A02178:1910
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 world is an hypocrite, you may see by the tares, which all good writers expound1 hypocrites, that there be bundles of hypocrites, though few bear the name; Christ saith ⟨p. 203⟩in the Gospel, Hypocrites, Isaiah prophesied well of you, you come near me with your lips, &c. Of these there be many bundles: such are all they as will not go one inch further in doing their duties, than the precepts of men. A man might marvel at Saint Paul, that he called some the circumcised of God, and the Israel of God, as though there were any other Israel or circumcision: there are indeed the circumcised of Parliaments, and the Israelites of Princes. Many there are who, if Josiah his statutes were abrogated, would be ready to take the statutes of Omry.
The world is an hypocrite, you may see by the tares, which all good writers expound1 hypocrites, that there be bundles of hypocrites, though few beare the name; Christ saith ⟨p. 203⟩in the Gospell, Hypocrites, Esay prophecied well of you, you come neere me with your lips, &c. Of these there be many bundles: such are all they as will not goe one inch further in doing their duties, thā the precepts of men. A man might marueile at Saint Paul, that he called some the circumcised of God, and the Israel of God, as though there were any other Israel or circumcision: there are indeed the circumcised of Parliaments, and the Israelites of Princes. Many there are who, if Iosias his statutes were abrogated, would bee readie to take the statutes of Omry.
- 1Many kinds of hypocrites.
There is another kind of hypocrites called Heretics, as the Novatians, Anabaptists,