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There is never an Hypocrite in the world, that can sincerely appeal to God, and say, Lord,¹ thou knowest that my heart is subdued to a willingness to perform all known duties; I would willingly do the best I can to observe all thy royal Laws: Lord, I unfeignedly desire, and really endeavour to have an eye upon every command of thine, and to live up to every command of thine; and it is the real grief of my heart, and the daily burden of my soul, when I violate any of thy blessed Laws. He that can in uprightness thus appeal to God, shall never miscarry in that other world. But,

1. 1Psal. 119.6. Luke 1.5, 6. Acts 13.22.

Fourthly, There is never an Hypocrite in the world that makes God, or Christ, or holiness, or his doing, or receiving good in his station, relation or generation; his grand end, his highest end, his ultimate end of living in the world; pleasures, profits and honours, are the Hypocrites all he aims at in this world; they are his Trinity which he adores and serves,¹ and sacrificeth himself unto; an Hypocrite's ends are corrupt and selfish. God may possibly be at the higher end of his work, but self is at the further end; for he that was never truly cast out of himself,² can have no higher end than himself. An Hypocrite is all for his own glory, he acts for himself, and from himself; so I may have the profit, the credit, the glory, the applause, come of God's glory what will; this is the language of an unsound heart. An Hypocrite will seem to be very godly when he can make a gain of godliness, he will seem to be very holy when holiness is the way to outward greatness and happiness; but this religious wickedness will double damn the Hypocrite at last. Self-ends are the operative ingredients in all an Hypocrite does, self is the chief Engine, self is the great wheel that sets all an hypocrites wheels a going. When hypocrites take up Religion,