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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91526	Jewish hypocrisie, a caveat to the present generation. Wherein is shewn both the false and the true way to a nations or persons compleat happiness, from the sickness and recovery of the Jewish state. Unto which is added a discourse upon Micah 6.8. belonging to the same matter. / By Symon Patrick B.D. minister of the word of God at Batersea in Surrey.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1660 (1660)	Wing P817; Thomason E1751_1; Thomason E1751_2; ESTC R203168	156,691	423

a thousand that make a conscience not to sin and to keep a Fast every day to God by the constant practice of mortification and holy living If railing and swearing against their enemies if damning and cursing those that are the cause of our troubles were the things that would cure our Nation we need not light a candle to find a multitude of such Saviours their deeds of darkness being so open and manifest And if praying fasting and such like things had been plaisters broad enough for our wounds they had been long since closed by many pretenders But as for those who pray for their enemies and live all their prayers and exercise daily denyal of themselves though they are not so few but we can see their light shining before men yet they are scarce enough to testifie to all men that their deeds are evil nor have they been able hitherto to dash the out-side Religion out of countenance and to prevail for salvation to be brought to us I leave it to the private scrutiny of every mans conscience to find whether or no he be in the number of those that are healing their wounds slightly or of those that thoroughly amend their wayes and doings And I have said enough to let him know the state of his soul if he will impartially ransack his heart and have no mind to put a cheat upon himself If it be necessary further to assist him the explication of the second thing which I proposed to be considered will I hope contribute some further help to his sincere search both into his own and the whole Nations condition unto which I shall now betake my self CAP. VIII 1. The remedy that God prescribed them by his Prophets was a general reformation 2. The proof of it from them and other things also 3. How they came notwithstanding to be so negligent in matters of greatest moment 4. Which were the duties of the second Table as appears out of Zachary 5. The Rulers especially neglectfull in these things and how it came to pass 6. They might easily have known better therefore the sin was greater 7. And their fore-fathers being corrected for them made their persisting in them more inexcusable 8. No peace without these 9. The summe of many of the following Chapters consisting of four general heads 1. THE Prophets of God were not like the Fanatique spirits which are now in the world that know how to find fault with what is in use but cannot advise how to amend it nor like Ignorant Physitians that cry out upon all vulgar and old-wives medicines but know not themselves how to apply any that are more proper for the disease But when they cast so much disrespect upon their Fasts and other Religious duties they directed to the true use of them and when they showed how the false Prophets that were among them did but flatter and humour their distemper they discovered its true nature and prescribed them a certain and effectual way of cure And it was no far-fetcht medicine to which they advised them there was no need that they should climb up to heaven and consult with the Planets or go beyond the Sea and traffique with some strange Countrey for it as we do for drugs to cure our bodily diseases but the Word was nigh them even in their mouthes and in their hearts that they might do it A general reformation of their manners was that to which they exhorted if the people expected a General good as he that doth not want eyes may read in every leaf of their Books All the exercises of devotion which they used were but in order to this And without this all their Fasts were but painful provocations all their Confessions but accusations brought in against themselves all their Prayers but the labour of their lungs which like bellows did make the fire of Gods anger burn and not blow it out And especially they earnestly beseeched the Governors and Leaders of the people to amend who have a manifest influence upon a whole Nation and after whose fashion almost every body uses to dress himself For which cause their sins are sometimes alone named in holy Writ as procuring Gods Judgements upon a Land because by their neglect and ill example the rest run more pronely into all wickedness 2. And therefore Jeremiah commands all the words of his prophesie to be written in one book and read to all the people upon their fasting day in the fourth year of Jehoiakim as you may see Jer. 36.6 which was perhaps upon the day of expiation when the great Fast was observed And again the next year upon occasion of another Fast which was proclaimed ver 9. he took the same course and caused Baruch to read his exhortations and threatnings in the ears of all the people of Jerusalem and those that came likewise out of the Cities of Judah to Jerusalem Hereby teaching them that their fasting and praying was to no purpose unless they hearkened to Gods voice by returning every man from his evil way which he saith was the only way to obtain forgiveness of their sins ver 3. and 7. And they might have understood this even from the manner of their offering sacrifices in which they so much trusted He that brought a burnt-offering was to lay his hand upon the head of it before it was slain Lev. 1.4 which was an evident sign 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if we may believe Philo a learned man of that Nation of innocence and an unreprovable life conforming with the Law of nature For God saith he would have him that sacrificeth first of all to have a mind purified and exercised in pious and profitable principles and then a life consisting of the most excellent actions so that he may be able confidently to say out of a pure conscience when he layes on his hands L. de anim l. sacrificio idoneis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. These hands did never receive a bribe to do wrong nor have they touched innocent blood nor have they been instruments of any hurt injury wound or force nor have they ministred to any other dishonest action but they have been serviceable to all things good and profitable and which are approved by the Laws and by all good men And he takes notice likewise that the blood being the soul as it were of the living creature the pouring out of that signified the offering of our souls to God And that it was therefore poured out round about the Altar because a circular figure being most perfect it should signifie That the whole soul should be given to him and that all the mind should cheerfully move and as it were dance round in all kind of words thoughts and deeds according to the divine pleasure 3. A great wonder then it may be to some that they should be so defective in matters of the greatest concernment while they were so curious even to superstition in the outside of these services Especially