A02178:1901
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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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 there5 be two kinds of it. The first and the best oversay themselves, but they do something; they commend more in word than in practise. The other are such as say & do not, this is gross hypocrisy. Again, hypocrisy hath two ends. God his glory should move us sufficiently, but we must have some other end with it, and this is in the best men. Augustine saith, that there are but few which be not spotted with hypocrisy, but because his step was too wide, he mends himself, & saith next, Surely not one. The lump or actual hypocrisy hath four kinds. The first kind is, when a man is delighted with feigning any good, or intention of6 any evil. The second kind is a perilous & close hypocrisy, wrapped up round in a sheeps skin, that no man can spy him, but that eye that seeth all things, and, if any man calleth him7