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The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.HThe soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H
The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.H.The soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H.
London: printed by R. Young and John Dawson, 1640
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
13. The third rank of those that love not Christ, are the fawning hypocrites, that will fawn upon the Lord Jesus, that make admirable fair weather, and profess marvellous affectionate love unto him; and will speak for a good cause and hazard himself in it, and when all is done, he is an inward hater of Christ. Of this sort I take Saul to be, 1 Sam. 15.13. the Lord gave a commandment to go and kill all the Amalekites; who, when he saw Samuel coming toward him, saith, Blessed be thou of the Lord (here mark the trick of an hypocrite) I have performed the commandment of the Lord, and therefore blessed be God that I see thee, that I may give up my account unto thee: But, saith he, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? I need not speak, for the bleatings of the sheep show that Saul is an hypocrite. These men may be discovered by these two passages: They do not desire to give contentment to Jesus Christ, but to themselves; and withal, they lift up their own glory with Christ.2 Of this rank there are four sorts; The wrangling hypocrite, The whining hypocrite, ⟨p. 247⟩The vain-glorious hypocrite, The presumptuous hypocrite.
13. The third ranke of those that love not Christ, are the fawning hypocrites, that will fawne upon the Lord Jesus, that make admirable faire weather, and professe marvellous affectionate love unto him; and will speake for a good cause and hazzard himselfe in it, and when all is done, he is an inward hater of Christ. Of this sort I take Saul to bee, 1 Sam. 15.13. the Lord gave a commandement to goe and kil all the Amalekites; who, when he saw Samuel comming toward him, saith, Blessed bee thou of the Lord (here marke the tricke of an hypocrite) I have performed the commandement of the Lord, and therefore blessed be God that I see thee, that I may give up my account unto thee: But, saith he, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheepe in mine eares, and the lowing of the oxen which I heare? I need not speake, for the bleatings of the sheepe shew that Saul is an hypocrite. These men may be discovered by these two passages: They doe not desire to give contentment to Jesus Christ, but to themselves; and withall, they lift up their own glory with Christ.