circumvention: inſtead of Jiving by : their faith,they hve by their /hifps. Theſe
by this artifice they may grow rich. I
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* Ile "morbus Vix et tance LA fanabilis qui ſanitarem
1mitatur.
” Quiſe meliores exiſti- they who * need #0 Repertance, manrt 2 pierate prorſus,
abalienantur. By»gen/.
"The heart {may - be- fill \of pride and |
The Do@rine of Repemtance. 4. Repentance' is neceſſary for cial
perſons < theſe have no vilible ſpots on them; they are freefrom groſs fin, and one would think they were-unconcerned-
in the buſmeſ#' of Repen- They are fo good, that they ſcorn a Pſalm of "mer- cy. Indeed theſe are often in the worſt condition : theſe are
Lake 15.7. Their civility un- does them-3 they make a Chriſt of it,and ſo onthis ſhelf ſuffer ſhipwrack, Morality ſhoots ſhort of Heaven zit is only nature refined: A: moral man is but old Adam dreſled in fine cloths. Fhe Kings Image counterfeited -and no_ upon Braſs,' will not go currant. "The civil perſon ſeems to have the Image of God, but he is but braf wetal, which will
never paſs for currant :- Civility is inſaf- | ficient. to ſalvation : though the life be | moralized,” the Juſt may beainmortified. |
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Atheiſm: -Under the fairleaves of a tree there may be-a worm. / I ſay not, repent * that you are c1y1l,- but that! you art no more than civih © Thetouſe that wason- ly ſwept aBd garniſhed; Satith entred Wokp
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The Do@rene of Repentance. Enke'11. 26. This was the emblem of a moral man, who 1s ſwept by civility, and garniſhed 'with common gifts, but 1s not. waſhed by true Repentance ;, the unclean ſpirit enters into ſuch an one. If civility were ſufficient to ſalvation,Chriſt needed not to have died. The Civilian hath a fair'Lamp, but it wants the oyl of grace, ' 5, Repentance is needful for Hypo- criter: I mean, fiich as allow themſelves in the fin., Hypocrifie is the counterfeit- ing of ſanity. The Hypocrite or(ſtage- pla 7er*) isgotten a {tep beyond the mo-
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rahiſt, and:doth dreſs.-himſelf in the garb — of Relipron ; he.pretends to a form-of god- wiate Dei.
lineſs, but denies the power, 2 73m. 3. 5. Fhe Hypocrite 1s a Saint in jeſt; he
clothed itt Ermyn;or Purple. The Hypo-
*Foris can= 46 Get : didus,intus | makes'a' majeſtick- ſhew, like an Ape fordidus.
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crite 1s like an- Houſe. with, a beautiful. agavera
dark;: he is a rotten poſt fairly gilded * :
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frontifpiece, but, every room within is pingunr, & .. ; : { &+- c ; 37 y "> | {? _ * rreqopeni- _ under his malk of, provelney he-hides his unt, quid e Hypocrite is again{t as .
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painting of faces, but he paints holineſs : curpius > he is ſeemingly good, that he may be re- H#0o:. ally. bad *. © In Sammels mantle he plates * Ala Fr. the Devil ; therefore the ſame word in wulans, a-
7 the otiginal-ſignifies to uſe Hypocrifie, q
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90 The Do@rine of Repentances | Qn:. andto be prophane *. The Hypacrite ſeems to have his eyes nailed to Heaven,
but his heart 1s full of impure luſtings ; he
*Lacer in- ]iyes in ſecret fin againſt his conſcience*;
lg he can be as his company 1s, and a&t both. -
nou vers the Dove and the Vulture; he: heaxs the -
=—mg word, but is af ear; he is; for .Temple-. Pier... devotion, where others. may.look upon. him, and admire him, but he negle&s 5 - mily and cloſet prayer. Indeed, if. prayer, doth not make a manleave, ſin, fin_will- » make him leave prayer. The, Hypocrite: - . . feigns humility, but it is that he may riſe inthe world;-heis a pretender to faith, buthe makes uſe of it rathec for a cloak, than aſhzeld ; he carries his Bible under his arm, but not in'his heart ; his whole: Religion is ademurelye, Hoſ, x1. 12... | But is there ſuch a generation of men | to be found ? the Lord forgive them their holineſs. Hypocrites are z# the gall of.
bitterneſs, AF.8. 23. O how had they, |
need humble themſelves in the duſt! they are far gone with the rg?, and if any thing cure them, it muſt he feeding up-' - on the (alt Marſhes of Repentance. = Let me ſpeak my mind freely, none will find it more difficult to repent than Hypocrites 3 they havelo jugled in Re-
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The DoFrine of Repentance. g1 ligion, that their treacherous hearts know not how to repent. Hypocrilie 1s harder tocure than Phrenſie *. The Hy- * Difficilius 'Docrites Impoſthume in his heart ſeldom 2
reaks. If 1t be not too late, ſeek yet to fania. ©
od for mercy...