The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

1. An Hypocrite is he who in the stage represents a King,¹ when he is none, a beggar, an old man, a husband, when he is really no such thing, Luke 20.20. They sent out spies, feigning themselves to be just men: To the Hebrews they are [Greek or Hebrew] facials, facemen, men of the face and visor and [Greek or Hebrew] colorati, dyed men, rid men, dipped, baptized, from the root [Greek or Hebrew] to dye, dip, wash, baptize, Jer. 12.9. mine heritage is to me as an speckled bird, or a pied bird, and hath cast off my simple livery, and so is a bird of many sundry colours: The Hypocrite is dyed and watered with a hew and colour of godliness. Coneph noteth hypocrisy, Isa. 32.6. from [Greek or Hebrew] simulavit, fraudulenter egit. The noun [Greek or Hebrew] Chald. [Greek or Hebrew] a dissembler, an Hypocrite, who is sometimes just, sometimes wicked, the root by a Metaphor is to pollute, ⟨p. 134⟩and defile, Psal. 106. the land was defiled with bloods: Hence the Hypocrite is all things, and all men, and nothing, and no man but himself.

1. An Hypocrite is he who in the stage represents a King,¹ when he is none, a begger, an old man, a husband, when he is really no such thing, Luke 20.20. They sent out spies, faining themselves to be just men: To the Hebrews they are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 faciales, facemen, men of the face and vizard and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 colorati, dyed men, rid men, dipped, baptized, from the root 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to dye, dip, wash, baptize,