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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

pollicie of Satan which will not sticke if he cānot tickle vs with pride and lull vs in securitie at least to deiect vs with the consciēce of our vnworthinesse and insuffi●iencie of Gods Blessings 1. Because others haue more 2. Or they are giuen not for good because we cannot but in some measure abuse them 3 Or they are decayed and therefore not entending our perfection 4. Or they are common and ordinarie and ther●ore not to be regarded To preuent this abasing had had we not need to make ou● our selu●s poore to see our vnworthines of the least and therefore to blesse GOD for any to see the sufficiencie of what we haue aboue our desart that so we may giue God glorie that makes what we haue to serue the turne to be so abased in our decay that still we are contented to abase our selues further in giuing vnto our GOD the glorie of his faithfulnes that he will recouer satisfie vs againe to be so abased in our abuse that yet we can be more abased in renouncing our owne righteousnes because we are corrupt and yet the more ab●sed in giuing the Lord the onely glorie of all his free mercies by resting alone vpon CHRIST for the acceptance of well doing Thus must we abase our selues to preuēt satans abasing 6. Lastly let vs consider that if wee make not our selues poore to preuent securiritie and vnthankfulnes Our God will abase vs and that many wayes 1 both denying comfort of his graces Yea 2 Taking them from vs yea leauing vs to reproachefull and grosse offences yea yeelding vs to the smiting of a wounded spivite and shal we not then preserue peace of conscience by abasing our selues shall wee not preuent the reproach of our profession shal we not preserue the comfortable vse of Gods blessings yea shall wee not take down the pride of our harts that the graces of God may not be taken from vs Well let these motiues serue to prouoke vs to this holie wisedome comforting our selues that we can neuer be losers at Gods hands if he winne glory by our abasing of our selues 2 Nay the more we loose in conceite of Gods blessings the more we shall gaine in the vse of them the more we shall reape c●mfort by them And therefore in the feare of God let vs set vpon the practise of this dutie And the Lord giue vs vnderstanding in all things and accōplish his owne worke which he hath begun in vs euen for his blessed sonne Christ Iesus his sake our onely Lord and ●all sufficient Sauiour To whose glorious Maiestie with God Almightie the father of all spirits and God the holy Ghost the guide and comforter of the Elect. Three persons in Trinitie ou● God in Vnitie Mig●● and Ma●estie As we acknowledge to be due so from the ground of our hearts we desire to be giuen All glorie power dominion might maiestie thanksgiuing and entire obedience of vs and all the Churches from this time forth and for euer more Amen Conclusion to to the Reader THus hast thou Christian Reader a briefe of such Meditations which it hath pleased my good God to impart vnto mee concerning the Estates of the Hypocrite and syncere Christian as also of their seuerall wisdomes in Husbanding their Estates My harts desire is that thou wouldest laye these thinges close into thy heart neither stūbling at the want of complement which my leisure and weaknes yea indeede the matter it sesfe would not afford or at such obscuritie which partly the briefe hādling but especially the matter being experimentall may giue occasion vnto But in the name of God Iudge wisely of my drift heerein And labour with thy God in prayer that thou maist s●und the depth thereof And seeing thou wilt hardly plough without my hayfare therefore let this experience be a meanes to prouoke thee to discerne thine estate And so buy thou in the teare of God that spirifuall eyesalue o● thy Sauiour Tesus Christ labouring to be found in him not hauing thine owne righteousnes That so being pertaker of his spirit thou maiest be able to discernt all things comparing spirituall things with spirituall things And so being able ther by to trie all things thou maiest hold that which is good that it may hold thee for euer Certainely if euer Times had need of direction and resolution these are they wherein because we will not obey the truth it is ●ust with God to giue vs vp to strong delusions to beleeue lies In so much that if it were possible the very elect might be seduced I would it were not more then manifest that euen the most are growne cold and carelesse of what they should i● not staggering in their Iudgements yet vnstable in that practise readie to embrace this present world but that the world flies from them Blessed be our God who knowes what 's best for vs how gladly would we serue God and Mammon too how willingly would we haue our heauen here and yet not forgoe our right thereof in another life But our GOD will not endure our halting he confound● our confidence in exceeding mercy And happie is he that can prepare his soule to afflictions Certainely if we will not trie our selues the Lord will take vs further in hand haue we not had enough alreadie for the iniquitie of Baal peor for our sparing of B●nhadad and enduring the viper in our bosoms that poysons our people daily and stings them to death but that Ham●n must be further aduanced and poore Mordekay humbled Hath not the spanish Inuasion yet scholed vs to haue no fellowship with Gods open enemies hath not the powder Treasons taught vs what to expect of secret Enemies The Lord make vs wise to see the plague aud hide our selues Hath not the Lord fought against vs with all the Elemēts hath not the Infections ayre brought vpon the land euen A seuen yeeres pestilence raging scowring our most secure and eminent places euen round about And hath this Iudgement yet brought vs to see the plague of Atheisme and Securitie the plague of Hypocrisie and Pr●phanenesse that is in our harts and spreades it selfe as a leaprosie ouer all the quarters of the Land Haue not the fearefull Earthquakes so often of late renued in our most lof●tie palaces signified plainely vnto vs that the Land is wearie of her burthen and doth threaten to spew vs out doe they not forewarne to tremble and stand in awe of the Maiest●e of our God and obey his Prophets lest being pertakers of the gainsayings of Core our mother earth at length shall swallow vs vp and so in the middest of our securitie we shal sinke downe into Hell can we forget how the Lord hath pleaded his controuersie further against vs Nay doe we not see how still this controuersie is renued euen by most strange and fearefull fires arresting not onely our solitarie corners● and obscure Villages as if the poore igno●āt

forme and glorie of religion thereby more dangerously to deceiue himself by resting therin and to deceiue others by tying them to his measure Tim. ● 5. 13. and causing them to stumble at the infirmities of the Saintes 5 Yea he may liue all his daies in prosperitie that so hee may the rather flatter himselfe in the worth of his profession and he may die in a glorious carnall peace to the great slūbling of the world and abusing of his vaine heart Iob. 21. 13. Ierum 12. And so he may be iustified and approued of the world that o●nes him whereas the Saints may liue in co●tinuall afflictions and die in much trouble and anguish of spirit and so for a time be condemned both in life and death of an vnbeleeuing vniust generatiō Psal 34. 3 All this and much more in particular of which else where God willing is the portion of the hypocrite And yet for all this in the truth he hath nothing How so First because he hath no right in any thing that hee hath he is but a thiefe and a Robber an Vsurper of Gods graces And therefore whatsoeuer he hath is none of his Well may he prouide and prepare it as a Cooke but the righteous shall be fed therewith he shall gather siluer as the dust but the Saints shall diuide it Iob. 27. Ioh. 10. Secondly he hath no right vse of any thing that he hath his consciēce is defiled and so all things are impure vnto him and how can he but abuse and peruert the same Either missing in the ground as not doing it in Faith or failing in the manner not according to the rule of the word or abhorring from the right end the glorie of God Tit. 1. 15. Rom. 14. 1. Cor. 10. 31. That which he doth proceeding from naturall knowledge or good intention and meaning or at the best a vaine presumption or temporarie faith his manner of doing being in wilworship and bodily seruice which profiteth nothing his end being to rob God of his glory and transferre it to himselfe and so to expresse some degrees of the sinne of Antichrist euen to aduance himselfe aboue all that is called God and yet to satisfie the flesh make his belly his God 2. Coll. 3. Phil. 19. to sacrifice to his net and so make his wit industrie his God In a word meerely to seeke himselfe and to put out all sense and vse of the diuine power Matt. 13. 2 Coll. 25. 1. Tim. 4. 8. 2. Thess 2. 10. Abac. 2. Thirdly also the hypocrite may be said to haue nothing because he hath no true comfort and successe in what he hath Though the Lord giue him his desire yet he sends leannes into his soule Psal 106. 15. he hath either some inward gripe of conscience or some outward leprosie accompanying his greatest and securest reuellings in his most glorious happines Prouerb 14. 3. 2. Rom. 5. 27. somewhat there is so scarres and crosses him that all his honour is nothing vnto him the cōscionable walking of the Saints confounds his pompous and outside profession Hester 5. The poore vineard of Naboth lies so conuenient that he cannot hold vp his head nor eate his meate vnlesse he may embrue his hands in blood to enjoy the same 2. Kin. 29. some such like thing there will be stil to procure enuie discontent that so though hee hath somewhat yet indeed beholding it often in the true glasse of the word and the holy examples of the Saints hee sees it to be nothing in comparison of what others haue And yet such is the strength of delusion that he is giuen vp vnto that what he wants in substance that he will make vp in complement and shew and so indeed is nothing to that he seemes to be faine would he seeme to be perfect if you will beleeue his shewes nay if you will beleeue his owne word he saith he is rich and encreased in Goods and hath need of nothing Reuel 3. 17. And yet the spirit tells him he is poore and blind and miserable he hath nothing of what hee saith because he makes himselfe rich therefore he hath nothing And well were it with him if hee might bee his owne Iudge though hee were deceiued in himselfe yet hee might be approued of God But obserue I pray you a further measure of Gods iudgement vpon him that what is highly esteemed of M●n is abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 15. because the hypocrite so ouerrates his goodnes and standeth vpon his terms of vprightnes and perfection therefore the Lord reiects his confidēce Ierem. 2. and condemneth his painted shews and vaine boasting The Publicane that confesseth his sinne is accepted when the proud Pharisie that boasteth of his righteousnesse making it seeme greater then in trueth it is is therefore reiected of God Luke 18. because his person is abominable Thus hath the hipocrite nothing because it is not accepted of God whose acceptance only giues true valuation and worth to all our actions which in thēselues are worthy nothing but shame and confusion Dan. 9. And can the Iust and holie Lord doe otherwise Doth he not loue truth in the inward parts Psal 51. Is the Hypocrite any thing in the truth Is that he hath ought to what he should haue surely hee should be vpright in hart but he hath seuen abominations yea deceitfulnes the root of all he should haue his profession and practise answere eache other but alas must not his Iacob-like profession cōdemne his Esau-like practise Is he not of his father the diuell euen a murtherer of his brethren though hee professe himself to be the sonne of Abraham Iohn 8 44. Thus is the hypocrite nothing to that which he should be And therefore it is iust with God that He shall be nothing to what he would be He would be happy And yet of all men shall be beaten with most stripes Math. 25. He would be honoured of the people 1. Sam. 15. And yet is hated because he makes profession yea more iustly scorned because hee shames his profession hee would enioy the pleasures of sinne with greedines yet is hee often brideled with the credit of his profession And so is more inwardly enflamed to Lust and enraged against God And that wee may yet further behold and admire the Iustice of our glorious God Obserue I pray you that Howsoeuer the Hypocrite denieth the power of goalines yet would hee faine retaine forme and shew thereof that so he may still deceiue himselfe and others But doth not the Lord euē reuert this his confidence often times Dooth hee not take away his restraining spirit and giue him vp with all greedines to break out into grosse sinnes Rom. 1. 25. 26 Doth not the Hypocrite hereupon labour to dead his conscience by reiecting knowledge that so hee may cōmit sin more secretly without controlmēt F●hes 4. Doth he not plainly 〈◊〉 Departs