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Secondly, Use 2 this point ought to adaunt the Hypocrites that are amongst us, and if it were possible,¹ even cause their hearts to melt like wax within their bodies. And verily, were not Hypocrisy always accompanied and attended on, yea fortified and maintained by two naughty and desperate companions, unbelief, and hardness of heart, it could not be but that the hearing of this point, that shows how sharp God will be in taking vengeance upon the dissemblers, should cast them down into such an extremity of amazement, as scarce any comfort would lift them up again. Oh what tongue can express, what wit imagine the most extreme wretchedness of all dissemblers? They lose all their good words, and all their good prayers, and all their good hopes, and all their good deeds, (for so they account them) and all their painful services. Though they appear most excellent to men, and to themselves, and oftentimes perform things that win them in the world honour, applause and admiration; yet are all these deeds like so many worm-eaten nuts, or apples rotten at the core, even scorned and rejected of the Lord; and after all this, their final and certain doom shall be cutting off, and burning, even eternal ⟨p. 28⟩damnation. Hearken and give ear, all ye well painted Hypocrites. Let this terrible tidings be admitted into your very souls, and if it may be, by main force shake you out of your hard-heartednesse and presumption. Not alone Pagans and Turks, not alone Infidels and Jews, not alone Heretics and Schismatics, not alone the open swearer, drunkard, whoremonger, belly god and profane beast, in whose faces all civill men are ready to spit shame and contempt, but even the unfruitful branch also must be cut off. The Hypocrite must perish, the hollowhearted professor of Christian Religion, (who is also in some, and in many things a follower and practiser of that Religion) even he, I say, he that so much magnifieth himself, and is so much magnified of others, he must pass into hell. He that is very sorry for divers faults, and mendeth divers. He that comes to Church forwardly, and gladly heareth, and gladly practiseth many things he heareth. He that loveth preaching, and Preachers, and will bid both Ministers and godly men welcome to his house and table. He that can pray in his family, and likes well to read in the Bible:

SEcondly, Vse 2 this poynt ought to adaunt the Hypocrites that are amongst vs, and if it were possible,