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A02571	Pharisaisme and Christianity compared and set forth in a sermon at Pauls Crosse, May 1. 1608. By I.H. Vpon Matth. 5.20.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1608 (1608)	STC 12699; ESTC S116595	49,640	218

there bee any of you whose awaked conscience strikes him for these sins and places him below these Iews in this vnrighteousnesse if you wish or care to bee saued thinke it hie time as you would euer hope for entrance into Gods kingdome to strike your selues on the thigh and with amazement and indignation to say What haue I done to abandon your wicked courses to resolue to vow to striue vnto a Christian and conscionable reformation Paul a Pharise was according to the righteousnesse of the Law vnreprooueable yet if Paul had not gone from Gamaliels feet to Christs he had neuer been saued vnreprooueable and yet reiected Alas my brethren what shall become of our gluttony drunkennesse pride oppression bribing cosenages adulteries blasphemies and our selues for them God and men reprooue vs for these what shall become of vs If the ciuillie righteous shall not bee saued where shall the notorious sinner appeare A Christian below a Iew For shame where are we where is our emulation Heauen is our gole we all run loe the Scribes and Phariseis are before thee what safety cā it be to come short of those that come short of heauen Except your righteousnes c. You haue seene these Scribes and Phariseis their righteousnesse and our vnrighteousnesse See now with like patience their vnrighteousnesse that was and our righteousnesse that must bee wherein they failed and wee must exceed They failed then in their Traditions and Practise May I say they failed when they exceeded Their Traditions exceeded in number and prosecution faultie in matter To run well but out of the way according to the Greeke prouerbe is not better than to stand still Fire is an excellent thing but if it be in the top of the chimney it doth mischiefe rather It is good to be zealous in spight of all scoffes but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In a good thing If they had beene as hot for God as they were for themselues it had beene happie but now in vaine they worship mee saith our Sauiour teaching for doctrines the Traditions of men Hence was that axiome receiued currantly amongst their Iewish followers There is more in the words of the wise than in the wordes of the law More that is more matter more authority and from this principally arises and continues that mortall quarrell betwixt them and their Karraim and Minim vnto this day A great Iesuite at lest that thinks himselfe so writes thus in great earnest The Phariseis saith he may not vnfitly bee compared to our Catholikes Some mē speak truth ignorantly some vnwillinglie Caiphas neuer spake truer when hee meant it not one egge is not liker to another than the Tridentine fathers to these Phariseis in this point besides that of free-will merit full performance of the Law which they absolutely receiued from them For marke VVith the same reuerence deuotion do we receiue and respect Traditions that we do the bookes of the Old and New Testament say those fathers in their fourth session Heare both of these speake and see neither if thou canst discerne whether is the Pharise refuse me in a greater truth Not that we did euer say with that Arrian in Hilary VVe debar all words that are not written or would thinke fit with those phanatical Anabaptists of Munster that all bookes should be burnt besides the Bible some Traditions must haue place in euery Church but their place they may not take wall of Scripture Substance may not in our valuation giue way to circumstance God forbid If any man expect that my speech on this opportunitie should descend to the discourse of our contradicted ceremonies let him know that I had rather mourne for this breach than meddle with it God knowes how willingly I would spend my selfe into perswasions if those would auaile any thing but I well see that teares are fitter for this theme than words The name of our Mother is sacred and her peace pretious As it was a true speech cited from that father by Bellarmine The warre of Heretikes is the peace of the Church so would God our experience did not inuert it vpon vs The warre of the Church is the peace of Heretikes Our discord is their musicke our ruine their glory Oh what a fight is this Brethren striue while the enemie stands still and laughs and triumphs If wee desired the griefe of our common mother the languishing of the Gospell the extirpation of religion the losse of posterity the aduantage of our aduersaries which way could these bee better effected than by our dissensions That Spanish Prophet in our age for so I finde him stiled when King Philip asked him how he might become master of the Low-Countries answered If he could diuide them from themselues According to that old Machiauellian principle of our Iesuites Diuide and Rule And indeed it is concord only as the Posie or Mot of the vnited States runnes which hath vpheld them in a rich and flourishing estate against so great and potent enemies Our Aduersaries already bragge of their victories and what good heart can but bleed to see what they haue gained since wee dissented to foresee what they will gaine They are our mutuall spoiles that haue made them proud and rich If you euer therfore look to see the good daies of the Gospell the vnhorsing and confusion of that strumpet of Rome for Gods sake for the Churches sake for our owne soules sake let vs all compose our selues to peace and loue Oh pray for the peace of Ierusalem that peace may be within her walles and prosperitie within her palaces For the matter of their Traditions our Sauiour hath taxed them in many particulars about washings oaths offerings retribution whereof he hath said enough whē he hath termed their doctrine the Leauen of the Phariseis that is sowre and swelling S. Hierome reduces them to two heads They were Turpia anilia some so shamefull that they might not be spoken others idle dotish both so numerous that they cannot be reckned Take a taste for all and to omit their reall traditions heare some of their interpretatiue The Law was that no Leper might come into the Temple their Tradition was that if he were let downe thorow the roofe this were no irregularity The Law was a man might not carry a burden on the Sabbath their Traditional glosse if he carried ought on one shoulder it was a burden if on both none If shooes alone no burden if with nails not tolerable Their stint of a Sabbaths iourney was a thousand cubites their glosse was That this is to bee vnderstood without the wals but if a man should walke all day thorow a city as bigge as Nineuie he offends not The Church of Rome shall vie strange glossems and ceremonious obseruations with them whether for number or for ridiculousnesse The day would faile mee if I should either epitomize the volume of their holy rites

you read it without an aspiration it signifies for follie rather what could that apish and stigmaticall Friar haue done either more or worse ● This was their deuotion The holinesse of their carriage was such that they auoided euery thing that might carrie any doubt of pollution they would not therefore conuerse with any different religion and this law went currant amongst them He that eats a Samaritans bread be as hee that eats swines-flesh An Hebrew midwife might not help a Gentile not books not wax not incense might bee sold to them Yea no familiaritie might bee suffered with their owne vulgar For whereas there were three rankes among the Iewes the wise those were the Phariseis their Disciples and the populus terrae as they called them this was one of the six reproches to a nouice of the Phariseis To eat with the vulgar sort and lest when they had beene abroad they should haue been toucht by any contrarie to the warning of their phylacteries they scoure themselues at their return and eat not vnlesse they haue washt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is accurately as the Syriac oft as Erasmus or with the grip't fist as Beza following Hierome And not with euery water marke the nicenesse but with that onely which they had drawen vp with their owne labour and to make vp the measure of their pretended sanctimonie they vowed continencie not perpetuall as our Romanists vrge but for eight or ten yeers Thus they did vnbidden how strictly did they perform what was enioined no men so exact in their tithes I pay tithes of all saith the boasting Pharise Of all as a great Doctour noteth it was more than hee needed God would haue a Sabbath kept they ouer-keep it They would not on that day stop a running vessell not lay an apple to the fire not quench a burning not knocke on a Table to still a child what should I note more not rub or scratch in publike God commands them to weare Totaphoth phylacteries they doe which our Sauiour reprooues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 enlarge them and these must bee written with right lines in a whole parchment of the hide of a cleane beast God commands to celebrate and rost the Passeouer they will haue it done in an excesse of care not with an iron but a woodden spit and curiouslie choose the woode of Pomegranate God commanded to auoid Idolatrie they taught their Disciples if an image were in the way to fetch about some other if they must needs go that way to runne and if a thorne should light in their foot neer the place not to kneele but sit downe to pull it out lest they should seeme to giue it reuerence I weary you with these Iewish niceties Consider then how deuout how liberal how continent how true-dealing how zealous how scrupulous how austere these men were and see if it be not a woonder that our Sauior thus brandeth them Except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnes of the Scribes and Phariseis ye shall not enter into the kingdome of Heauen That is If your doctrine bee not more righteous you shall not be entred of the Church if your holinesse be not more perfect you shal not enter into heauen behold Gods kingdome below and aboue is shut vpon them The poore Iews were so besotted with the admiration of these two that they would haue thought if but two men must goe to heauen the one should be a Scribe the other a Pharise What strange news was this from hm that kept the keies of Dauid that neither of them should come there It was not the person of these men not their learning not wit not eloquence not honour they admired so much but their righteousnesse and lo nothing but their righteousnesse is censured Heerein they seemed to exceed all men heerein al that would be saued must exceed them Doe but thinke how the amazed multitude stared vpon our Sauiour when they heard this Paradox Exceed the Phariseis in righteousnesse It were much for an Angell from Heauen What shal the poor sons of the earth doe if these woorthies be turned away with a repulse yea perhaps your selues al that heare me this day receiue this not without astonishment and feare whiles your consciences secretly comparing your holines with theirs find it to come as much short of theirs as theirs of perfection And would to God you could feare more bee more amazed with this comparison for to set you forward must we exceed them or else not bee saued if wee let them exceed vs what hope what possibility is there of our Saluation Ere wee therefore shew how farre wee must goe before them looke backe with me I beseech you a little and see how farre wee are behind them They taught diligently and kept Moses his chaire warme How many are there of vs whom the great master of the Vineyard may finde loytering in this publike market-place and shake vs by the shoulder with a Quid statis otiosi VVhy stand you heere idle They compast sea and land Satans walke to make a proselyte vve sit still and freeze in our zeale and lose proselytes vvith our dul and vvilfull neglect They spent one quarter of the day in praier How many are there of vs that would not think this an vnreasonable seruice of God we are so farre from this extreme deuotion of the old Euchitae that we are rather worthy of a censure with those Spanish Priests for our negligence how many of you citizens can get leaue of Mammon to bestow one houre of the day in a set course vpon God How many of you Lawyers are first clients to God ere you admit others clients to you how many of you haue your thoughts fixed in Heauen ere they bee in Westminster Alas what dulnesse is this what iniustice all thy houres are his and thou wilt not lend him one of his owne for thine owne good They read they recited the Law some twice a day neuer went without some parts of it about them But to what effect There is not one of our people saith Iosephus but answers to any question of the Law as readily as his own name how shall their diligence vpbraid yea condemne vs 〈◊〉 Alas how doe our Bibles gather dust for want of vse while our Chronicle or our Statute-booke yea perhaps our idle and s●●rrilous play-bookes are worne with turning Oh how happy were our fore-fathers whose memory is blessed for euer if they could with much cost and more danger get but one of Pauls Epistles in their bosomes how did they hugge it in their armes hide it in their chest yea in their heart How did they eat walke sleepe with that sweet companion in spight of all persecutiō neuer thought themselues wel but when they conuersed with it in secret Lo now these shops are all open we buie them not these books are open wee read them not and wee will bee