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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 â—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

1. 2. and dangerous Errors under glorious pretences Rom. 16. 18. These things are considerable as to workes And this not only whether it be a work really done from his heart that doth it but that it be such a work as is good and ought to be done And so Hypocrisie and Sincerity are considerable in relation to all the actings of a mans whole life as that of Amaziah 2 Chron. 25 2. Scribes and Pharises Mat. 23. and others 1 Kings 8. 62. Or to some particular actings of a mans life as that Gal. 2. 10. 2 Chron. 29. 34. 1 Kings 8. 48. 1 Chron 12. 38. 2 Chron 19. 10. Hypocrisy also as to the work may be said to be either expresse which is either where the thing done is being a good thing and commanded by God is done either against the heart or not with the whole heart or to a good but to a sinister end So Jer. 3. 10. Phill. 6. 5 6 7. Coll. 3. 23 22. Hosea 7. 16. Or it is Implicite and interpretative And so are all the glorious works of Piety Mercy Charity and Justice done by the Professor of Religion by men out of Christ and without Faith though done with never so much seeming integrity seeing they are not of faith without which it is impossible to please God For as the works are but Splendida peccata glorious sinnes so are they in some degree more or lesse done in Hypocrisie and they Hypocrites that doe them 1 King 21. 27 28 29 Acts 26. 29. And all these things thus done in Hypocrisie as before in any sort are opposed to the sincere obedience of the Faithfull Deut. 30. 10. 2 Kings 23. 25. 2 Jo. 4. Jer 24. 7. Esay 29. 13. Of such Hypocrites as we have spoken of that are rotten at heart there are diverse sorts There are Hypocriticall Nations that is such Nations as live not up to their Profession Such was the Jewish Nation Isa 10. 6. And such is any Nation now professing the Christian Religion that live not becoming Christians And there are Hypocriticall persons And amongst these Hypocriticall The Grosse Hypocritie Persons There are Grosse Hypocrites and Refined Hypocrites The Grosse Hypocrite is also either more Grosse or lesse Grosse yet both of them are very grosse The more grosse is one that either doth notoriously dissemble against his own light in what he doth of purpose to cheat and deceive others The lesse Grosse is one who doth maintain some grosse Errors or live in some grosse practise of Sinne. There are Hypocrites in Opinion The Nature of his Hypocrisie and Hypocrites in Action The Hypocrite in Opinion we call him that pretendeth to Truth of opinion to hold forth the very truths of God out of love unto them and yet maintaineth Error and Heresie And the Hypocrite in Action we call him that pretendeth to holinesse of life and reall coÌ„formity to Gods will without in his conversation where he hath no inward and hearty affection thereunto And both these are either more grosse or more refined The more grosse Hypocrite in Opinion is one who maketh a great shew outwardly of holding forth Gods Truth where he is inwardly in his heart such an enemy to it that he spreadeth abroad his errors and this he doth knowingly and of purpose to deceive So it is more then probable did the Pharises in some of their opinions which they could not but know to be Erroneous So some of the Gnosticks of old taught a lawfulnesse in Christians to commit Fornication by a Gospell liberty and to deny Christ in case of persecution to save themselves from death So Papists and other Hereticks now who teach unlawfulnes of marriages of meats and other such like things contrary to the clear evidence of the word These no doubt many of them did and doe know that they did and doe maintain Errors and Heresies and yet they did and doe continue to maintain them for some advantage to themselves 1 Tim. 4. 2. Speaking lyes in Hypocrisie The more Grosse Hypocrite in Action or practise is he that assumeeth a forme of Godlinesse and pretends to a forsaking of sinne and infidelity by Faith and Repentance within him when he hath only the shew and appearance thereof And he neither hath nor intendeth or desireth to have or doe any such thing and knoweth he doth dissemble and doth it of purpose to deceive others thereby This indeed is an Hypocrite in graine or an Hypocrite in the highest degree when a man shall pretend to the Truth of Religion and doth make it his whole designe trade or work therein to act Hypocrisie only Such a one is said to be a Cheator or Juglor that sheweth tricks and maketh appearances of things that really are not so as they appeare the same word in the originall it is said serveth for both And he is compared to a person disguised or a Stage-player who in the sight of others may act the part of a King or honest man but when he is in his tyring house is but a base varlet and he knowes himselfe to be so And such an Hypocrite the Devill is that sometimes appears like an Angell of light that he may doe the more mischief we call him so that Saints may not be ignorant of his wiles and the Scripture warrants it 2 Cor. 11. 14. Mark 1. 24. And so when he appears most innocently and piously he acts most wickedly and dangerously so Joab covered his perfidiousnesse to Abner and Amasa with friendly words and Syren like salutations when he murthered them 2 Sam. 2. 27. and 20. 9. And Ismael covered his bloody purpose to kill the eighty men Crocodile-like with Teares Jer 41. 6. Such were the Scribes and Pharisees who Viper-like covered their venemous teeth under their gumms of glorious shews and pretences Mat. 22. 15 16 Jo. 8. 3 6. Luke 10. 25 26. Such were Cain Saul and others mentioned in Scripture who made their Religion and profession a cloak only for the wickednesse And such a one is Antichrist the Arch-hypocrite of the World who covereth his Lyons teeth and Serpents taile with Womans haire a Mans face and the hornes of a Lamb Rev. 9. 8. 13. 1. So false teachers do cover themselves and their Wolfish cruelty with sheeps cloathing Mat. 7. 15. and these Scribes and Pharises made their Religion but a colour and cloak for their wickednesse Mat. 23. 14. Woe unto you Scribes Pharises Hypocrites for you devoure Widdowes Houses and for a pretence make long prayers c. So Absalom pretended the worship of God Zeale to Justice and love to the people of God when he intended nothing but the advancement of himselfe to the Crown with the death of his Father 2 Sam. 15. 2. to the 11. so Iehu pretends to a zealous Reformation in Religion and execution of Gods command when he intended nothing but his own advancement to the Throne 2 King 10. 15 16 17 18 30 31. So those named in Rev. 2. 9.

Tim 1. 2. c. Psal 58. 2. SECT IV. As he labours to cleanse his heart 4. Sincerity and Hypocrisie lye much in a mans labour or neglect to cleanse his heart The sincere Christian he doth desire and labour not only the cleansing of the outside and to seem to be good but also and especially the cleansing of the inside and rather to be then seem to be good Psal 119. 80. Let my hart be sound 1 Pet. 3. 3 4. whos 's adorning let it not be the outward adorning c. but let it be the hidden man of the heart c. Mat. 23. 27. 1 Tim 1. 5. The end of the Commandement that is the scope or substance of it is love out of a pure heart of a good conscience Psal 58. 2 and 52. 3. Acts 20. 13 20 21. Jo. 13. 26 27. SECT V. As he is more or lesse universall and compleat in his obedience 5. Sincerity and Hypocrisie lye also much in the universality and partiality of a mans obedience The true Christian his desire and labour is to be universally holy pure obedient and conformable to the whole will of God in opinion and practise in heart and life and to be compleat and perfect he will doe no more nor lesse then what God requireth in reference to Religion and what is betwixt God and him And in reference to his converse and commerce with men Either as to his office or to his calling or to his Trading or to his Family or to the poore or to the Rich Iob 31. 24 25 26 27 33. Psal i 78 72. And in his externall obedience to the word to be the same in all things He doth all that is commanded He is for all kind of works workes of Piety Charity Justice and Righteousnesse And for all sorts of Duties publique and private greater lesser those that are in and those that are out of request he is for prayse as well as prayer Luke 17. 13 15. And avoydeth all that God forbiddeth as David Psal 119. 6. 128. Zacharias and Elizabeth Luke 1. 6. and the Apostles Acts 2. 42. Ephe. 5. 1. Mat 16. 24. Phil. 2. 12. doth so in al times and alwayes In times of prosperity as well as in times of adversity In times of the flourishing as well as in times of the persecuted estate of the Gospell as David Psal 119. 44. 112. and 34. 1. and Cornelius Acts 10. 2. Phil 2. 12. In all places secretly and openly abroad and at home Psal 101 1 2. Phil 2. 12. Mat 6. 5 6. In all Cases in Health in Sicknesse in peace in trouble in plenty in want Psal 119. 54. 81 82 83. In all Companies good or bad Friends or Enemies Psal 119. 46 and 18. 21 23. 24. And it lyeth much in this as he is in his acts of Truth Mercy Justice and Righteousnesse towards men Mat. 23. 14 23. Esay 1. 11 12 17 Psal 119. 10â— I have refrained my feet from every evill way that I may keep thy word And on the other side herein lyeth much of Hypocrisie that a man doth not labour to be holy throughout but in part perhaps in his life only and doth allow of some evill in his heart against the will of God And for this that his externall obedience is lame and defective in some things that either he doth too much he joyneth with Gods commands the commands of men with the Counsells of the word humane Traditions and his own fancies So the Pharisees Mat 15. 2 3 c. Luke 18. 10 11 12. and the Jewes Hosea 5 1 2 c. Zeph 1. 2 3 5. Esay 65. 1 2 3 4 5 7. Mat 5. 19. or he doth too little and lacketh something as the young man Luke 18. 22. Either he doth not all that is commanded or he doth not avoid all that is forbidden or he doth by halves that he doth as the Pharisees Mat. 15. 3 6. as Herod Marke 6. 20 21 27. and Jehu 2 Kings 10. 1 2 31. c. and the Jewes Exod 16 28 29. and as some think Naaman 2 Kings 5. 18. and Saul 1 Sam 10. 10. compared with 14. 33 34. Hosea 7. 8 13 16. and Balaam Num. 31. 11. the Jews Isa 1. 12 13. c. the Pharises Mat. 23. 23. or that a man doth all that is required but not at all times not in time of adversity as in time of Prosperity so Jobs Hypocrite Joh. 27. 10. So Saul 1 Sam 13. 8 9 10. and 28. 7. and 15. 22 23. Psal 78. 33 34 35 36. Nor alwaies but doth start aside or fall quite away 2 Tim. 4. 10. 1 Jo 2. 19. Mat. 13. 20 22 23. Or not in all places he is better abroad then at home in publick then in private Psal 101 1 2 Mat. 6. 2 5. Or not in all cases in Religion Flourishing Cases but not in Religion Suffering Cases as Jobs Hypocrite Iob. 27. 10. the stony ground Mat 13. 20 22 23. 2 Tim 3. 10 16. or that a man is not the same in all company 2 Chron. 24. 2. Gal. 2. 13. SECT VI. As he is more or lesse Cordiall in what he doth 6. Sincerity and Hypocrisie lye much in these things as a man is more or lesse Reall and cordiall in what he appeareth to be and that he doth more or lesse really and cordially what he doth Eccles 9. 10. And for this 1. As he doth more or lesse appeare the same or otherwise then he is Or is indeed and Truth as he is in word or shew or as he is more or lesse in shew and not in Truth and Substance or as he is all leaves and no fruit Or 2. As he is more or lesse one and the same in his sayings doings or is all for saying nothing for doing or as his Saying and doings be not alike 3. As he doth more or lesse pretend to what he doth not intend Or that what he pretendeth be not intended either for the matter or end thereof 4. As he doth more or lesse in what he doth feignedly or against the heart in all or part And as he doth ' more or lesse entirely or partially throughly or by halves effectually or ineffectually act what he did intend to doe Ier. 12. 2 Mark 7. 6. Esay 29. 13. Psal 119. 10. 1 Tim 1. 5. Rom 6. 17. Psal 78. 34. 35. Mat 23. 13. Rev 3. 9. Rom 2. 28 29. And therefore where a man doth pretend to be Religious his Sincerity will lye in this that he be so indeed where a man doth pretend to Repentance Faith Reformation of life Fasting Prayer c. that he doe it truly and not in a flattering or feyned way or by halves much lesse to cover over any horrible wickednesse or to a wicked end as those in Hosea 7. 7 8. and Zeph 1. 5. 2 Kings 17. 32 33. and Psal 78. 32 33 Iames 4. 3. 1 Kings 21. 8 9 c. Mat 5. 1 2 3 c. Esay 29. 13. Psal 119. 10. Ier 3

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