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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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who judgeth all men to be as he was before he was laid open: he cometh1 to be uncased by this means, Augustine saith, when that is withdrawn from him, which he hoped for, it soon appears whether he be a wolf in a sheeps skin. We may2 see it in the matters of the Church, when there is preferment looked for. The fourth kind is in a sheep's skin, but his ears hang out so long, that he is easily espied, these are the broken visored hypocrites: to play the hypocrite, thus there needs no great wit: for an ass may be such an hypocrite, and any that can take him by the ears, may say, Thou hypocrite.
who iudgeth all men to be as hee was before he was laid open: he commeth1 to bee vncased by this meanes, Augustine saith, when that is withdrawne from him, which he hoped for, it soone appeares whether he be a woolfe in a sheeps skinne. We may2 see it in the matters of the Church, when there is prefermēt looked for. The fourth kind is in a sheepes skin, but his eares hang out so long, that he is easily espied, these are the broken visourd hypocrites: to play the hypocrite, thus there needes no great wit: for an asse may be such an hypocrite, and any that can take him by the eares, may say, Thou hypocrite.
- 1The third kind.
- 2The fourth kind.
There are seven notes to know an hypocrite by, in reprehending one, first they do [Greek or Hebrew] espy1 espy things, they do not [Greek or Hebrew], as Master Beza noteth. Hypocrites are narrow lookers, in Hebrew they are called spies, shifters, or sisters. The Christian man would rather they should be cast out (if they be infirmities) and he never see them, as Shem and Japheth covered their fathers nakedness, and saw it not; but Ham beheld and laughed at it: these are those which