect the true and spirituall riches And therefore let vs learne the true remedie First secke the kingdome of God and the righteousnes thereof and then all these things shall be cast vpon vs. Math. 6. 33. And seeing the haruest is great and the labourers few tha● should bring vnto vs these heauenly treasures Oh let vs mourne especially for the hand of God in this particular Iudgemēt 4 And let Ezechiel be asigne of the consumption decreed Ezech 12. Esay 28. 22. Oh let vs pray for and labor the conuersion of our brethren Let vs not forget the First-borne of our Father of whose fatnes we are now partakers who hath bene made poore that wee may be made rich seeing our pouertie now sh●l be the means to enrich him againe Howsoeuer Let euerie one labour to saue his owne soule Labouring to store vp against the dayes of ●amine And to employ his Talent while there is yet light Iohn 12. That so hee may maintaine and encrease his estate Is not the night comming when no man can worke are not the shadowes drawing to the West Rom. 11. And seeing manie boast of their Riches and Righteousnes and yet who can finde ● Faithfull man Prouerb 6. Therefore in the feare of God labour wee to trie our estates whether wee are partakers of that durable Riches Surely by Nature wee are starke Beggars and by abuse of the meanes of grace wee become Desperate Banquerouts euen twice dead and pluckt vp by the rootes And therefore if we would approue our selues to haue this heauenly riches we must not relie on our nature any glory thereof seeing the wisedome thereof is enmitie against God excluding the hope of heauenly riches Rom. 8 7. 1 Wouldst thou thē attaine to the true riches in Christ Let thy first practise now be to discerne thy natural pouerty by the meanes before laid downe 2. And hauing discerned thine estate in nature thou must in the next place denie thy selfe Math. ●6 22. acknowledging that neither in nature is there any dramme of this true riches neither can nature further thee thereunto Nay thy greatest enemie in y e obtayning thereof thou shalt find to be euen thine owne wicked heart thy best wisedome and counsell will cause thee most to rebell against thy God and resist thy chiefe good Esay 47. Thus shalt thou prepare thy selfe to receiue this heauenly treasure by emptying thy heart of ● what cannot profit and so castingaway such impediments thou shalt be in some measure fitted to entertaine the same 1 To this end take vnto thee the true glasse which many discouer truely vnto thee thy naturall estate namely the law of God Rom. 7. And when thou hast seene thy face therein cast not away the glasse least thou forget thy true feyture lacob 1 But rather reuiewe thy selfe often therein according to the checks of thy cōscience cōuinced by the word make vse of such outward Afflictions which doe accompanie the word the rather to abase the pride of thy flesh and to confound thee in thy carnal happines And prosecute the Enditement of thy conscience by Iustifying the Lorde and condem●ing thy selfe arraigning thy selfe at the barre of his Maiestie and casting downe thy selfe at the Throne of his Grace begging Pardon instantly for thy sinnes and quite renouncing all thy former wayes That so thou mayest be found in CHRIST not hauing thine owne righteousnes Now that thou mayest be found in CHRIST thou must in the next place labour to seeke CHRIST where he may be found Esay 35. And now thou must seke him in those his precious promises of the Gospell Apprehending through him alone free pardon of all thy sinnes And so recouering grace from him to walke in newe obedience And least seeking him heere thou mightst happily misse of him thou must seeke by Faith that so thou mayest applie these promises in particular vnto thine owne Soule And thou must waite with Patience at the gates of Wisedome being contented to submit thy selfe to the meanes till thy heart be captiuated therewith thy whole man brought in subiection to the obedience of Iesus Christ Prouerb 8. And lastly thou must seeke in perseuerance and constancie of endeuour Y e though thou faile in practise yet the willing minde may be accepted according to that which thou hast 2. Cor. 8. 12. resoluing thy selfe that thy great riches stands rather in the acceptance of thy endeuours then in any worth of thy weldoing though yet thou shalt exceed herein the Scribe and Pharisie Yea y e God may ●aue onely the glorie of all his mercies Let this be the triall of thy greatest riches that though the Lord bestow great things on thee yet thou seest thy selfe most vnworthie of them Genes 32. Yea the more graces thou receiuest the more

these Onely let vs be so wise to discern these cloakes of shame as not to stumble at them what is good in the hypocrite let vs not refuse because he doth abuse it what is euill in him let vs so detes● as that still we loue his person and labour his reclayming So shal he returne vnto vs and not we vnto him though we be all in all vnto him that we may winne him vnto Christ Iesus so if we cannot better him yet he shall not make vs worse though happily we may be abased by his malice and frowardnes yea ought to be humbled that the Church is troubled w t him But shall be not he be troubled that troubles Israel Behold and tremble at the issue hereof doth he not very fearefully deceiue himselfe and others Yea surely The euill and vnbeleeuing shall waxe worse and worse deceiuing and being deceiued 2. Tim. 3. 13. Obserue how the glorious Lord confound the wisdome of the wise and taketh them in their owne craftines First the hypocrite deceiues himselfe As First he is blinded he knowes not his owne estate and so must needs be deceiued because he wil not see it And so is giuen vp 2 To conceiue better of it then it is And because he will not take the paines for a better therefore he deceiues himself esteeming this sufficient And to this end he deceiues himselfe further 3 By reiecting the power of the word which might lead him to a further measure vpon pretence that he hath no need of it or it is not sufficient to informe him 4 Choosing such false waights as may make his copper cu●r●nt as Example and reuelatrō tradition multitude And that he may yet furter deceiue himselfe Behold 5 He abuseth the true Rule to further this delusion either sticking in the letter and so deceiuing himselfe thereby in an outside holines or abusing the same to iustifie his ambitious tyrannie ouer the consciences of men Nay he cannot kepe himselfe within this narrow compasse vnlesse he also abuse the Lord of glory himselfe and so further deceiues himselfe most dangerously hereby To this end he arrogates the prerogatiue of God to Iudge of mens estates that the Lord may Iudge him iustly that vniustly Iudgeth of others Thus doth he encroach vpon and abuse his Iustice in corder●ning the righteous and absoluing the wicked that so he may be an abomination to the Lord. Thus doth he presume of his mercies that he may exclude repētance Thus doth he abuse Gods patience to nourish securitie that so a suddaine destruction may come vpon him And thus doth the hypocrite deceiue himselfe And doth he not also deceiue others Yea surely and that many waies and so also deceiueth himselfe by encreasing his condemnation As first he deceiueth them of their outward estates vnder pretence of deuotions deuouring their substance and emptying their purses vpon a vaine hope to haue some true riches for their soules Secondly hee deceiues them in their estimation and good name making them either partakers with him in his filthines or else for the credit of profession to conceale and iustifie the same Thirdly he deceiues them in the maine matter of their saluation And that 1 In their affections making them through his scandall to hate religion before they knowe it and so keepes them out from entring into the fould 2 In their Iudgements when they are entred either stinting them to the letter of the word or his sence thereof not enduring the trial of the spirit or vpon pretence of insufficiencie in the word stumbling them with his own fancies in steed of Gods reuealed will and so keepes them from practise as being not certaine what to do 3 In their practise he also deceiues them as either tying them to his scant measure or stumbling them by his crooked turnings and wandrings out of the way whereby either they neuer attaine to the right way of practise or else are turned out of it againe Gal. 3. by his prophane and deceitfull walking And so he further deceiues them of the true recōpence either prouoking to vaine glory or deceiuing of others for the satisfying of the flesh by attaining honours riches c. 2. Col. 23. And thus hee deceiueth himselfe and others 1 The summe and vse of all is That wee wisely measure the glory of an hypocrite by the issue thereof that so wee may not be dazeled and deceiued thereby 2 That wee daily labour to see our pouerty in our selues that so we may seeke after the true riches Math. 5. 3 That we account our onely riches the righteousnes of Christ apprehēded by faith and transforming vs into the same Image from glorie to glory Plut. 3. 8. 9. 4 That we expect and hunger after these riches not to be fully enioyed in this life but rather to be obtained when corruption shall be put off Phil. 3. 13. 5 That considering the terrors glory of that day we are daily made manifest vnto our God and also vnto the consciences of such his seruants with whom we are most cōuersant 2. Cor. 5 11. 6 That we endeuour the hastning of the apperāce of Christ and our owne fitnes thereto by plucking some daily from some noysome lust 1. Cor. 13 And prepare we our soules daily to afflictions that so suffering with Christ we may raigne with him 2. Tim. 2. Euen so Lord Iesus let thy Kingdome come to subiect vs under thy Scepter that so we may be made meete partakers of that glorious Inheritance with the Saints in Light Thus farre of the Estate of the Hypocrite and his wisedome in making the best thereof Now let vs consider on the other side the estate of the Regenerate Hitherto thou hast heard deare Christian of the true estate of the Hypocrite Namely that he is worth nothing all hee hath is onely for the good of others and his owne further condemnation And that it may appeare y e our destruction is from our selues thou hast also heard of the Hypocrites carnall wisedome in the Husbāding of his estate Namely that he makes himselfe rich Assuming the esteeme and shewe of what he hath not that so he may the better hide what he is and so ripen his sinne and hasten his condemnation And shal not the consideration hereof cause thee to feare thine estate and depart from euill daylie shall it not send thee to the true Touch-stone to trie and examine thy selfe Beholde then a liuely patterne follows for thy instruction and beeing directed hereby thou shalt find soūd comfort Though out of the former discouery thou shalt safely conclude that there are but few good hearts that so thou mayest not content thy self with the broad way yet shalt thou now see that God hath not left himselfe without witnesses thou shalt not go alone Blessed be God thou hast a clowd of witnesses the way is well beatē and traced for thee And therfore in the name of God walke in it and the Lord giue thee wisedome and vnderstanding