Qu. 15. Ask them why Christ gave the world so many warnings of the damnableness of the Pharisees hypocrisy, if Hypocritical Christians may be saved. And what were these Pharisees? They were the Masters of the Jewish Church: The Rabbis that must have high places, high titles, and ceremonies, formal garments, and must be reverenced of all: That gave God lip-service without the heart, and made void his commands, and worshipped him in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men, and strictly tithed Mint and Cummin, while love, mercy and Justice were past by: Who worshipped God with abundance of ceremonies, and built the Tombs, and garnished the Sepulchres of the Saints; while they killed and persecuted those that did imitate them, and hated the living Saints, and honoured the dead. They were the bitterest enemies and murderers of Christ, on pretence that he was a blasphemer, and a seditious enemy to Caesar and the common peace, and one that spake against the Temple: They were the greatest enemies of the Apostles, and silencers of ⟨image 15⟩those that preached Christs Gospel, and persecuted them that called on his name. And had these no need of Conversion, because they could say, God is our Father (when the Devil was their Father, John 8. 44.) and that they were Abraham's seed? And are not hypocritical Christians, drunken Christians, fornicating Christians, carnal, worldly, infidel Christians, (the contradiction is your own) persecuting Christians, false-named hypocritical Christians, as bad, yea worse, as they abuse a more excellent profession? Mat. 15. 7, 8. and 23. and 22. 18. and 6. 2, &c. Luke 12. 1.
Qu. 15. Ask them why Christ gave the world so many warnings of the damnableness of the Pharisees hypocrisie, if Hypocritical Christians may be saved. And what were these Pharisees? They were the Masters of the Jewish Church: The Rabbies that must have high places, high titles, and ceremonies, formal garments, and must be reverenced of all: That gave God lip-service without the heart, and made void his commands, and worshipped him in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men, and strictly tythed Mint and Cummin, while love, mercy and Justice were past by: Who worshipped God with abundance of ceremonies, and built the Tombs, and garnished the Sepulchres of the Saints; while they killed and persecuted those that did imitate them, and hated the living Saints, and honoured the dead. They were the bitterest enemies and murderers of Christ, on pretense that he was a blasphemer, and a seditious enemy to Caesar and the common peace, and one that spake against the Temple: They were the greatest enemies of the Apostles, and silencers of ⟨image 15⟩those that preached Christs Gospel, and persecuted them that called on his name. And had these no need of Conversion, because they could say, God is our Father (when the Devil was their Father, Iohn 8. 44.) and that they were Abraham's seed? And are not hypocritical Christians, drunken Christians, fornicating Christians, carnal, worldly, infidel Christians, (the contradiction is your own) persecuting Christians, false-named hypocritical Christians, as bad, yea worse, as they abuse a more excellent profession? Mat. 15. 7, 8. and 23. and 22. 18. and 6. 2, &c. Luke 12. 1.
