A02178:1907
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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A fist sign is of an hypocritical Ephraimite. The Tribe of Ephraim said, Why were we not1 called? But good men care not who do it, so it be done: the other show that they desire not the fact, but the glory of the fact. Thus they espy, and cannot cast out any sin: it is twenty to one, that such hypocrites cannot so much as espy sins aright, and yet they will promise a casting out too, they take upon them more than they can do.
A fist signe is of an hypocritical Ephramite. The Tribe of Ephraim said, Why were we not1 called? But good men care not who doe it, so it bee done: the other shew that they desire not the fact, but the glorie of the fact. Thus they espie, and cannot cast out any sinne: it is twentie to one, that such hypocrites cannot so much as espie sinnes aright, and yet they will promise a casting out too, they take vpon them more than they can doe.
- 1The fist note.
The sixth note is, they will be doing with motes: It may be asked, whether these fellows1 have no neighbours with beams in their eyes? Certainly they have: why then do they speak so to that brother, that hath the mo•e? This is an infallible note of an hypocrite: for as Chrysostom saith, It was rather to make a stop-game, or that he might seem very just: for which cause he spieth out the best to reprehend, that he may seem as good as he.2 For the way to make men even, is either to grow higher, or because he could not do that, he will pull the other lower: which indeed he cannot do. But hypocrites thinking their tongues are their own, will be bold to do it to them which are good.