A25478:1709
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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.
MOTIVE VIII.
8. If you make profession of Religion, 1and yet do not pray in your Families, it is base and cursed hypocrisy. When you hear with God's people, and pray with them, and receive with them, and seem to be devout abroad, and do not pray with your Families at home, is not this to make others believe you are what you are not? Do you not profess, by your joint duties with God's people in all Ordinances, that you are devoted unto God? and doth not he that sincerely devotes himself to God, devote also all he hath to him? but is your Family devoted to ⟨p. 350⟩God, when there is no worship there? It would be well if you were found out, that you were denied the Supper of the Lord for want of a sufficient credibility of a sound Profession. But is it your way to be zealous abroad and negligent at home? Let your house speak for you, Sed videt hunc omnis domus — Introsum turpem, speciosum pelle decorâ.
8. If you make profession of Religion, 1and yet do not pray in your Families, it is base and cursed hypocrisie. When you hear with God's people, and pray with them, and receive with them, and seem to be devout abroad, and do not pray with your Families at home, is not this to make others believe you are what you are not? Do you not profess, by your joynt duties with God's people in all Ordinances, that you are devoted unto God? and doth not he that sincerely devotes himself to God, devote also all he hath to him? but is your Family devoted to ⟨p. 350⟩