A discourse about the state of true happiness delivered in certain sermons in Oxford,…A discourse about the state of true happinesse deliuered in certaine sermons in Oxford,…

Fourthly, he is justly obnoxious to an extraordinary measure §4of Gods hatred and indignation. For every ingenuous man out of the grounds of morality, holdeth in greatest detestation a doubling and dissembling companion; as a fellow of extreme baseness and servility, most unworthy to be entertained either into his inward affections and approbation ⟨p. 32⟩or outward services and employments; how much more the God of heaven and earth, who seeth clearly into the inmost closet of the heart? For hell and destruction are before the Lord, how much more the hearts of the sons of men? I say, how much more must he needs double his infinite hatred of sin against the double iniquity of hypocrisy? how must his soul abhor that wretched creature, which bears the world in hand, and makes a show unto men, that he stands for God and his honour and service; but indeed is a close factor for Satan, his own pleasures and the powers of darkness? And as the hypocrite is subject to Gods extraordinary hatred; so is he liable to an extraordinary weight of vengeance: For when the wrath of the Lord is once enkindled against him, it is poured out like fire, and burns even to the bottom of hell. His fear cometh like an horrible desolation, and his destruction like a whirlwind. Terrors shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall carry him away by night: And so certain are these plagues, that as though the hypocrite were already turned into a devil, or into the very fiery lake, it is said in the Gospel, of other sinners, that they shall have their portion with the hypocrite, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Fourthly, he is iustly obnoxious to an extraordinarie measure §4of Gods hatred and indignation. For euery ingenuous man out of the grounds of morality, holdeth in greatest detestation a doubling and dissembling companion; as a fellow of extreme basenesse and seruility, most vnworthie to be entertained either into his inward affections and approbation ⟨p. 32⟩or outward seruices and imployments; how much more the God of heauen and earth, who seeth cleerely into the inmost closet of the heart? For hell and destruction are before the Lord, how much more the hearts of the sons of men? I say, how much more must he needs double his infinite hatred of sin against the double iniquity of hypocrisie? how must his soule abhorre that wretched creature, which beares the world in hand, and makes a shew vnto men, that he stands for God and his honour and seruice; but indeed is a close factor for Satan, his owne pleasures and the powers of darkenes? And as the hypocrite is subiect to Gods extraordinarie hatred; so is hee liable to an extraordinarie weight of vengeance: For when the wrath of the Lord is once enkindled against him, it is powred out like fire, and burnes euen to the bottome of hell. His feare commeth like an horrible desolation, and his destruction like a whirlewind. Terrors shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall carrie him away by night: And so certaine are these plagues, that as though the hypocrite were already turned into a diuell, or into the very fierie lake, it is said in the Gospell, of other sinners, that they shall haue their portion with the hypocrite, where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.