An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Or barren; the word signifies both; that which is desolate brings forth no fruit, and that which brings forth no fruit will quickly be desolate.

What an Hypocrite is, hath been showed before, Chapter 8. therefore I will not stay upon it, but refer you thither, where Bildad told Job, The hope of the Hypocrite shall perish: Only note two things from the whole, The Congregation of Hypocrites shall be desolate.

What an Hypocrite is, hath been shewed before, Chapter 8. therefore I will not stay upon it, but refer you thither, where Bildad told Job, The hope of the Hypocrite shall perish: Onely note two things from the whole, The Congregation of Hypocrites shall be desolate.

First, An Hypocrite is under a curse. Of all men in the World Hypocrites are deepest under a curse: They are most cursed, who are most wicked, Hypocrites are therefore more wicked then others, because they would seem not only somewhat, but much more holy then others. It is bad enough to be bad; but it is worse to appear good when we are bad. They who delight in the shows of moral goodness, when they hate, or care not for the reality of it, shall surely meet with, not ⟨p. 194⟩shows, but realities of penal evil. Their painted feigned fire of zeal shall be punished with the true fire of Divine wrath.

First, An Hypocrite is under a curse. Of all men in the World Hypocrites are deepest under a curse: They are most cursed, who are most wicked, Hypocrites are therefore more wicked then others, because they would seem not onely somewhat, but much more holy then others. It is bad enough to be bad; but it is worse to appeare good when we are bad. They who delight in the shews of morall goodnesse, when they hate, or care not for the reality of it, shall surely meet with, not