A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

5 A fifth end is this, it tends to the just punishment of Hypocrisy; it is a just judgement of God to leave such spirits to be discovered and revealed; Matth. 12 33. it is more acceptable to God, to have things seem as they are; God will have the Tree known by his fruit at length, there is no great difference between the Crab and the good Apple-Tree, by the leaf or the blossom, therefore it must be known by the fruit, Rev. 3.16. I would thou wert either hot or cold, that I might know what thou art.

5 A fifth end is this, it tends to the just punishment of Hypocrisie; it is a just judgement of God to leave such spirits to be discovered and revealed; Matth. 12 33. it is more acceptable to God, to have things seem as they are; God will have the Tree known by his fruit at length, there is no great difference between the Crab and the good Apple-Tree, by the leafe or the blossom, therefore it must be known by the fruit, Rev. 3.16. I would thou wert either hot or cold, that I might know what thou art.

Use 1. It may teach us, that even the falls of the sons and daughters of men▪ are managed and ordered by the wise and good hand of Gods providence; so you see here is a hand going quite beyond all the ends of men, they went out that they might be manifest, and God hath always challenged this, to have an hand in the sins of men, not to work, but to punish one sin by another, if God sees envy in Josephs Brethren, he stirs them up to sell him into Egypt, and God challenges it, Gen. 47. Gen. 50.20