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A94758	The hypocrite discovered and cured. The definition the kindes the subject the symptoms of hypocrisie. The prognosticks the causes the cure of hypocrisie. A discourse furnished vvith much variety of experimentall and historicall observations, and most seasonable for these times of happy designe for reformation. In two bookes. / By Samuell Torshell. With an epistle to the Assembly of Divines, about the discerning of spirits. Ordered, Novemb. 24, 1643. that this booke be printed, for Iohn Bellamie. Iohn White. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamie.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1938; Thomason E80_11	165,295	186

his trade Adam in vitae Musc p. 373. This man he found to be an Anabaprist a notable hypocrite one that pretended much piety but was no way answerable but only a great talker Musculus could not hold but must needs reprove him and among other things finding that he was idle and neglected his calling he urged him with that of Paul He that will not worke let him not eate But the Anabaptist was too proud to receive a reproofe and poore Musculus was thrust out of his doors And as in the matter of private reproofes so the hypocrite cannot endure the severity of Church censures Hist Mad. Cent. 2. Aquila the Antient Greek Translator of the Bible fell from Christianity to Judaisme being angry at a sentence of excommunication against him 'T is a notable passage which was made known to the Commissioners in Qu. Elizabeths time of one W Dangerous positions c. Book 3. ch 18. a Minister that was then very active in a private way for the setting up of discipline yet when himself had given a great scandall and was proceeded against according to the wholesome severity of their own Orders he brake out and railed against Mr Feild and some other Ministers and would not be held to those rules that himself had had an hand in composing Upon such an occasion as this it was that Santangelus the Lawyer of Burdeaux fell out so foulely with the famous Camero and the rest of the Ministers of the Protestant Church Cameron Stellitentic in Ep. because he was convented before their Synod for some delinquencie I have now done with the Symptomes haply more pulses might be felt and more urines viewed but these shall serve which may be of use to occasion in others a more full discovery and knowledge of this great disease and dangerous which opens the way to the second Booke in which I am first to consider the Prognosticks The second BOOKE CHAP. I. Prognosticks of hypocrisie The first It threatens the decay of gifts The second It prepares the way to Heresie I Have dwelt long upon the examination of the Hypocrite and have admitted what evidences I could meet with against him but his case is so intricate that haply it may be necessary that a Melius inquirendo goe out against him I have thus long been enquiring after him and have told his marks it may be he hath some other but those will serve turne to make him known to such as meet him I will now lay open the bill against him and shew his vilenesse basenesse harmfullnesse and the danger to which he is exposed which is the next businesse according to the method I propounded to speake of the Prognosticks of hypocrisie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fernel de Symptom l. 2. c 7. Hypocrisie prognosticates the decay of gifts which are signes also but as the Symptomes are signes demonstrative that tell what is these are signes that foretell what will befall 1. Hypocrisie is a prognostick of the decay of gifts It eates out a mans gifts at least the spirit and livelinesse of them Nothing hinders spirituall growth and flourishing more then that doth Sincerity is a fat and yeilding soyle wherein all graces take root and grow prosperously God is strong with the upright Nicodemus though he were timerous was sincere and came on miraculously He was a weake and tender sprig when he was first planted he grew in the shade he came to Jesus by night But he grew up and feared no scorchings no frosts no winds This timerous disciple becomes a confident professor When Christ was despised of all and hung upon the Crosse among thieves he comes boldly and beggs the body of Jesus But the hypocrite growes weaker and weaker and loses all Boner was once a good Preacher Mr. Fox Acts and Mon. but at last himself confessed he had lost his gift of preaching Trembling Sanders sincere Sanders proves a brave glorious Martyr but bold Pendleton that presumptuous and bragging hypocrite becomes a base Apostata and to save his fat carcasse from frying at a stake which hee formerly vaunted of hee carried a leane and starved soul to Hell unlesse God gave him repentance afterwards which is more then we find of him So truly is that of the Psalmist verified A little that a rightcous man hath Psal 37.16 is better then the riches of many wicked That little encreaseth to a rich stock for sincerity is a great improver but that riches is blown away and comes to extreame poverty The hypocrite is fit for no duty He is a cup with an hole in the bottome he can hold nothing he is fit for no use but to be lay'd by or thrown in a corner An hypocrite cannot pray He can speake confession and petition and with good words too it may be for words are the worke of invention which he may still hold God lets out these common grounds to wicked men and they may till them but he wants an heart and 't is the heart that prayes And prayer is the holding of acquaintance with God to whom the hypocrite is a stranger and the driving of a trade with God who will not deale with hypocrites or trust out any of his speciall graces to them 2. Hypocrisie is a prognostick of erroneous opinions Hypocrisie a prognostick of Heresie yea boyled up to the consistencie of Haeresies They love not the truth and therefore cannot keep it it dwells and remaines with those that affect it heartily 1 Tim. 1.19 I charge thee saith St Paul to Timothy warre a good warfare holding faith and a good conscience they must be kept in company he that holds not a good conscience cannot hold faith Part with your uprightnesse and the truth will be gone too As it follows in that place Which good conscience some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack He instanceth in Hymeneus and Alexander Hymeneus is mentioned againe by St Paul in his other Epistle to Timothy 2 Tim. 2.14 16 17. It seems he was a Preacher full of ostentation that regarded more the praise of his wit and subtilty then the edification of the hearers He was a striver about words to no profit a profane and vaine babler a man whose words did eate like a Canker or a Gangrene as we may gather his character out of that text With him he joyns Philetus No wonder that such men should loose the faith as they did in a main point they denied the resurrection Chrysost in loc They cast away the feare of judgement and the expectation of immortall life Of Alexander if he were the Jew that we reade of in the Acts of the Apostles Acts 16.33 as Baronius is of opinion Baron Annal. Tom. 1. ad an 57. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. Eus Hist l 5. c. 17. l 6. c. 31. Et alibi Epiphan haer 24. Funccij Chron. ad an 141. Isa 19.13 14. Vide Abrah Scult●ti Ideum

in Iesu ad loc we find that he was once a forward man in the Apostles cause and ventured himself for the appeasing of the uproare against Paul and allaying their fury not that himself was any way accused as Theophylact observes But it seems he was not sound but right of Hymeneus his temper a good speaker 't is likely because the rest thrust him forward to try his Oratory with the rabble but one whose ambitious eloquence or I know not what else carried him into heresie If the reader consult Eusebius and Epiphanius and others he shall find this observation plentifully confirmed That most haeresies have had their birth from foule lust avarice ambition or some other unsound humour that have mastered such as have been otherwise the owners of good parts as Valentinus was who fell into his heresie because he mist a Bishoprick saith Funccius whom God hath justly given over to blindnesse as the Lord threatned it against hypocrites in the Prophet Isaiah Forasmuch as this people draw neare me with their mouth and with their lips doe honour me but have removed their heart farre from me Therefore I will adde to doe a marvellous work among this people The wisedome of their wise men shall perish Which agrees with that of the Apostle 2 Thes 2.10 11. Because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lye He that hath already denied the power of Religion will it be any wonder if he after deny the forme of it He that will not leave his sin for his Religion sake will easily be perswaded to leave his Religion for his fins sake When once the conscience can swallow down wicked practises it will digest wicked opinions when once the Ship leakes the lading is in danger both to sink or swimme together neither is it possible that a pure faith can be preserved in an impure conscience as Mr Pemble speakes in one of his wholsome Sermons The root of Apostasie p. penult Zanchy being to treat of the Doctrine of the Trinity which was so much nibled at by so many of the old hereticks begins with reckoning up the causes of heresies and among others he placeth Hypocrisie Zanch. de Tribus Elohim Tom. 1. mibi p. 380. and sayes he could produce many examples of his own time but spared them because they were living hoping that God might give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth And who is he that takes any notice of the progresse of truth but hath observed some examples of the fearfull Apostacie and the doting errours into which some unsound men have fallen I will only produce one Bernardinus Ochinus made a faire shew in the Church and was well thought of among good Divines and was deare to Bullinger but he was unsound as appeared Vita Bulling p. 498. He first fell into the defense of polygamie in some dialogues which he publisht in Italian The Senate of Tigure hereupon banisht him and Bullinger denied him his commendatory Letters He went to Basil and after that into Poland where he broached other heresies about the holy Ghost After this he went into Moravia and joyned himself unto the Anabaptists there among whom he dyed inglorious CHAP. II. Other prognosticks of hypocrisic The third Atheisme The fourth Hypocrisie works much mischiefe to the Church 3. Hypocrisie is a prognostick of Atheisme An Hypocrite in the way to Atheisme They have both the same Originall There is but a graduall difference between them He that mocks God as the hypocrite doth knows not nor acknowledges God and is an Atheist in another dresse He cares not for holinesse and therefore when he hath his ends he cares not for the shew of holinesse Hence hypocrites breake forth ordinarily at length into loosenesse and profanenesse And no wonder seeing as the Apostle intimates hypocrisie is attended with a feared conscience 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 4.2 consciences hard and brawny dull and without feeling for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to seare with an hot iron But it signifies also to cut off with searing as Chirurgions doe rotten members and then the Apostle speakes of men that have no conscience left men of no conscience at all Dan. Heins exerc ad loc or men of stigmatized consciences as Heinsius would have it flagitious branded hypocrites no wonder that they fall into all profanenesse Hierom Bolsec who had been a Carmelite at Paris Beza in vita Calv. cast off his Cowle but kept his Monkery and came to Geneva where he practised physick where being of no esteem in that faculty he would needs try what he could doe in Divinity and vented some points which were strange and sounded ill in the ears of that Church Calvin first dealt mildly with him but when all would not serve the Senate expel'd him At length he counterfeited great penitence and desired to be reconciled and received back into Geneva which they were enclined to doe but in the mean time perceiving some troublesome times towards Geneva he falls to the Papists rayles bitterly against the Protestant-Religion and ran into such profanenesse that he prostituted his own wife to the Canons regular of Augustoduvum in whose filthy stable he set up I could fit this story with some others but I have it in designe to undertake the Atheist in a particular Treatise Exercit. on Malach. p. 66. which promise I have once before intimated and will performe if God give opportunity and quiet times the encouragement of study and that I be not prevented by some abler pen which I rather desire as being a piece of work which though I have hung upon the warpe-wall I despaire almost of putting it into the loome as knowing my own want of skill to weave so fine and curious a peice 4. Hypocrites are mischievous Acts 20.29 Hypocrisie prognosticates much hurt to the Church St Paul in his exhortation to the Elders at Miletum speaking of such men calls them grievous wolves I know this that after my departure shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock He speakes of slye and hypocriticall seducers who as open tyrants are called wolves in regard of their cruell forcible ravenings so these are said to be wolves because of their craftinesse to get the prey Some Naturalists say that wolves will cry like wounded men that so they may deceive and call forth the Shepheards and by that meanes steale an opportunity to invade the flock and that they will come against the wind that the doggs which tend the fold may not sent them Nay there is yet a further craft then this In some Countries where they goe together in great numbers to assaile a flock of sheep by night they set one or two of their company in the wind-side of the fold afarre off who by their sent may cause the doggs and Shepheards to