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A62952	Pharisaism display'd, or Hypocrisie detected In a sermon preached in St. Mary's Church in Stamford, August the 21st, 1690. Being the triennial visitation of the right Reverend father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln. By George Topham, prebendary of Lincoln.	Topham, George, d. 1694.	1690 (1690)	Wing T1907; ESTC R220704	11,882	34

prescribed and used in the Church Again as the Pharisees of old were constantly backbiting and speaking Evil of the High-Priest so our Modern Phnrisees make it a piece of their Religion to bespatter and slander despise and contemn the Persons and Commands of our Reverend Bishops whom they ought to serve and obey in the Lord Episcopacy being an Apostolical Institution as appears from the Bishops which they Ordained in several Churches And St. Jerom assures us that 't was the Judgment of the whole Christian World in his time that for avoiding of Schism and Heresies it was necessary there should be one Bishop in every Diocess But to come nearer home the Learned Doctor Du Moulin wrote a Book to Vindicate the French Reformed Churches from being a Pattern to any Scottish or English Presbyterians to reject their Bishops where he gives us also the severe Censures of Zanchy and Calvin against those who deny Obedience to their Lawful Bishops a Tester me Deo says Zanchy I protest before GOD and in my Conscience that I hold them no better than Schismaticks who account it a part of Reformation to have no Bishops in the Church And says Calvin They are worthy of any Execration who will not submit themselves to that Hierarehy which submitteth itself unto the LORD And Calvin for his own part though he had not the Title had as much Authority as ever Bishop of Geneva had and Presbytery itself is little else than a Multiplied Episcopacy setting up a Diocesan in every Parish only with the Addition of an Unparallelld Pride and Insolency into the Bargain Beza the great Patron of Presbyterian Eldership yet onfesses it to be necessary Vt Presbyterio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 essit permaneret That one be Prelate over the Presbytery and this not pre tempore but to continue and allows St. Jerom's Reason why it should be so In Remedium Schismatis For the avoiding of Schism And I hope this Age will not yet forget that when the Reverend Bishops were laid aside when the influences of those Lights were restrained what a Night of Darkness overspread the Face of the English Church not unlike unto that which now threatens our Northern Brethren for the same Arguments which the Presbyterians had fiercely used against the Bishops were by the Independants unanswerably manag'd against themselves and then there succeeded more Sub-divisions the Anabaptist got up and bore Sway the Fifth Monarchy Men made bussle for the Rule and at last up starts the Quaker and he 'll hold forth to them all Thus though they could all but too well agree to Ruine the poor Church of England yet no sooner had they done that which was and still is their Design but you see how they fell out among themselves about their particular Ends and when they had pull'd down that which they maliciously call'd Babylon the English Jerusalem their Language was so divided that they could none of them build a Babel of their own Thus Religion whose main business and design is to perswade Men to Unity was generally made the occasion of Quarrel for no sooner had they gone off from the peaceable and pious Ways of the Church but into how many By-paths of Error did they run and fled as fast from one another as they did at first from us And God knows this Leaven of Separation begins now to spread again as much as ever and there are not wanting those who as boldly as impiously give out that the Unity of the Spirit cannot be better kept than by Dis-uniting that is though they differ amongst themselves by uniting against the Established Religion and make that blessed Spirit whose Fruit is Peace and Love and Gentleness the Author and Fomenter of Discord and Strife as if the fiery Tongues he appeared in had been design'd for Incendiaries and the Zeal signified by those sacred Flames could not be better exprest than in unkind Heats and uncharitable Animosities and the rushing of the Wind which filled the Room where the Disciples were met portended onely Storms and Tempests to the Christian Church and those to be bred within her own Bowels But to proceed another piece of the Hypocrisie of the Pharisees was in that their making long Prayers and pretending to greater Mortification Self-denial and Contempt of the World was only that they might the more easily and readily Defraud the Widdows and Orphans and at the same time that they pretended to scorn all Secular Interests they were the most covetous Persons living And our home-bred Pharisees do not only imitate but have out-done the Copy for though they cry themselves up to be the great Lovers of the Life Eternal yet if you mark them in their several Employs and observe how they 'll Equivocate and Lye to gain their Ends and advance their Interests you 'll see that they prefer the Temporal and that Gain is their Godliness and that though they give out they are all upon the spur to the New Jerusalem are yet for all their hast if they had the power in their hands as ready to make a Halt again in Church Lands as ever Again as the Pharisees of old boasted a greater Tenderness of Conscience than other Men when all the while 't was but Hypocrisie for though they strein'd at a Gnat they had a Conscience so wide as to swallow a Camel So our Modern Zealots though they are so tender as to scruple at a Ceremony yet they have a Conscience so tough as to bear a Schisin They are no Sabbath-Breakers or Swearers for those are Sins of no Profit nor are they ordinarily drunk with Wine without it be at another Man's charge for that 's both a disgraceful and a costly Sin but they are serious demure in all their Projects and seek the Ruine of a Church in as great Sobriety as Julius Caesar did that of a Commonwealth Another part of the Religion of the Pharisees lay in deriding the Persons and cenfuring the Faults of other Men And does it not pass with several of our Separatists for a very confiderable piece of Religion to speak contemptuously of others to scorn a Priest deride a Bishop and mock a whole Profession This is the Piety of too many of them this is their Religion and this is the thing for which they so highly prize themselves and if they should be denied this if they should be stript as 't is fit they should of their Zeal in scorning those they ought to value if all that Heat which appears in them against the Persons of other Men were quencht all that sour Leaven of theirs cast out they would have very little to say for their being of any Religion For if their Faith be observ'd by their Works such as Patience Humility and Righteousness those Graces wherein the Kingdom of GOD consists you 'll find them without breach of Charity far from being what they imagine themselves to be namely truly Pious Nay 't is now become such is the Age we