A02178:1900
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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he abhorreth it so that he forbade his people the very resemblance and representation of it, as a linsey woolsey coat, a hollow footed beast, and miscellen corn: he shall not come into my presence: and in the Psalm he saith, he could not abide the sight of him: and surely the surest punishment against any sin is to have our portion with the hypocrites.
he abhorreth it so that hee forbad his people the very resemblance and representation of it, as a linsie woolsie coate, a hollow footed beast, and miscellen corne: he shall not come into my presence: and in the Psalme he saith, he could not abide the sight of him: and surely the surest punishment against any sinne is to haue our portion with the hypocrites.
That we may know an hypocrite, we must judge him by that which is within. A father1 saith, we must look on him without, for example in admonishing, his outside is, brother cast out the mote, but lift up his eye lid, and you shall see his eye not answerable to his tongue. The Syriac word signifieth, *a face taker, his visor may be admonition, but it is a broken visor, for a man may see the timber through it, and so he is an impudent hypocrite. For the nature of hypocrisy, it may be described thus, *it is a sign without a thing signified: as when one thrusteth an hood over his head, or his head out of an hood, & hath no learning, an hood being made to signify much learning: and so there are more of these hypocrites4 than we would think of. We have Elijah his mantle, but where is his spirit? This hypocrisy is a sin of many corners & degrees. In every sin there is a mystery of wickedness, and a gross substance of wickedness, a leaven and lump of iniquity; so we may divide hypocrisy into the mystery and the lump: the mystery taketh hold on us all; and there