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The vain religion of the formal hypocrite, and the mischief of an unbridled tongue…
The vain religion of the formal hypocrite, and the mischief of an unbridled tongue (as against religion, rulers, or dissenters) described, in several sermons, preached at the Abby in Westminster, before many members of the Honourable House of Commons, 1660 ; and The fools prosperity, the occasion of his destruction : a sermon preached at Covent-Garden / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for F. Tyton, 1660
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3. He that is but Religious in Vain, may see the evil of discord and divisions, and inveigh much against schismatics, and see the excellency of unity and peace; and therefore may join himself with the visible Catholic Church, and with the Christians and Congregations that are most for unity. There have always been Hypocrites in the most orderly peaceable societies ⟨p. 15⟩of believers, and still will be.
3. He that is but Religious in Vain, may see the evil of discord and divisions, and inveigh much against schismaticks, and see the excellency of unity and peace; and therefore may joyn himself with the visible Catholick Church, and with the Christians and Congregations that are most for unity. There have alwayes been Hypocrites in the most orderly peaceable societies ⟨p. 15⟩of believers, and still will be.
4. The self-deceiving Hypocrite, is oft-times very sensible of the evil of vertiginous mutability in Religion; and therefore he may be much resolved to continue what he is, and may cast many a jeer at the weather-cocks of the times, and the unconstancy and levity of ignorant, or temporizing men: and may stand to his party, and profession, against much opposition, as glorying in his constancy, and being ashamed to be thought a changeling, or such a turn-coat as others whom he merrily derideth.
4. The self-deceiving Hypocrite, is oft-times very sensible of the evil of vertiginous mutability in Religion; and therefore he may be much resolved to continue what he is, and may cast many a jeer at the weather-cocks of the times, and the unconstancy and levity of ignorant, or temporizing men: and may stand to his party, and profession, against much opposition, as glorying in his constancy, and being ashamed to be thought a changling, or such a turn-coat as others whom he merrily derideth.