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The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the…
The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1657
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*The hypocrite seems upright, till times of trial come. The crystal looks like pearl till it comes to the hammering. The hypocrite is good only in Sun-shine; he cannot sail in a storm, but retreats to the shore. Naturalists report of the Chelydonian stone that it will retain its virtue no longer then it is enclosed in gold. An emblem of ⟨p. 41⟩hypocrites who are good only while they are enclosed in golden prosperity, take them out of the gold, and they lose that virtue they did seem to have; descinit in piscem mulier formosa superne.—Unsound professors, like green timber, shrink in the hot Sun of persecution. The heat of the fiery trial cools their zeal.
*The hypocrite seemes upright, till times of trial come. The chrystal looks like pearl till it comes to the hammering. The hypocrite is good only in Sun-shine; he cannot sail in a storme, but retreats to the shore. Naturalists report of the Chelydonian stone that it will retaine its vertue no longer then it is enclosed in gold. An embleme of ⟨p. 41⟩hypocrites who are good only while they are inclosed in golden prosperity, take them out of the gold, and they lose that vertue they did seem to have; descinit in piscem mulier formosa superne.—Unsound professours, like green timber, shrink in the hot Sunne of persecution. The heat of the fiery trial cooles their zeale.
- *In Christian is non initia sed fines lau dantur.