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A93117	Sincerity and hypocricy. Or, the sincere Christian, and hypocrite in their lively colours, standing one by the other. Very profitable for this religion professing time. / By W.S. Serjeant at Law. Together with a tract annexed to prove; that true grace doth not lye so much in the degree as in the nature of it.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?; Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691. Tract annexed to prove.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3210; Thomason E1822_1; ESTC R209797	215,937	433

not his brother 2 Cor. 6. 6. 1 Iohn 2. 10. 6 Victory over the world 1 Iohn 5. 4. Whosoever is born of GOD overcometh the world 7 A strong love to and desire after the Word of God and a conformity of heart and life to it Psalm 119. 97. Oh how I love thy Law c. I have esteemed the words of his mouth better than my necessary food Iob 23. 12. Luke 8. 15. 1 Pet. 2. 3. SECT III The summe of all this Head Now of all that wee have spoken as to this point in hand and head of tryal this is then the summe That a man may enjoy all outward Gospel Priviledges such as the manifestations of Gods presence c. all Gospel Ordinances and means of Grace as Word Sacraments Sabbaths all advantages imaginable by parents education society c. Have great gifts and parts and doe much with them as Preach Pray and the like That he may in appearance be converted from the world be changed in his outward conversation cast off all his outward pollutions be so much reformed that hee may appear unblameable in the sight of men have much light from the Word of God be clearely convinced of the truth of it have such a taste of perswasion that the good thereby promised and offered doth belong to him as thereby to bee drawn to come to Christ in an open profession and some inward affections close with his Church be a Church-member bee taken of others and take himselfe to bee a true member ' seemingly own Iesus Christ for his Lord and submit to his Law live orderly with Christians in Church-fellowship and there make a glorious profession of the Gospel proceed to have many singular gifts and seeming graces do many excellent things and so live and dye yea live and dye a Martyr in the defence of the Gospel hee professeth yea he may have such a discovery of the Grace of God in Christ by the Gospel and such a seeming worke of Faith and Love in his soul as that he may bee perswaded that Christ and Heaven is his And upon this have a little love or shew of love to God and his people and live in a kinde of hope joy and expectation of Heaven to his dying day and yet be in his corrupt and unregenerate estate and perish And that he onely that is regenerate renewed by the Holy Ghost and VVord of God in his nature to be like Christ shall bee reputed sincere and so saved at last But to give a shorter account hereof let the summe of all bee this That the most certaine and infallible character of the true and living Christian and one that is a Christian indeed John 1. 47. And that whereby he may bee best known and distinguished from the counterfeit and painted Christian the Hypocrite is by that which is within him where the Kingdome of God is Luke 17. 20 21. Hee is the sincere Christian that is so inwardly Rom. 2. 29. And in him these things following are to bee found The Spirit of God and Christ is given unto him 1 Iohn 3. 24. 1 Iohn 4. 3. Rom. 8. 10 11 15. Galat. 4. 6. Rom. 8. 9. 1 Cor. 2 12. 1 Iohn 4. 13. And according to the new Covenant Isaiah 44 3. and 32. 15. Ezek 39. 29. Ioel 2. 29. Zachar. 12. 10. compared with Acts 2. 17. This spirit hee receives in the Preaching of the Gospel Galat. 3. 2. By this spirit in the Gospel hee is convinced of his own desperate and helplesse case out of Christ and that his help is in Christ alone Iohn 26. 8. And thereupon is drawne to Christ whom hee doth embrace by Faith Iohn 6. 44. Hebrews 11 13. Philip. 3. 12. Ephes 3. 16 17. Iohn 6. 56. 2 Corinth 4. 13. This Spirit and GOD the Father in it abideth and dwelleth in him 1 Corinth 3. 24. 1 Iohn 4. 13. Iohn 6. 56. Ephes 2. 22. And hee in whom this Spirit is abideth and dwelleth in GOD. 1 Corinth 3. 24. 1 John 4. 13. John 6. 56. By this Holy Spirit Christ and the soule are firmely united together and doe become even as Husband and VVife Romans 7. 4. Canticles 1 2 c. and are so joyned as the Tree and Branches Iohn 15. 1 c. Head and Body 1 Cor. 11. 3. Eph. 5. 23. Body and Soul Ephes 2. 5. Hence followeth presently a very great an universal change of the soul within appearing in the life without The change is from darkness to light from bondage to liberty from sinne to grace from death to life c. and is called Regeneration by which here is produced a new creature the soul whereof is this Spirit of God abiding in him compared to the natural generation conception and birth Iohn 3. 6. Iohn 12. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 22. Tit. 3. 5. Galat. 4. 19. 2 Cor. 5. 17. Galat. 5. 15. This Spirit of God being as the soul in the body in this new creature doth animate it Ephes 2. 5 6. Rom. 8. 11. And by it the old man is changed into a new man there is a new nature hee partakes of the divine nature 2 Pet. 1. 4. a new life Gal. 2. 20. Col. 3. 21. 1 Iohn 5. 12. This change is from the state of nature to the state of grace from the likeness of the old to the likenesse of the new Adam he hath now in him the minde of Christ Ephes 4. 24. Phil. 2. 5. 1 Cor. 15. 46 47. Phil. 3. 9. Hee now lives the life of Christ 1 Pet. 4. 6. 1 Iohn 2. 5 6. 1 Iohn 3. 24. and according to the Gospel of Christ 2 Cor. 3. 18. The Holy Spirit thus dwelling and animating in and acting of this new creature and being in it self a spirit of light life and grace Zach. 12. 10. Rom. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 1. 4. It governs him in whom it is and hee is led by it and walks after it according to the Word of God 1 Pet. 1. 22. 2 Cor. 3. 18. And as the lively pure spring doth worke out the mire and mudde out of it self so this spirit doth work out of the heart the ignorance and corruption thereof and make and keep it pure Acts 15. 9. It killeth sin Rom. 8. 10 13. Destroyeth the workes of the Devil and Flesh 1 Iohn 3. 8. Such as are Adultery Uncleannesse Lasciviousnesse Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulation VVrath Strife Sedition Heresies Envyings Murder Drunkenness and such like Gal. 5. 17. And quickneth inclineth and disposeth the whole heart and consequently the whole man to grace and goodnesse Rom. 8. 10. And such like fruits as these following Righteousnesse Joy Love Long suffering Gentlenesse Faith Goodnesse Meeknesse Temperance and the like Gal. 5. 19. Rom. 14. 17. and the manifestation and exercise thereof in the life are the natural and proper works fruits effects of this spirit Gal. 5. 22 23. Rom. 14. 17. 2 Cor. 5. 13. Rom. 8. 26. 2 Cor. 8. 17. Acts 2. 4. Gal. 4. 6. And

commandement of God and rebelled against him Isa 58. 6 7 8. Gen. 4. 13 14. 2 Much after the same manner is the repentance and sorrow of the Saints upon their particular falls into gross sins Psal 51. 1. And for their daily weaknesses and frailties there is a daily and continual repentance and mourning for it Rom 7. 24. SECT XIII 12 In their Humilitie The true Christian must be and is of an humble and lowly frame of spirit and hath low and mean thoughts of himself and of his own works and worth and hath an humble confidence in the free Grace of God in Christ only for all the good he looks for here and hereafter Mat. 18. 8. Psal 131 1. Gen. 32. 10. The Hypocrite we grant hath a kind of humility also Col. 2. 18 23. The difference between them lyeth in this 1 The true Christian being truly humble doth declare it by his whole conversation in word deed Psal 131. 2. Neither doe I exercise my self in great matters or in things too high for me The Hypocrites humility is shewed onely in some particulars and in other things he sheweth himselfe very proud Mat 23. 5 6. The true Christian doth prefer other men and their gifts before himself and his own gifts and hath an honourable esteem of all such as are of worth but suspecteth himself 1 Tim. 1. 15. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the chief Luke 18. 13. But the Hypocrite having high thoughts of himself and his works and worth ●tusts to himself and despiseth others better than himself Luke 18. 11. The Phaiisee stood up and praied thus with himself God I thank thee that I am not as other men are Extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this Publican Hab. 2. 4. Behold his soul that is lifted up is not upright in him c. SECT XIV 13 In their joy and delight in God The true Christian doth may and must rejoice and delight in God and Christ and in the things of God 1 Chron. 29. 9. 17. Psal 119. 47. But the Hypocrite hath also some delight and joy in God and in his Word c. But there is a great difference between this affection in the one and in the other 1 The true Christian doth rejoice and delight in God and Christ and the matters of God for themselves and the goodness and holiness therof Psal 27. 1 2 c. Psal 63. 1 2 c. and 84. 2 3 c. Rom. 7. 22. But the Hypocrite doth not delight in God at all Iob 27. 10. Will he delight himself in the Almighty Or if his delight be in the Word of God it is for some good it seems to hold forth or that he apprehends in it to himself 2 The delight and sweetness that is wrought in the heart of the true Christian ariseth from an inward principle or new nature that is within him which was formed by the power of the Spirit of Christ Ps 110. 3. But there is none of this in the Hypocrite for he is without the Spirit of Christ Jude 19. and he was never changed by it 3 The joy and delight of the true Christian is a deep large and transcendent joy Ps 119. 14. 72. Phil. 4 7. It passeth all understanding Ps 71. 23. Psal 4 7. But the joy of the Hypocrite is but a shallow sleight and superficiall joy compared to the taste of a thing Heb. 6. 10. He hath much more joy and delight in his just as Iudas in his covetousness and Herod in his Herodias than in God and the things of God Psal 4. 8. 4 The joy of a true Christian is a clear and pure joy and there is no sorrow in it Prov. 10. 22 But the joy of the Hypocrite is an obscure and mixed joy Prov. 14. 13. Even in laughter their heart is sorrowful c. 5 It is in the upright accompanied with godly sorrow that goeth before or with it Psal 2. 11. Acts 2. 37 38. But all the joy that is in the heart of the temporary is without this as in Herod Mark 6. 20. Ezek. 33. 32. Mat. 13. 20. 6 The joy of the upright man grows up by grees and leisurely Acts 2 37. 38 46. Isa 64. 5. But the Hypocrites joy is up and very high upon a suddain Mat. 13 20. 7 The joy of a sincere man is a lasting and permanent joy Isa 35. 10. Psal 35 10. But the joy of the Hypocrite is but for a moment it is soon up and soon down Job 20. 5. Mat. 13. 20 21. Psal 106. 12. 13. Then beleeved they his words they sang his praise they soon forgat his works c. 8 There is strength in the joy of the sincere man Neh 8. 10. For it will help him to bear his cross Rom. 5. 1 2. Psal 119 92. Phil. 4. 7. But otherwise it is of the Hypocrites joy for when tribulation comes he falls off and hath no strength to bear it Mat 13. 21. Luke 8. 31. 9 It will make him that is sincere more carefull and active for God whiles he is on his feet and when he falls it will help to recover him Luke 1. 74 78 79. Acts 9. 18 19 20. Psal 119. 32 93. Psal 77. 6. SECT XV. 14 In their desires The true Christian hath and must have good desires motions and dispositions to good Ps 37. 4. Isa 26. 8 9. 2 Cor. 7. 11. The Hypocrite also hath somewhat like to this Numb 23. 10. Joh. 6. 34. Luke 14. 15. But there is a great difference 1 Those desires of the sincere Christian are eager and earnest 1 Cor. 14. 1. Psal 42. 1. As the Hart panteth c. Cant. 2. 5. I am sick of love Psal 143. 7 and 119. 20. Mat 5. 4 6. But these of the Hypocrite are weak and faint desires that can away with delay and denial Numb 23. 10. Iohn 5. 34 35 36. 2 The desires of the upright are laborious and diligent desires that make a man industrious in the use of all means to attain them as in the bodily hunger which will break through stone walls as that in Paul Phil. 3. 8 9. I count all things but losse c. and dung to win Christ verse 13 14. I presse towards the mark c. and David Ps 119 20 40 c. But these of the Hypocrite are sloggish and he is notwithstanding them lazie like to the sluggard Prov. 21. 22. 26 and 13. 5. So those Iohn 6. 34 35. So Balaam Numb 23. 10. desired to die the death but would not take the pains to live the life of the righteous 3 The true desires are constant and restless desires Psal 119. 20. My soul breaketh for c. at all times Psal 84. 2. My soul longeth c. But these of the Hypocrite are unconstant and sickle desires Iames 1. 7 8. a double minded man is unstable c. and he is like a deceitful bow Hosea 6. 16. SECT XVI 15 In their