A02178:1909
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 last note is, Matth. 23. They lay great burdens on others, but touch them not themselves 1with the least of their fingers. You do well (say they) to lead such a strict life, they will have other men live like Angels, and they themselves like Devils. Some more effectual notes, and of more common use than these are set down, Matth. 23. But some may say and gather hereupon: If it be a gross hypocrisy to reprehend, I will not deal with it at all: and these are either fearful, or wickedly subtle, and they are worse than the other. We must not mislike the doing of an hypocrite further than God misliketh▪ his misliking must be our rule: and he blameth him not for the outside, but for the inside. A reprehension is good, but in him it is ill accidentally, as the best things in the Gospel may be. The Pharisees were reprehenders, and our righteousness must exceed theirs, that is, comprehend theirs and more. Augustine saith well: Sheep may not therefore cast away their skins, because wolves sometimes are coated with them. Every outward thing in their hypocrisy was good, making of Proselytes, keeping Saints memories: and he that hateth them for their abuse, shall prove himself a fool in the end. Another kind of men may conclude and think, that those that are such open offenders and riotous, not to be hypocrites, and it is all they can boast of, I am no hypocrite. But we know that he is a singular hypocrite, by2 Christs own testimony, that hath a beam in his eye: Surely they are of the brotherhood of hypocrites. Isaiah, chap. 9. speaking of young men, of wild youths, saith, they are all hypocrites. Justine saith, Every evil man is an hypocrite, more or less: none is worse than such. And yet if a man should see him in a mantle, and hear him to pronounce Jehovah in3 six lines, seven times, he would think well of him, he being darkness turneth himself into an Angel of light; and as he is an hypocrite himself, so is his crew. The flesh she complains she is very weak, and cannot rise, and the spirits are dull, they cannot study. But David omitting his spiritual watch, fell seven times worse than he did before.