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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	enter_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,630	5	11.0710	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14108	A plaine discouerie of ten English lepers, verie noisome and hurtfull to the Church and common wealth setting before our eies the iniquitie of these latter dayes, and inducing vs to a due consideration of our selues. Published by Thomas Timme minister.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1592 (1592)	STC 24418; ESTC S118801	68,904	98

A good sheepheard is to be loued a hireling is to be tollerated but a theefe of all other is to bee shunned The fourth Leper is the Hypocrite THis mans Lerposie is a bad colour in the outskinne of the which the Lord speaketh thus to Moses and Aaron Leuit. 13. The man that shall haue in the skin of his flesh a swelling or a scabbe or a white spot so that in the skinne of his flesh it bee like the plague of leprosie then hee shall bee brought to Aaronthe Priest c. Hypocrites haue a diuersitie of colour in the skinne because through a proude singularitie they endeuour to differ from other men both in maners and in conuersation Neuerthelesse they haue another colour vnder the skinne in the flesh pretending one thing outwardly and being otherwise within hauing one thing in the mouth and another thing in the heart outwardly a false shew of godlines and within full of all iniquitie Such as were they of whome Saint Luke speaketh thus The Priests and Scribes watched him and sent forth spies which shoulde feigne themselues iust men Luke 20. to take him in his talke c. Of this Hypocrisie Saint Augustine writing vpon the Psalme 63 saieth thus Simulata sanctitas non est iniquitas sed duplex iniquitas quia iniquitas est simulatio Feigned holinesse is not simplie iniquitie but double iniquitie because it is both iniquitie and dissimulation For this cause our Sauiour Christ saith Except your righteousnesse exceede the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Phariseis Math. 5. ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen The righteousnesse of the Scribes and Phariseis was vaine and full of ostentation by which they sought to be praysed of men They fasted they prayed they gaue almes c. that they might be seene of men Their righteousnesse was in worde but not in deede as Christ himselfe testifieth of them They say sayeth hee and doe not For they binde heauie burthens and grieuous to be borne and lay them on mens shoulders but they themselues will not mooue them with one of their fingers To teach and not to doe condemneth the teacher And therefore of Christ the true Doctor it is sayde That hee began to doe and to teach Of such Doctours which teach and doe not Acts. 1. Saint Gregorie writeth thus Vult hypocrita scire diuina eloquia nec tamen facere vult docte loqui nec tamen viuere The hypocrite desireth to knowe the woorde of God but not to practize it to speake learnedly but not to liue thereafter And if it fortune that these doe anie thing that seemeth good yet the intention of the same is not good but rather they doe it to an hypocriticall ende And therefore Saint Chrisostome of this pharisaicall righteousnesse speaketh thus Phariseorum iustitia erat in ostentatione non in rectitudine intentionis in locutione non in opere in corporis afflictione non in mandatorum obseruatione c. The righteousnesse of the Phariseis was in the ostentation of the worke not in the vprightnesse and sinceritie of the intention in speaking not in doing in the affliction of the bodie not in the keeping of the commandements and in the lesser obseruations leauing the more weighty things of the law These hypocrites which seeme to be religious worshippers of God and are not are politike Machiuilians which make a shew to loue the gospel but it is either to gaine credite therby or to get gaine promotion or else to cōpasse their subtil deuises But detestable and diuelish is their hypocrisie who to attain to any dignitie either ecclesiasticall or ciuill or else to make their false doctrine the more easily receyued and imbraced doe feigne to haue that holinesse which they haue not nor yet regard Such hypocrites may fitly be compared vnto falling starres which men call Assub which in the night time seeme to be in the Firmament and to bee true starres in deede and yet are not so but certaine fatte exhalations onely lifted vp from the earth which being eleuated through the vpper region of the ayre are kindled by the heate and force of the vppermost Element which is fire and so being kindled doe fall againe euenso these hypocrites vnto men that looke not into them seeme to be sperituall light inflamed of God and are thought in minde to be conuersant in heauen when as in trueth they are nothing lesse Iob. 20. As therefore the light of such supposed starres is momentany and vanishing euen so is the ioy of hypocrites For what is the ioy hope of al hypocrites in their workes and actions surely nothing but the reuerence of honor the glory of praise to be feared of better men then them selues of all men to be called holy This is theyr ioie and therefore theyr only portion and rewarde They are like vnto image-caruers who haue a care only to polish paint and beautifie the outwarde forme to please the beholders not caring for the backe partes or for that which is in ward and when they haue done all that they can yet can giue no life vnto it So the hypocrite seemeth to be holy in the sight of men and therfore behaueth him selfe accordingly painting his actions with a shew of righteousnes whereas neuertheles within both his inwarde partes which are alwaies in the sight of God and also his backe partes that is to saie the end of his life and the iudgement of God are neglected Therefore an hypocrite is but as a picture or shadow of a righteous man and without truth and life There is as great defference betwene the working of hypocrisie the working of grace as betwene the working of arte and the operation of nature Art worketh only outwardly as may appeare by the arte of grauing caruing and painting such like But nature worketh first inwardely as is manifestly to be seene in the generation of liuing creatures in whom the heart and other vitall members are first formed For grace worketh first inwardly reformeth the mind through the loue of God the loue of our neighbour Afterward it reformeth mens tongues their manners and their whole life of the which the Apostle wryteth thus Ephes 4. Be ye renued in the spirite of your mind and put on the newe man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse But agaynst hypocrisie and dissimulation which is in the outwarde man Christ pronounceth this curse Wo vnto you Scribes and Phariseis yee are like vnto painted sepulchres which appeare beautifull outwarde but within are full of dead mens bones and all filthinesse Matt. 23. Wo vnto you Scribes and Phariseis hypocrites for ye make cleane the vtter side of the cuppe and of the platter but within ye are full of briberie and excesse The righteousnesse of the Scribes and Phariseis was seuere and cruell for they vrged the lawe of Retaliation and required an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth This