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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02959	The white deuil, or The hypocrite vncased in a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, March 7. 1612. By Thomas Adams ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1613 (1613)	STC 131; ESTC S100428	46,976	70

modicum non habet modum their bunch will swell to a mountaine if it be not preuented and pared downe Care for these ye magistrates lest you answer for the subornation of their sinnes for the other let all care that care to be receiued into the armes of Iesus Christ. 3. Obserue Iudas cares not for the poore what and yet would he for their sakes haue drawn comfort from the Sonne of God what an hypocrite is this could there be so deepe dissimulation in an Apostle yes in that Apostle that was a Diuell Loe still I am haunted with this white Deuill Hypocrisie I cannot saile two leagues but I rush vpon this rocke nay it will incounter incomber me quite thorow the voyage of this verse Iudas said and meant not there is hypocrisie he spake for the poore and hates them there is hypocrisie hee was a priuy theefe a false steward c. all this not without hypocrisie shall I be rid of this Deuill at once and coniure him out of my speech God giue me assistance and adde you patience and I will spend a little time to vncase this white Deuill and strip him of all his borrowed colours Of all bodily creatures man as he is Gods image is the best but basely deiected degenerated debauched the simply worst of all earthly creatures a wicked man is the worst of all men a wicked Christian of all Christians a wicked professour of all professours a wicked hypocrite of all hypocrites a wicked warped wretched Iudas Take the extraction or quintessence of all corrupted men and you haue a Iudas this then is Iudas a man degenerate a Christian corrupted a professor putrified a guilded hypocrite a white-skind Deuill I confesse I am sparingly affected to this point and would faine shift my hands of this monster and not incounter him for it is not to fight with the Unicornes of Assyria nor the Bulles of Samaria nor the Beasts of Ephesus neither absolute Atheists nor dissolute Christians nor resolute ruffians the hornes of whose rapine and malice are no lesse manifest than malignant but at once imminent in their threats and eminent in their appearance But to set vpon a Beast that hath with the hart of a Leopard the face of a man of a good man of the best man a starre placed high in the orbe of the Church though swooped downe with the Dragons taile because not fixed a darling in the mothers lappe blessed with the Churches indulgence yet a bastard a brother of the fraternity trusted sometimes with the Churches stocke yet no brother but a broker of treacheries a brocher of falshoods I would willingly saue this labour but that the necessity of my Text ouer-rules my disposition I know these times are so shamelesse and impudent that many strip of the white and keepe the Deuill wicked they are and without shew of the contrary men are so farre from giuing house-roome to the substance of religion that they admit not an out-roome for the shew so backward to put on Christ that they will not accept of his liuerie who are short of Agrippa scarce a Act. 26. 28. perswaded to seeme Christians not at all to be these will not drinke harty draughts of the waters of life nay scarce vouchsafe like the dogges that runne by Nilus to giue a lappe at Iacobs well vnlesse it be some as they report that frequent the signe of it to bee drunke they salute not Christ at the Crosse nor bid him good morrow in the Temple but go blustring by as if some serious businesse had put haste into their feet and God was not worthy to be staid spoke withall if this be a riddle shew me the day shall not expound it by a demonstratiue experience For these I may say I would to God they would seeme holy and frequent the places where sanctimony is taught but the Deuill is a nimble running cunning fencer that strikes on both hands duplici ictu and would haue men either non sanctos aut non parùm sanctos not holy or not a little holy in their owne opinion and outward ostentation either no fire of deuotion on the harth or that that is in the top of the chimney That subtle winnower perswades men that they are all chaffe and no wheat or all wheat and no chaffe and would keepe the soule either lanke with ignorance or ranke with insolence let me therefore woo you win you to reiect both these extremes betweene which your harts lie as the graine betwixt both the milstones Shall I speake plainly You are sicke at London of one disease I speake to you setled Citizens not extrauagants and we in the Country of another a Sermon against hypocrisie in most places of the Country is like phlebotomy to a consumption the spilling of innocent blood our sicknesses are cold palseys and shaking agues yours in the City are hotter diseases the burning feuers of fierie zeale the inflammations and impostumes of hypocrisie we haue the frosts and you haue the lightnings most of vs professe too little and some of you professe too much vnlesse your courses were more answerable I would willingly be in none of your bosomes only I must speake of Iudas His hypocrisie was vile in 3. respects 1. He might haue beene sound I make no question but he heard his Master preach and preached himselfe that Gods request is the hart so Christ schooles the a Ioh. 4. Samaritane woman so prescribed the Scribe b Mark 12. 30. Thou shalt loue the Lord with all thy hart c. corde Iudas with the hart which thou reseruest like an equiuocating Iesuite nay toto corde for it is not tutum except it be totum with the whole heart which thou neuer stoodest to diuide but gauest it wholly to him that wholly killed it thy masters enemy and none of thy friend the Deuill Thou heardest thy master thy friend thy God denounce many a fearefull fatall finall woe against the Pharisies hac appellatione ob hanc caussam vnder this title and for this cause hypocrites and because hypocrites As if his woes were but words and his words winde empty and aiéry menaces without intention of hurt or extention of a reuengefull arme behold thou art an hypocrite thou art therfore the worse because thou mightest be better 2. He seemed sound spem vnltu simulat premit altum corde dolorem nay dolum rather craft rather than griefe vnlesse he grieued that out of his cunning there was so little comming small prize or booty yet like a subtle gamester he keepes his countenance though the dice doe not fauour him And as Fabius Maximus told Scipio preparing Liu. annal li. 13 for Africa concerning Syphax Fraus fidem in paruis sibi perstruit vt cum operaepretium sit cum magna mercede fallat Iudas creepes into trust by iustice in trifles that he might more securely cheat for a fit aduantage Without pretence of fidelity how got he the stewardship perhaps if