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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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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, Act. 5. Paul among many dangers, setteth this down as a chief one, that he was in danger among false brethren. S. John the Evangelist in his Revelation prophecieth, that the Church should never be more grieved, than by such as had women's faces and hair, and Lions teeth. The complaints of the Prophets against them is manifest in their terms, Pots with scum cakes bak•n on one side. Ostriches with great f•athers and of little flight. But Christ inveigheth specially against them, for he threateneth seven woes against them that be hypocrites, where he never is found to do the like against any sinners. To look more clearly into this sin, it is opposite to God the Father, he is a being, this a certain show; God is one, and hath made him one, but the hypocrite he maketh himself two, an heart, and an heart: the hypocrite leaveth a little place for religion, and the rest he leaveth for that which he ⟨p. 201⟩loveth more than religion, and in this division he giveth the worst to God, that is, that which is without; he opposeth himself against God in his heart. God is truth, and the hypocrite hath a lying profession, unhallowing the name of a Christian, and seducing those that are simple, which is a common note of hypocrites; so they are deceivers & deceived, as Absalom and Ishmael. They are opposite to God in his goodness, he is good, they are evil within, and that which is worse, they cover evil with good. We may see God his detestation of this sin by his expostulation,