Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity,…

And if the Hypocrite should hold on his Stage affectation, with plausible art, yet it will not reach to an answerable discharge of the rest of his ministerial work: It is from men, that he expecteth his reward, and in the sight of men, on the public Stage that he appeareth in his borrowed Glory. But in his Family, or his Conversation, or his ministerial Duty to men in private, he answereth not his public show. He will not set himself to instruct, and win the ignorant and impenitent, and zealously to save men from their sins, and to raise mens earthly minds to Heaven, by praying with them, and by heavenly discourse, and by a heavenly Conversation: nor will he be at much cost, or labour to do good.

And if the Hypocrite should hold on his Stage affectation, with plausible art, yet it will not reach to an answerable discharge of the rest of his ministerial work: It is from men, that he expecteth his reward, and in the sight of men, on the publick Stage that he appeareth in his borrowed Glory. But in his Family, or his Conversation, or his ministerial Duty to men in private, he answereth not his publick shew. He will not set himself to instruct, and win the ignorant and impenitent, and zealously to save men from their sins, and to raise mens earthly minds to Heaven, by praying with them, and by heavenly discourse, and by a heavenly Conversation: nor will he be at much cost, or labour to do good.

§. 6. But alas, the far greatest part of bad unexperienced Clergy men, do prove so hurtful to the Church, that they have not so much as the Hypocrites seeming Zeal and Holiness to cloak their sin, or profit their people with. The sad case of the Christian World proclaimeth this; not ⟨p. 115⟩only in the Southern and Eastern Churches (Abyssinia, Egypt, Syria, Armenia, the Greeks, and Muscovites, &c. nor only the Papists Priests in the West, but too great a number in the Reformed Churches. And it is more lamentable than wonderful: For there goeth so much to the general planting of a worthy faithful Ministry, that it is the great Mercy of God, that such are not more rare.