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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28222	The modern Pharisees, or, A sermon on the xxiij. of S. Matt., v. 15 shewing the principles of the present Jesuites and Puritans to be of the same evil influence with the ancient Pharisees and equally vexatious and destructive to government / by Nath. Bisbie ...	Bisbie, Nathaniel, 1635-1695.	1683 (1683)	Wing B2982; ESTC R11042	18,626	38

devoureth Widows houses Nay he 'l rob the Spittle and starve his very Parents to enrich the Corban and advance his Society In short what served others to make them religious would not serve the Pharisee He was all for Majorem Dei gloriam for that which would most visibly set out the honour and glory of God in the World and therefore he did enlarge his Phylacteries and make them broader and bigger than other Men He multiplied his holy waters and sprinklings counting it more necessary to sprinkle himself than if he were a-thirst to drink and live Nay if any thing would set him higher in the esteem of the vulgar than other Men he would be sure to be most punctual thereat witness his tithing of Mint and Cummin which as the learned Hammond observes was under a dispute even amongst the very Lawyers and Casuists themselves whether it ought to be paid or no. Thus great thus universal was his Hypocrisie and no wonder therefore if the Pharisee be no sooner named but Hypocrisie be clapt upon him or that the Holy Jesus should not denounce a Woe against him without calling him Hypocrite and shewing him the reason of that Woe The second thing for which they stand charged is 2. Their preposterous Zeal for they would compass Sea and Land to make one Proselyte Run into the Indies seek out the remotest corners of the World renounce their Friends and Families endure all the hardships and dangers that the merciless Seas or the more merciless Nations could expose them unto and all for the gaining perhaps but of one single Convert Nay they were so far from either balking or starting at the employ that they would beg the mission and strive who should be the first and most forward in it Now though this action was altogether praise-worthy and to be accepted of even when it reached but to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Proselyte within the Gate to the Person that had his habitation among the Jews whether he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a stranger by birth and religion only or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by birth religion and affection too yet it was never so highly esteemed of nor the Party never seemed so much to merit as when he left his native Country to do it Such an one was magni nominis ever to be honoured with a red Letter in the Calendar and to be seated in the Resurrection of the Just next to Hillel and Schamai And this certainly if well designed had been a most pious excellent and glorious Work One of the Apostles of the Holy Jesus telleth us that he who effects it shall save a Soul alive and hide a multitude of sins But then as it fell out it was not so much to gain them to God and the truth as to themselves and their Party not so much to make them Converts as Pharisees not to bring them off from a false to a true as from a false to a false from an Heathenish Idolatrous to as heathenishly superstitious and more wicked religion Which in the third place sets forth 3. Their rancour and their poison for as they proselyted so they ever made those whom they proselyted twice more Children of the Devil than before infinitely more rebellious to the Government they lived under and much more opposite to the coming and design of the blessed Jesus in purifying and reforming the depraved World As Jews they were never good the whole Religion of them was prone to be stubborn rebellious antichristian but when proselyted they ever grew worse their temper more sowre their behaviour more ungovernable their designs more wicked and bloudy And hence when they attempted a Persecution upon the Apostles it 's said Acts 13. 50. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they animated or inflamed the worshipping the proselyted Women against them as those who were ever the most zealous and forward in the cause not altogether because they were Women and of that Sex usually the most zealous but because newly proselyted and thereby made a new Sect. And in sooth so they would but keep up their zeal and therewith the Traditions they were taught the Pharisees never minded what their lives or practices were nor how much they engaged themselves for hell or hellish designs No Pereant illi in ignorantiâ superstitione impietate modo permaneant in Judaismo let them for ever perish in their ignorance superstition impiety yea Go unto the Devil whose Children they are provided whilst they are in this World they will but adhere unto their Proselytism and keep close unto the Pharisee his Faction and Traditions The sum of all that we have been labouring for in short is this 1. That the Jewish Church was at this time in a very degenerate and corrupted condition over-run with many ill Doctrines and Superstitious practices guided not by the Eternal verities of Divine revelation but by the Traditions and dotages of the self-designing Pharisee 2. That the one Order of the Hypocritical Pharisees were the only cause and the main promoters of this corruption and decay in Religion 3. That there was no way so ready or so seisable to purge out its corruptions and to bring on a Reformation and thereby to settle the Church on a lasting and peaceable foundation as to root out the Pharisees and put a stop to their proselyting Zeal And here I should end were the Jewish the only Church troubled with this sort of Men But alas we shall find the Church of Christ now in the world even in these our days every way to be as much pestered with them And in the first place 1. Let the Jesuite come unto the Scrutiny that Man of piety and design the fittest Zealot to be an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and to act a Part in this Tragedy For who seeing Ignatius and his Followers returning from the Holy Land bare-foot and bare-legg'd with their Crucifixes in their Hands their Bible and Breviaries under their Arms their Rosaries about their Necks most pitifully clad and as pitifully fed disciplining themselves as they go and mumbling over their Offices their Pater nosters and Ave Maries at every Door they come to would not believe that the Pharisees were again revived or that there was not a new spawn another Generation of those old Vipers going out into the World especially if he considers 1. The conformity of their Principles to the Pharisees 2. How adapted and fitted they be to reduce those Principles or worse if need require into action Consider we 1. Their Principles the main and chief whereof is to ruine and extirpate the Reformation with us the best for the introducing their own the worst of religions Religion it is that they aim at the religion of the place and Kingdom that troubles them A religion consonant to God's Scripture to the ancient Writings of the Fathers to all the Records and Monuments of holy Church in the best and purest Ages thereof In Doctrine orthodox in Worship