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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84091	An essay on hypocrasie and Pharisaism. As it was set forth in a Sermon / by A curate of souls.	Curate of Souls.; J. W.	1683 (1683)	Wing E3288; ESTC R176777	25,935	40

AN ESSAY ON HYPOCRISIE AND Pharisaism As it was set forth in a SERMON By a Curate of SOULS LONDON Printed by J. C. and Freeman Collins for Charles Yeo Bookseller in Exon. 1683. To the Worshipful WILLIAM LACY Sen. Esq One of His Maiesties Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace for the County of SOMERSET Honoured Sir THe Authour of this ensuing Discourse has been importuned by divers Friends to make it publick long since If he had done it himself you might have expected a more formal Epistle But it seems other Considerations or Persons have been more prevalent with him He has notwithstanding upon a Friends request been so courteous as to impart a Copy of it for my own satisfaction And truly whatever his reasons may be against it I am confident they cannot out-weigh the significancy of its Publication I have therefore adventured upon his Candour to do that Service to the World which his Modesty or I know not what would not permit him And also to Dedicate his Endeavours to Your self not onely because you are a great friend to the Author as of whom he often speaks with the most grateful resentments but also because you are a known Patron of his Subject of that Truth and Simplicity that Ingenuity and Sincerity which he contends for If I have herein made too bold with you or him I leave my good intention to plead for me and beg pardon J. W. LUKE 12.1 First of all beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees which is Hypocrisie AS for the Occasion of these words it arose upon an invitation of our Saviour to a Dinner by one of the Pharisees Now it was a custom with the Pharisees to wash just before they sate down to meat which they strictly observed as a matter of Religion And because our Saviour did not make so superstitious an account of it therefore the Pharisee marvelled that he had not washed before dinner Whereupon our Lord took occasion to speak his mind freely to the Pharisees He told them that while they took so much care to make clean the outside their inward parts were full of ravening and wickedness And therefore he denounced several woes against the Pharisees for being so over-nice and zealous about their external rites that so they might appear righteous unto men whilest in the mean time they neglected the weightier matters of the Law and were inwardly full of most dangerous refervs most wicked and abominable designs Upon this the proud Pharisees were sorely netled and presently they were for revenge upon our Saviour cap. 11. v. 53 54. As he said these things unto them the Scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently and to provoke him to speak of many things laying wait for him and seeking to catch somthing out of his mouth that they might accuse him And while they were hot in discourse in the mean time there were gathered together an innumerable company of people insomuch that they trode one upon another and he began to say to his Disciples they were nearest to him but so as all the people heard and what did he say why First of all beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisie These Pharisees it seems were a dangerous and ensnaring sort of folk they were men of the deepest dissimulation and disguise they were right skill'd in the crafty tricks of insinuation and surprizal and had alway treacherous designs upon such as were not of their Sect and Persuasion Oh they were a viperous generation They devised all the ways they could to catch and entangle our blessed Saviour but he knowing their hearts could the better prevent and avoid them Yet their guile being not so discernible to others to the intent therefore that the harmless world might not any longer be so much abused and imposed on by their frauds He made it his business ever and anon to discover the wiles and arts of the Pharisees and the danger of them and to stir up his Auditors with all earnestness and importunity to have the mightiest care of them that they could As first of all or chiefly and above all things to beware of this Leaven the Leaven of the Pharisees which is Hypocrisie To give this Text its due I conceiv these three things should be done 1. Should be set forth the nature of Hypocrisie in general that we do not proceed upon a mistaken Ground 2. The special and eminent Hypocrisie mentiond in the Text the Leaven of the Pharisees that we may have a distinct understanding of it 3. The danger of this Hypocrisie that we may be the more cautious of it I shall endeavour accordingly First To state unto you the nature of Hypocrisie in general And indeed much of the nature of things is many times discovered in their names The word Hypocrite does properly signify a Stageplayer one that undertakes to personate others in their speech or habit their action or demeanor and when it is used in religious and moral concerns as it is alway in the Scriptures it denotes a naughty person in the shape and guise of one that is a religious and good man The Heb. word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifyes both a wicked man and a deceiver q. d. one that is really wicked but deceivs men by seeming otherwise And our Saviour sets forth the Hypocrites Mat. 6. by their giving alms and praying and fasting by performing their religious exercises in the most eminent and conspicuous ways that they may be seen of men and deemed to be very holy persons when meanwhile their hearts are full of all abominations As to the rank and station of Hypocrisie among the vices it standeth in opposition to the christian vertue of simplicity and sincerity whereof the Aposte speaks 2. Cor. 1.12 For our rejoycing is this the Testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisedom we have had our conversation here in this world and more abundantly toward you Sincerity is that vertue whereby we do honestly and fairly make known our minds when it is proper to discover ourselvs to one another and the Apostle had conversed so ingenuously in this respect that he had great comfort in himself about it and he did even rejoice to think on 't But his conversation could have bin no such Cordial to him if he had had it in fleshly wisdom i. e. if he had craftily imposed on the world by representing things or persons otherwise than indeed they were with an evil purpose Fleshly wisedom is a general term I take it whereby the Scripture intends all manner of craft and guile for the promotion of naughty ends but when Religion or vertue is counterfeited for such purposes the Holy Ghost calls it by the more proper and special name of Hypocrisie From what hath bin said of Hypocrisie in general we may adventure these two Conclusions 1. That the subject matter of all Hypocrisie is an endeavouring to beguile the world into an