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A93061	The hypocrites ladder, or looking-glasse. Or A discourse of the dangerous and destructive nature of hypocrisie, the reigning and provoking sin of this age. Wherein is shewed how far the hypocrite, or formal professor may go towards heaven, yet utterly perish, by three ladders of sixty steps of his ascending. Together with a looking-glass, clearly discovering that lurking sin of hypocrisie. As also another glass to try sincerity of grace by. / By Jo. Sheffeild minister of the word at Swithins London.	Sheffeild, John, d. 1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing S3063; Thomason E1570_1	172,287	360

and Priests are spared 2 King 10. 28. and 31. 3 Between duty and duty he divides The easier cheaper safer duty he performs the hard costly offensive and prejudicial he neglects Hee is no Vniversallist unless for universal Election universal Redemption universal Admission to Sacraments or universal Toleration But never for universal Obedience flying all sin and performing every duty Hee Malach. 1. 14. 1 Sam. 15. 9. hath a male in his flock but will not offer that but the vile and refuse he can afford God not the best but the worst is best cheap here 4 Hee divides between Gifts and Graces Gifts hee admires and desires the most that he may excell So did Simon Magus that he might be Simon Magus some great one Grace he desires less Hee is content others should be more holy not more honoured Gifts may make him more acceptable to men Grace more serviceable to God he prefers acceptable before serviceable Grace brings God more honour Gifts him more honour And proximus sum egomet mihi is his first Maxime I am first for my self 5 Between Grace and Peace Hee likes both well but peace more he had rather have peace without grace than grace without peace A quiet conscience is more desired than a pure conscience with him The godly saith rather give mee grace than peace if not both he saith give me Grace Grace and Peace are alwayes joyned by the Apostles in their salutations and prayers but Grace put first But the hypocrite saith Peace and Grace And he crosseth hands laying his right hand on Peaces head his left on Graces preferring the younger before the elder as Jacob did to the Sons of Joseph Gen 48. 14. 6 Between Grace and Grace Justifying grace he admires sanctifying he undervalues Free and rich and full grace he extolls Efficacious grace he disclaims Sin-pardoning grace is all in all with him but distinguishing grace sin-purging sin-subduing heart-renewing grace he is a stranger to 7 Between Promises and Precepts The one he likes the other he dissikes Hee likes Beleeve onely and bee saved Hee Luke 10. 28. Mat. 19. 17. likes not Do this and live If thou wilt enter into life keep the Commandements and such like hard sayings 8 Between the Promises and the Conditions Hee likes the one not the other There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus This is a good saying worthy of all acceptation But that Rom. 8. 1. which follows Who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit This is an hard saying All things work together for good this he likes and repeats but leaves out To them that love God who are the called according to his purpose Rom. 8. 28. 9 Much more between the Promises and Threats Those he loves these hee trembles at If yee live in the flesh yee shall dye but if through the Spirit yee mortifie Rom. 8. 13. the deeds of the body yee shall live These conditional promises and comminations please him not whereas godly ones eye the condition as much as the promise and the commination too they dare not but minde 10 Between Priviledges and Duties To be justified to be the Sons of God by Adoption to be Heires of God 1 Pet. 1. 16. Rom. 12. 2. 13 14. Co-heires of Christ c. These are great things with him But be holy as God is holy Put on the Lord Jesus fashion not your selves to the world These please not Hee goeth away heavily when hee is told yet lackest thou one thing 11 Between purity of Ordinances and Consciences The one he stands up earnestly for the other he is carelesse of Hee looks to the washing of the cup not to the washing of his heart 12 Between faith and faith faith for soul and faith for body Hee can beleeve in God to save his soul without grace but he cannot rely on God to preserve him here without sin 13 Between Scripture and Scripture Hee studieth such Scriptures as may confute other mens errors but findes no Scripture to batter down his own corruptions Jehu could finde Scripture ready to justifie the murder of Joram of Jezabel of all Ahabs children and a first 2 King 9. 25. 36. 10. 10 Commandement to take away Baals house and Priests he could readily turn unto But hee could not finde the second Commandement to take away Jeroboams Calves And thus I have done with the first Glass CHAP. XVII The Sincere Christians Glass whereby the truth of Grace may be discovered I Come from the Hypocrites to the Sincere Christians Glass This is a better Glass and a more delightful not better for matter both being taken out of the Laver of the Sanctuary The Snuffers of the Sanctuary were of as Ex. 25. 38. good gold as the Incense-dishes though put to a meaner use The interpretation of the Bakers Dream was as good because true as that of the Butlers though not so pleasing because the Dream was worse and the event proved sadder The Butlers interpretation was called good because good Gen. 40. 16. to him So this will be a good glass to thee if thou canst see thy self in it otherwise we are to God as good interpreters of his revealed will and our Ministry as sweet a smelling savour in them that perish as in them that are saved though to the one wee are a savour of life to life to the other 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. the savour of death to death The former Glass I said was as well cleansing as discovering and I heartily wish that it may prove so to every one that looks into it and that this may as well be transforming as informing that whosoever as in a Glass beholding this Image of the sincere man may be changed into the same Image from glory to glory by the Spirit of God as the Apostle saith in another case 1 The sincere man is careful of the matter of duty and manner both but of the manner more our duties may be for matter good and commanded and for manner evil and condemned We may sin in doing good if not doing it well Amaziah and others did what was right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart And 2 Chron. 25. 2. 26 4. 27. 2 then it was ill Therefore remember the sic and quomodo Take heed how you hear as well as what you hear how you pray as well as that you pray c. The strange fire to a known God was greater sin in the sons of Aaron than a strange Altar to an unknown god to the men of Athens Act. 17. 23. And wee may observe the irreverent usage of the Ark by the men of Bethshemesh was more severely punished than the Philistims looking upon it as an Idoll and setting it up by Dagon fifty thousand Israelites slain at Bethshemesh 1 Sam. 6. 19. And most remarkable of all it is that when as the Philistims carried the Ark on a Cart it

the broadest that ever were yet came Jer. 51. 53. to bee made a heap of Nettles So the new and mystical Babylon that hath sate so long a Queen and hath set her Throne as the Throne of God must come down and bee burnt to ashes 2 So it is in Spirituals they who are now in an imaginary heaven of Gospel-happiness may bee thrown down to the lowest hell And on the other side the godly whose beginning was small and their present condition sad may bee lifted up in due time so was Jacob Joseph David Mordecai Job and others lifted up from poverty the dunghil and the dungeon and set among the Princes And which is better the Church which is at present afflicted and tossed but not comforted shall have her stones laid with fair colours and her foundations with Saphires Isa 54. 11. And which is better yet the soul that now sits in darkness walks in distress being deserted tempted discouraged may come to enjoy beauty for ashes the oyl of joy for mourning the Es 61. 3. garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and shall come to Sion with songs and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing Es 35. 10. shall bee done away And which is yet better best of all They who n●w sow in tears and mingle their drink with weeping being in much heaviness at present through manifold tem●tations are smitten into the place of Dragons and covered with the shadow of ●eath yea are in continual bondage all their life and wade through great tribulations shall at length bee ●et on Thrones cloathed with long white Robes and shall have their Palmes in their hands and glorious Crowns on their heads Observ 2. It is not the past or present state wherein men now are whereby they may bee denominated happy or miserable but the eternal state which they must abide by Capernaum had been lifted up to heaven The Apostate Angels had been possessed of heaven but neither the happier Woe to you that are full now that laugh now that are at ease in Sion now Go to now yee rich worldlings yee secure Professors Weep and howl your present delights shall end in eternal miseries After a short heaven a long hell After a short reign as Zimries of seven 1 King 16. 15. dayes a dreadful end after a sumptuous revel and riotous feast a terrible hand-writing on the wa●l as to Belshazzar after a merry sitting down a sudden and confused taking away as Adonijah from his usurped Crown after the second 1 King 1. 49. Banquet of wine a shamefull and unexpected execution as to Haman The Ester 7. 2. 10. joy of the hypocrite is short his sorrows to come not so his triumphing is but for a moment but his destruction is not Job 20. 5. for a moment They shall bee destroyed with an everlasting destruction from the 2 Thess 1. 9. presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power But as for you that are godly though you now lye among the pots and mourn as Doves in the valleyes Psal 68. 13. lift up your heads you shall bee as the wings of a Dove covered with silver and her feathers like gold You do weep and lament and the world doth rejoyce but your sorrow shall be turned Jo. 16. 20. into joy and their joy into bitterness It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you and to you who are troubled rest when the 2 Thes 1. 7 8 9 Lord shall bee revealed from heaven in flaming fire with his mighty Angels when hee shall be glorified in his Saints and admired in all them that beleeve For your shame you shall have double after a sour breakfast a sweet supper after a short hell a long heaven Here is the faith and patience of the Saints Observ 3. It is most dangerous living and dying in the best places if wee live unfruitfully It is better to live and dye in Sodome than at Capernaum Propius Jo●i propius fulmini It is worst living in a land of righteousness if wee work Iniquity A weed is safer in a hedge than in the Garden a stone in the high way than in the Vineyard They next the Sanctuary are nearest danger God will bee sanctified in such as are near to him or hee will get himself glory in their just destruction CHAP II. The chief Doctrine raised cleared and made good by many Iustances BUt the Point wee shall insist upon is this Jamjam tacturum sidera summa-Jamjam tacturum Tartara ●igra A formal Professor may go far flye high and seem to bee in a very fair way for heaven and salvation above all others yet is his last state woful fearful desperate Lifted up to heaven thrown down to hell Babylon was in an Allegorical heaven Es 14 14 15. yet tumbled down and some Expositors suppose our Saviour alludes to that speech in this place Tyre was in the highest terrestrial heaven in the highest region of an imaginary heaven Thy heart was lifted up and thou Ezek. 28. 2 3. 12 13 14. hast said I am a God I sit in the seat of God thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God Thou art wiser than Daniel Thou sealest up the summe full of wisdome perfect in beauty Thou hast been in Eden the Garden of God thou art the anointed Cherub c. who could bee higher yet thou shalt bee brought down to the pit and dye the vers 8. 10. vers 19. death of the uncircumcised yea thou shalt bee a terror and never bee any more Here is a sad conclusion after such an Exaltation Lucifer was in a real heaven lifted not up to but into heaven yet is now in chains of darkness Hypocrites and formal Professors may bee in a high place and form in the Ecclesiastical-heaven in a Scripture-heaven the visible Church is often called the Kingdome of heaven they may bee lifted up three stories high yet fall from this third loft with Eutichus 1 They are really lifted up by the hand of God are as vessels in his hand in a fair way to heaven vessels of honour they are planted in the choysest Vineyard 2 They are higher lifted up by the general acclamation of all that know them And 3 They are lifted up higher yet too too high in their own proud conceit and false opinion of themselves yet after all this miscarry Matth. 8. 12. Many shall come from the East and West and sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdome of heaven but the children of the Kingdome the Kingdome of heaven reputedly shall bee cast into utter darkness there shall bee weeping and gnashing of teeth Religio nunquam Periclitatur nisi inter Reverendissimos Luther said well and I may allude Salus nunquam adeo Periclitatur ac inter sanctissimos Religion is in most hazard of being

unanswerable Jerusalems sin past remedy of old and their sin filled up to the full at last The wrath of God came upon them to the very uttermost But the abuse and contempt of so much grace This fills up the Ephah This puts in the Zach. 5. 8. Talent of lead when the golden Talent of grace is rejected This makes the scarlet sin The blood of Christ trampled upon speaks worse things than the blood of Abel This made God call Israel the people of his wrath How shall wee escape if Isa 10. 6. Heb. 2. 3. wee neglect so great salvation said the Apostle This adds the great figure to the other Cypher and raiseth the reckoning to thousands and millions for by these mens sins 1 Religion is reproached 2 Gods name blasphemed 3 Wicked mens mouths opened 4 The mouths of the godly stopped their hearts are sadned as Jacobs their name and way and professions Gen. 34. 30. stinkes men cry out Here are your Professors Sermon-hearers they have the Bible often in their hands more in their mouths but the world flesh and devil is in their hearts They have a Crown of twelve Stars on their heads but are cloathed with the Moon not the Sun but the Sun trod under foot unlike that Woman described Rev. 12. 1. This makes Sion sit in the dust and the heart of Gods people mourn in secret But wo to them by whom this offence comes These are the sinking drowning damning sins the milstone sins CHAP. IV. Containing other Reasons viz. That all this while they are out of a Right State THe formal Professor after all his fair proceedings and high attainments falls short of heaven because hee fal●s short and is mistaken in three principal points 1 In point of his Estate 2 Of Duties 3 Of Graces First of all hee is mistaken in point of his Estate an hypocrite may bee out of many a state yet not out of a bad state and may bee in many states yet not in a safe state 1 Hee may bee out of a state of Ignorance 2 Pet. 2. 20. 2 Of Error 2 Pet. 2. 18. Hee may bee orthodox enough in his Tenents hee may hold the truth yet hold it in an unrighteous heart and life of his own Rom. 1. 19. 3 Out of a state of open prophaneness 2 Pet. 2. 20. 4 Of opposition and persecution Gamaliel would have no hand in molesting the Apostles for preaching their conscience nor would hee with his good will suffer others Act. 5. 38. 5 Hee may bee out of a state of unbeleef Act. 8. 13. 6 Out of a state of spiritual security and unsensibleness Cain Saul Judas were sensible with horror enough of their unhappy condition And many an hypocrite besides Is 33. 14 15. 7 Hee may bee out of a state of horror also Luke 11. 25. have nothing but peace within But hee is never out of a state of unregeneracy 2 Hee may bee in a state again on the other side 1 Of Knowledge Rom. 2. 20. Joh. 9. 41. 2 Of great Profession Tit. 1. 16. An hypocrite may bee a Professor of the highest Name and Note the greatest Hypocrite in the world is the greatest Professor viz. Antichrist who sits in the 2 Thess 2. Temple of God as the Vicar of Christ There are ordinary Professors who call the themselves Jews but are not Rev. 3. 9. And there are Professors above them who say they are Apostles but are not Rev. 2. 2. And there are some far above them who say they are Christs the Messias c. but are cursed Impostors Mat. 24. 24. 3 An hypocrite may bee in a state of Civility Matth. 23. 27. be a whited Sepulchre 4 Hee may bee in a state of Restraining grace Gen. 20. 6. 5 Hee may bee in a state of Common sanctification Heb. 6. 4. and 10. 29. 6 In state of Faith Act. 8. 13. Luke 8. 13. 7 Of Repentance as Judas Matth. 27. 3. 8 Of Confidence 1 Thess 5. 3. crying Peace peace Job 18. 13. But no hypocrite in the world is in a state of Grace of Conversion Regeneration and Renovation in the spirit of his mind no hypocrite can make out his new birth the new creature the Divine nature his implanting into Christ his living in Christ Christ living in him his being in the Spirit walking in the Spirit hee may bee one standing in the outer Court or one of the houshold of faith hee is not got so far yet as to bee of the middle Temple or the Church mystical on earth or to bee one of the houshold of truth therefore is never like to bee one of the inner Temple or the houshold of love in a Right sense as all the blessed ones are Hee may as the Camelion take all colours but white bee in any state but the right Such are said Jeremy the second to try many conclusions take up and lay down many courses yet never the nearer 1 They are said vers 23. To traverse their wayes 2 Then to mend the matter as you would think to trim their wayes vers 33. And after vers 36. to gad about and to change their wayes But after all this traversing and trimming and gadding and changing their wayes no reforming their wayes CHAP. V. How the Hypocrite fails in point of Duty THere are two things I shall speak to in pursuance of this point 1 Shew what duties an hypocrite is wholly defective in 2 Shew wherein hee differs from a truly godly person in the duties which hee doth perform 1 There are some duties which no hypocrite doth perform As 1. to speak of Prayer an hypocrite may pray no hypocrite doth or can pray in the Spirit or doth watch in prayer 1 Cor. 14. 15. Eph. 6. 18. Zach. 7. 3. Col. 4. 2. hee may bee long or loud in prayer may weep possibly at prayer doth not watch in prayer 2 An hypocrite may say many a prayer many a Pater noster or Lords prayer no hypocrite doth say Daniels prayer and put that into his Liturgy without which all prayers are in vain you may perish with Our Father in your mouth if you have not Daniels prayer in your heart viz. praying that wee may turn from all our Dan. 9. 13. iniquities and understand the truth I have heard some ignorant people say sometime God give us to pray that Good prayer that God may hear this is that good prayer you may pray all manner of prayer and supplication but if you regard iniquity in your hearts God will not Psal 66. 18. regard all your prayers 3 Though I said an hypocrite may say the Lords prayer and not Daniels hee may huddle it over I mean yet no hypocrite is serious in saying the Lords prayer ask him Philips question But understandest Act. 8. 30. thou what thou readest and dost thou minde what thou sayest And he must answer How can I except I had a new heart There are two things wherein hee fails as to the