The Godly Man's Picture

4 To be only Comets, and make a show of §4•iety is a vain thing. Hypocrites los• ▪ all •hey have done. Their dissembling tears •rop beside Gods bottle, their Prayers and •asts prove abortive. Zack. 7. 5. When ye •asted and mourned, did ye at all fast unto me, •ven to me? as God will not recompense a •othful, so neither a treacherous servant. All •he hypocrites reward is in this life, Matth. •. 5. They have their reward. A poor reward, •he empty breath of men. The hypocrite may make his Acquittance, and write, Received in full payment. Augustus Caesar had great triumphs granted him, but the Senate would not suffer him to be Consul, or sit in the Senate-house. Hypocrites may have the praise ⟨p. 12⟩of men, but though these triumphs be granted them, they shall never have the privilege to sit in the Senate-house of Heaven. What acceptance can he look for from God, whose heart tells him he is no better than a Mountebank in Divinity?

4 To be only Comets, and make a show of §4•iety is a vain thing. Hypocrites los• ▪ all •hey have done. Their dissembling tears •rop beside Gods bottle, their Prayers and •asts prove abortive. Zack. 7. 5. When yee •asted and mourned, did ye at all fast unto me, ven to me? as God will not recompence a othful, so neither a treacherous servant. All he hypocrites reward is in this life, Matth. . 5. They have their reward. A poor reward, he empty breath of men. The hypocrite may make his Acquittance, and write, Received in ful payment. Augustus Caesar had great triumphs granted him, but the Senate would not suffer him to be Consul, or sit in the Senate-house. Hypocrites may have the praise