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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09035	The end of the perfect man A sermon preached at the buriall of the right Honourable Sir Robert Spencer Knight Baron Spencer of Wormeleighton, Novemb. 6. 1627. in Braynton Church in Northamptonshire, by Richard Parre Bachelour in Divinity, and late fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford, now rector of Ladbrook in Warwickshire.	Parr, Richard, 1591 or 2-1644.	1628 (1628)	STC 19323; ESTC S114075	28,531	44

heart and inward affections is exdiametro oppos'd to hypocrisie dissimulation or double dealing with God God loues trueth in the inward affections and if God loue it wee must loue it and why because in a conformity with God stands mans felicitie In this integrity of heart and trueth in the inward affections are two things holinesse and sincerity opposite to sinne and hypocrine wee must write holinesse vnto the Lord or else wee shall neuer see God we must season all our actions with the grace of Sincerity else wee shall neuer please him but the speculation of these two graces holinesse and sincerity will be more cleare in the view of their opposites finne and hypocrisie Peccatum sinne in the Schoole of God is taught to be an exorbitancie a swaruing from the rule of trueth What sinne is a transgression of the law and sinne in the Schooles of men is taught to be mendacium a lye and to lye is to goe against the minde or for the tongue te giue to the heart the lye in shedding of blood the hand onely lyes or is false to the heart and in a common lye the tongue onely lyes against the heart but in hypocrisie is a generall lye of the whole man not the tongue onely lyes to the heart but the eye the hand the knee and the foote also the hand is lifted vppe to heauen the eyes looke vp to God the feete goe the knees bend and bowe in the Temple of GOD but where 's the heart doth that goe along with them no! The heart of the couetous man is where his treasure is the heart of the ambitious man is where his honour is and the heart of a voluptuous man is where his pleasure is Haec tria pro trino numine mundus habet this is the trynitie which these worldlings worship for although their feete goe and their knees bowe in the Temple of God though their eyes and handes be lifted vp to heauen yet their hearts are groueling heer on earth it is the pollicy of sin to imitate sincerity and the guise of hypocrisie to follow the fashions of integrity the heires of darkenesse transforme themselues into Angels of Light and Bastard Christians can counterfeit perfect mens behauiours yet those heires of darkenesse are not children of the light nor these counterfeit true Christians and why because they come short in this grace of sincetity or integrity of heart The painter can paint the colour of the fire the forme of the flame thereof but cannot paint the heate of it right so the counterfeit cā resēble the perfect Christian in outward colours formes fashions but not in his integrity of heart or truth in the inward affections Esau can weepe bitterly like Hezechia Achab can put on sack-cloth like Mordecay and Saul can confesse in word I haue sinned as well as Dauid yet neither Esau nor Achab nor Saul was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a perfect man and why because none of their hearts were perfect in the sight of the Lord such hypocrites are the greatest enemies to the Church and truth yet they will seeke protection both from truth and Church Soe Celsus and Antiphon writing against the truth entitle their treatise the booke of truth Soe Romes Proselites vnder the name of the Church a Origen contra Celsum ouerthrow the Church Leo tels them truly Bcclesiae nomine armamini b Leo ep 83. contra eam dimicatis Such men make conscience iustice the greatest martyrs in the world the greate man in doing mischiefe pretendes justice the meane man alwaies cōscience God a good cōscience are pretended on alsides thus making good Luthers Prouerbe c Luther in 3. ad Coll. In nomine Domini incipit omne malum In the name of God they Christen all their actions But God is the God of truth and loues trueth in the inward affections therefore such hypocrisie must needes bee an abomination vnto him it offends him it grieues his spirit and at last it shall grieue the soules of them who are the authors of it for it shall spoyle them of inward joy and peace of conscience here and of eternall joy and peace in the kingdome of heauen hereafter It is storied of Constantinus surnamed Copronymus that he was neque Christianus neque Iudaeus nec Paganus sed Colluuies quaedam impietatis that hee was neither Christian Iewe nor Pagan but a certaine masse or heape of impieties and so indeed are all hypocrites with the Iewes they salute Christ as their king yet buffet him they protect him with the Christian yet persecute him with the Pagan they are named Israelites but liue like Aethiopians they speake with the voyce of Iacob but worke with the hands of Esau and walke with the feete of Ioab that any man may perceiue not by their coate but their party-coloured conditions that they are bastards and no Christians But leaue we these Hypocrites to their bastard broode to their vtter condemnation to their vae vae vae woe woe woe in the Gospell come to our selues whilest condemnation falls on their pates would we haue the saluation of God shewed on vs then must we with our perfect man in the text order our conuersation aright and endeauour to serue God in the grace of integrity with cleane hands pure hearts for who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord a Psalm 24.4.5 euen he that hath cleane hands and a pure heart hee shall receiue the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his saluation And is there any way or meanes to know whether wee our selues or others are such men of cleane hands and pure hearts yes Ex fructibus cognoscetis by their fruites yee shall know them for good and godly men are like trees planted by the riuer side which bring forth their fruites in due season I demand then what are these seasonable fruits Psalm 1.3 doubtles they are good works those good worksare of 3. sorts of Piety towards God of equity towards our neighbour of sobriety towards our selues as the works so the fruites are of 3. sorts by the 1. God is glorified by the 2. our neighbour is edified by the 3. our cōsciences are cōforted cōfirm'd in the assurance of saluatiō For howsoeuer good work sare no meriting causes yet they are witnessing effects or assurances of saluatiō Make your calling election sure 't is S. Peters exhortation 2. Pet. 1.10 but how 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by good workes Beza confesseth he saw two greeke Manuscripts with those expresse words of the text good works haue no place in the act of iustificatiō for by good works causatiue shall not man liuing be iustified without good workes consequutiue shall no man liuing bee saued Oh that all disputing about good workes were turned into doing and that euery Christian would take it into his higher consideration that although he is not now justified by good