Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

Many indeed have veils for their sins that they may not be discerned by men, but God looks through them: Let me instance in these following sins, that appear to men in the shape of grace, but in the sight of God are manifest sins: Or sins veiled and masked with plausible pretences of good, yet are naked to the sight of God.

Many indeed have vailes for their sins that they may not be discerned by men, but God looks through them: Let me instance in these following sins, that appear to men in the shape of grace, but in the sight of God are manifest sins: Or sins vailed and masked with plausible pretences of good, yet are naked to the sight of God.

1. ¹Pride covered with humility; A proud person often appears in the shape of an humble man. In abasing of himself, discommending himself, that another may commend him, crying down himself, that another may cry him up; by dispraising himself he would force and wrest a commendation from other men: But if he discommend himself, do you discommend him too; if he say such a thing was meanly done, if you say, you think so too, a proud man cannot bear it; he cannot hear another say of him what he saith of himself: But this secret pride God seeth.

1. 1Masked sins detected.

2. Hypocrisy masked with Zeal; Many seem to be forward in good ways, and zealous in good works; but Self is the end, 2 Kings 10.16