A02178:1898
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
Part 2 › Treatise 9: A TREATISE OF HYPOCRISY.Part 2 › Treatise 9: A TREATISE OF HYPOCRISIE.
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Seeing there be such a sort of sore eyes, and so few Chirurgeons, it is good to stay in reprehension,1 till we have cast out our beams: and this is but reasonable, that a man should first cure himself. But because many will not stay for all this, Christ waxeth angry as it were, and calleth them hypocrites: where saith Chrysostom, he showeth himself very angry: for this word when he useth it or such like, as O cuill servant ▪ O painted tombs ▪ generation of vipers, it is not any little offence that he speaketh against.
Seeing there be such a sort of sore eyes, and so few Chirurgions, it is good to stay in reprehension,1 till we haue cast out our beames: and this is but reasonable, that a man should first cure himselfe. But because many will not stay for all this, Christ waxeth angrie as it were, and calleth them hypocrites: where saith Chrysostome, he sheweth himselfe very angrie: for this word when he vseth it or such like, as O cuill seruant ▪ O painted tombes ▪ generation of vipers, it is not any little offence that he speaketh against.
- 1Why & how the Lord is sometime hot in speech.
The name of an Hypocrite is abhorred of God and man. As it was said of Octavius and1 Antonius, they hate a tyrant, but not tyranny: so it may be said with us, we hate an Hypocrite, but not hypocrisy. Thus we may see first in real hypocrisy, we cannot abide a course cloth with a fine list, nor fruit fair without, and rotten within; nor timber straight without and hollow within; nor light weights and false wares. In the Common-wealth he that poisoneth a man, and he that killeth him with the sword hath not the like punishment, because the first is greater, in that he killeth him hypocritically. In the Church the fathers appointing punishment and penance for divers sins, set down for hypocrisy, the greatest punishment, in prima quadragesima. Peter was first moved at this against Ananias and Sapphira,