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Thirdly, As an Hypocrites heart is never throughly subdued to a willingness to part with every lust, so neither is his heart throughly subdued to a willingness to perform all known duties; sometimes he is all for public duties, but makes no conscience of closet-duties, or of family-duties; sometimes he is all for the duties of the first Table, but makes no conscience of the duties of the second Table; and sometimes he is all for the duties of the second Table, but makes no conscience of the duties of the first Table; if he obeys one command, he willingly lives in the neglect of another; if he does one duty, he will be sure to cast off another; ⟨p. 290⟩as he is not willing to fall out with every sin, so he is not willing to fall in with every duty. An Hypocrites obedience is always partial, 'tis never universal, he still baulks or boggles with those commands that cross his lusts. The Pharisees fasted,¹ prayed, gave alms, and paid tithes: O, but they omitted the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy and faith, and they were unnatural to parents, and under a pretence of praying,² they made a prey of widows houses; under a pretence of piety, they exercised the greatest covetousness, unrighteousness and cruelty, and that upon widows, who are (usually the greatest objects of pity and charity; they made no bones of robbing the widow, under a pretence of honouring of God: So Judas, under a pretence of laying up for the poor, robbed the poor; he pretended to lay up for the poor,³ but he intended only to lay up for himself, and to provide against a rainy day; it is probable that he had no great mind to stay long with his Lord, and therefore he was resolved to make the best market he could for himself. Judas being willing to set up for himself, under a cloak of holiness, he practises the greatest unfaithfulness. Though the Eagle soars high, yet still her eye is upon her prey; so though Judas did soar high in profession, yet his eye was still upon his prey, upon his bags; and so he might have it, he cared not who went without it; so he might be rich, he did not care though his Lord and his retinue grew never so poor. Judas under all his shows of sanctity, had not so much as common honesty in him; counterfeit holiness is often made a stalking horse to much unrighteousness;