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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03600	Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1638 (1638)	STC 13725; ESTC S119015	85,186	298

person and profession of a godly humble lowly man and he acts the part marveilous curiously and hee speakes bigge words against his corruptions and he humbles himselfe before God and he heares and prayes and reades but when God pluckes him off the stage of the world and his body drops into the grave and his soule goes to hell then it appeares that he had not the power of g●dlines he was onely a stage-player a stage professour When Saul went to the witch to raise him up Samuel the devill tooke upon him the guise of Samuel but he was the devill so many hipocrites though they have the guise of holinesse and the forme of godlinesse yet there is no soundnesse there is nothing but dissimulation within Hence note this That godlinesse hath a forme Doctr. 2 or more clearely thus Sound godlinesse alwayes shewes and discovers it selfe where it is in the life and conversation of him that hath it For it is not a meere fancy as some thinke And they thinke when wee talke of godlinesse and inward moving c. what say they will you have us Saints and Angels as if godlinesse were some secret thing that never saw the Sunne the Apostle doth professely oppose these and sayes they are reall thing and it is really in your hearts that have it and it doth not keepe close but appeares and discovers it selfe in a holy conversation outwardly Psal 45.13 The Text saith The Kings daughter and that is not all but her cloathing is of gold The Kings Daughter is the Church of God the Saints that God hath soundly humbled and powerfully converted they are the Daughters of God they are sanctified and purged and the Image of God is stamped upon them and what is their rayment outwardly it is of gold they have golden speeches golden conversations not durty filthy conversation as the wicked h●ve Act. 4.20 See how prevalent grace is where it is it was also the resolution of the Apostle 2 Cor. 4.13 it is also said of David he beleeved inwardly and therfore spake outwardly so must we or if wee rest upon God we will expresse the power of his grace in the course of our lives Looke as it is with a clock if the wheeles run right the clocke cannot but strike so it is with the trees of the field if there be sap in the roote it will discover it selfe in the branches by the fruit and greenenesse of them though it be hidden in the Winter yet it will appeare in the Spring and in the Summer so it is in the Soules of Gods Servants the frame of a mans heart that is like the wheeles of a clocke if a man have an humble heart he will have a holy life it will make the hand worke the eye see the foote walke and the actions be proportionable unto the disposition of the heart So if there be the sap of godlinesse and holinesse and meekenesse and patience in a mans spirit it will appeare in the blossome and fruites in good speeches actions and an holy conversation If there be sound grace in the heart and godlinesse within wee must not thinke godlinesse wil make a monster but it will make a comely decent proportionable Christian that is foure square in all good duties at all good duties at all times in all places upon every occasion I conclude with Iohn the Baptist Luk. 3.8 Worthy the word in the Original is fine Let your fruite be worthy that is answerable let them hold weight for weight with amendment of life if there be obedience in the heart it will answere such obediences outwardly lay obedience in one ballance and then repentance will poyse that obedience in the other scale But you will say how comes this to passe Object may not a man have a gracious good heart may not a man have a soule truely humbled and converted and yet be a retyred Christian and not expresse it Answ outwardly I answer no if there be holinesse in the heart it will shew it selfe without From the power of grace Reason 1 where ever it is imprinted upon any soule it will breake through and make way for it selfe what ever maketh opposition against it Mat. 6.22 The meaning is the eye is the Conscience the sincere eye is the sincere conscience now if a man have a good conscience inwardly his whole conversation will bee proportionable to the same Mat. 13.33 The grace of God is compared to leaven it will never leave leavening till it hath leavened all the whole lumpe if the heart be leavened with grace and godlinesse never thinke to keepe godlinesse in a corner and contrive it into a narrow compasse no no it will never leave leavening till the eye lookes holily and the hand workes mercifully Nay observe this in particular first let corruptions be never so strong in a gratious heart the power of godlinesse will over power all and worke out it selfe and get ground in conclusion Look as it is with the Moule put her into the ground and stop her up she will worke her selfe out one way or other so it is with a gracious frame of spirit though there be a great deale of earthly corruption yet a gracious heart will worke under ground and worke it selfe out of all these It is observed by naturall Philosophy when a Shippe is cast away the Sea vomits on the shore the dead persons and the Sea will not fetch them in againe so there is a Sea of grace in the soules of Gods servants there is but a beginning of grace indeede but there is abundance of life and vertue and power in the graces of Gods children so that though there be many corruptions much deadnesse and untowardnesse yet if this gratious worke be there it will vomit out all it will fling out those dead bodies but never take them in againe Ier. 20 4. observe when Ieremy out of a kind of discouragement and pride of spirit because he could not find that successe and some despised it and some scoffed I will preach no more saith he but even then the word of the Lord was as burning fire this was the power of this gratious frame of heart we speake of Matt. 12.35 Bring forth good things the word in the Originall is All cast out good things and it implies a kind of copulsion so that a holy man out of the treasure of holines casts out holy things that is how ever many corruptions hang about him and would hinder him from doing what hee should yet a good heart will cast out all and break through all Looke as it is with sire let it be raked up never so close yet there will be fire it will heate and burne and consume all into it selfe so it is with the sire of grace in a mans heart though there be many clogging corruptions yet if this grace be there though a man have a great deale of filthy noysome humors of vanity and coller and anger and carelessenesse yet this

fire will heat and burne make way kindle and turne all into a flame at conclusion Secondly it will not onely breake through all corruptions but through all outward occasions that comes against it Psa 39.3 The good man was among a company of mocke-gods that were flowting and gibing and now saith he I burned and spake with my tongue as who should say the grace of God was so powerfull that he could hold no longer he could beare no more but spake with his tongue Looke as it is with the Husband man he casts his seede into the ground and covers it over with earth yet that little seed will breake the earth and rend the ground and come out so it is with a godly and holy heart where in the immortall seede of Gods word is sowne though there be clogs and occasions of oppositions this way and that way and another way yet a gratious heart will breake through and the good worke of the Lord that is implanted in the soule will appeare in the life and conversation Consider Reason 2 the end why God gives grace which cannot be attained unto unlesse wee expresse the power of this grace outwardly as well as to have it inwardly in our hearts For marke the ends why God gives grace are principally these two First to glorifie the Lord Ephe. 1.6 There was such a proud heart humbled such a carnall wretch purified 1 Pet 2.12 I would have Gods children carry themselves so holily that the wicked may admire at them and glorifie God the second end why God gives grace that we may be a meanes to draw others on in the same way wherein God hath inabled us to walke 2 King 7.9 There they say Wee doe not well this day is a day of glad tidings come therefore let us tell it to the Kings houshold so it is with a mercifull gracious loving heart if God ever opens his eyes and shewes mercy to his soule and pardon his sins then he thinkes sure I doe not well that I doe not tell it to my fellow servants that they may love grace and embrace it and be blessed by it this thou must doe and ought to doe and this you cannot do if you keepe your grace secret within your hearts therfore tell your fellow servants of a truth I had as stony as carelesse a heart as you but it hath pleased the Lord to breake it it hath cost me many a sob and salt teare but now the Lord hath pardoned me did you but know the peace of a conscience you would never live as you doe this is the frame of a gratious heart Instruction Vse 1 that it is not a fault for any man to shew himselfe forward in a holy course and holy conversation know it is no fault to expresse that grace which God hath bestowed upon thee I speake this the rather by reason of the cavils of a company of carnall persons that cast reproaches upon this course ah say they they can make a shew but they are all hypocrites if a man knew their hearts they are as bad as the worst I answer how dost thou know their hearts to be bad we judge the tree by the fruite and we may judge the heart by the life and conversation But be his heart naught yet there is not a fault in that hee makes a shew to make a shew and to expresse holinesse is good but that is a fault that the heart is naught let that therfore which is good be commended and that which is naught be avoyded It is not the fault of gold that it glisters but that it glisters and is not gold But what heart is thine in the meane time that cannot indure so much as the shew of godlinesse it shewes a heart marveilous violent against God a heart marveilous Satanicall he that loves his father will love the picture of his father so if thou lovest holinesse thou wilt love the picture of holinesse But you will say we doe not discommend holinesse Object but it is this Hypocrisie that we disallow God forbid that we should speake against holinesse Give me leave to reply two things First Answ that which thou seest them want labor thou for and that which is good in them labour th●u to take up Thou that sayest those are Sermon hunters yet they will couzen and lye and the like dost thou speake against hearing the word and praying in families no oh but this couzening dissembling why then take thou that which is good sanctifie thou the Lords day and pray thou in thy family shew thy holinesse outwardly and bee thou also inwardly sincere but thou that hatest the forme of godlinesse it is a signe thou hatest the power of godlinesse Secondly if thou hatest them for hypocrisie then thou hatest them because they are sinnefull and if thou dost thou wilt hate those more that are greater sinners as a man that hates a tode the greater the tode is the more he loathes it so if thou hatest hypocrisie because it is sinneful then thou wilt hate that man which hath more sinne but thy conscience testifieth that thou canst love drunkards and harlots adulterers and speake wel of blasphemers those thou art content with and wilt not reproach them this is a great signe thou hatest holinesse and sincerity because thou hatest the shew thereof For reproofe it condems the opinions of a great company of carnall professours that bragge Vse 2 of their good heart when in the meane time they have base lives Take any carnall wretch that hath neither the forme nor shew he will though he make not such a shew as many doe but he hath as good a heart to God ward be not deceived God is not mocked this is an idle conceit of thine owne carving and coyning a thing that the Saints of God never found a thing that the Scriptures never revealed no no if grace be inwardly it will shew it outwardly You would thinke a man were beside himselfe that should tell you of a Sunne that did never shine or of a fire that did never heate this would be a strange sun a strange fire so it is a strange kind of imaginatiō thou hast thou thinkest thou hast a good heart and yet never expresse it outwardly in thy conversation it is well sometimes there may be a shew without a substance but this is impossible that there should be a substance without some appearance Should thou see a body lye on the bed and neither sence in it nor action proceeding from it you would say it is dead it lives not so in this case if faith worke not it is a fancy it is an idle foolish carnall presumption why faith purifies the heart and workes by love faith is mighty and powerfull and faith is operative and effectuall therefore thou that thinkest thou hast a holy heart and never shewest it in thy course it is a foolish delusion of thy heart therefore know this for an everlasting rule that