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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94171	Hypocrisie discovered in its nature and workings. Delivered in several sermons, by that faithfull minister of the Gospell, Mr Cuthbert Sidenham, late teacher to a Church of Christ in Newcastle upon Tyne.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing S6300; Thomason E1504_3; ESTC R208667	84,791	234

HYPOCRISIE DISCOVERED In its NATURE and WORKINGS Delivered in several Sermons By That faithfull Minister of the Gospell Mr Cuthbert Sidenham Late Teacher to a Church of Christ in Newcastle upon Tyne LONDON Printed by W. H. for Rich. Tomlins at the Sun and Bible in Pye-Corner 1654. For the Honourable Sir Arthur Hesilrig Knight and Baronet Sir YOu that have so long professed the name of the Lord Jesus and have been honoured to suffer for him in no ordinary trials and been drawn out to great employments cannot but have met with various workings of your own heart in these times especially having gone both through good and evill report all which will discover much of that which is within a man to himself this being upon our spirits with the more than ordinary respects you shewed to this precious servant of Christ the Author of these Sermons hath drawn us out to prefix your name to this worke as being willing to beare witnesse to the world though he be in his grave how much he resented your favour and love towards him Sir the matter of this Book you will find very searching but Gold loseth nothing by the criticall examination of the fire but its drosse which no reall Saint but will rejoyce to part with We question not but in the reading of it you will find speciall advantages for your spirituall interest for the teachings of the spirit of that God who hath hitherto helped you who was with you in the field and covered your head in the day of battell who made you a reall terrour to the enemies of his Son Iesus in this Nation and did by the good hand of his providence bring you among us when his enemies were very high and turbulent by your courage and faithfulness to calme and bring them under who also drew out your heart to so signall a proofe of your reall desire to serve Iesus Christ every way in being an Instrument to procure the three yeares Commission for propagating the Gospell in these foure Northerne Counties These things we mention as that which hath laid engagements upon our hearts towards you Oh that you may yet go on and prosper and do more worthily for God and his people that your enemies may be found lyars that after your many trials God may cleare up your integrity that you may be as the light of the morning 2 Sam. 23.4 Sir we have this only to beg of you look wholly to God in all and walke humbly and close with him and learne that of the Apostle he is only approved whom God approveth thus will you engage the Saints more and more and us to be Yours in the service of the Gospell Tho. Weld Sam. Hamond Tho. Trurin Wil. Durant To all that professe the name of the Lord Iesus THe Apostle speaking of the last daies cals them perilous times or as the word is difficult times not so much upon the account of persecution as the formality and hypocrisie of many that shall then professe the Gospell and as in other prophesies the fullest opening of the book is the event of providences made out to Saints by the Spirit of God so in this the sad influences that the hypocrisie and formality of Professours hath had upon the Saints in these last daies make us to understand where the perill and difficulty lies and the reason why the Apostle should make it matter of prophecy and of imminent danger and difficulty to the Saints who shall converse among them how soon was Peter that great Apostle leavened with hypocrisie and Barnabas also carried away with that dissimulation Gal. 2.12 13. though men otherwise full of the Holy Ghost And have not we ground to thinke that the sleeping of the foolish virgins will be no small temptation to the wise to slumber also as Christ hath prophesied in that Parable Mat 25. How hard is it to touch pitch and not be defiled Oh that the danger of this so clearely held out by Christ and his Apostles might leave a more powerfull impression upon the hearts of the Saints to be very circumspect where they are necessitated to have their conversation among the deceitfull spirits of these times we meane men having the forme of godlinesse but not the power of it whoever of you are observers of your own hearts surely you have sometimes found with what insinuating power the miscarriages of some eminent professors have crept into your hearts and led you away into divers foolish lusts Can you look back upon your walkings for these ten yeares past without regret of soule to review the many secret apostasies of your hearts from Christ Doth not so many of your unholy walkings as you may find in the searchings of your soules put you upon more thorow and strict examination whether this root of bitternesse do not spring up and trouble you It would stagger a man to consider what an aptnesse there is in many professors most sinfully to comply with if not fully to act the degenerate miscarriages of this present evill world should holy Baynes or Rogers or Greenham arise from the dead and take a view of some of the now-professors of England who pretend to far clearer discoveries of the Gospell than they lived under would not they blesse the Lord that their portion was not cast to live in those wicked daies should they see the loathsome fashions of many of you with powdered haire painted faces naked breasts and such phantastick garbes that yet would go for choice Saints and Christians would not they mourne in secret over these abominations and cry out oh the hypocrisie and deceitfulnesse of your spirits and tell you your light is darknesse and that you are those which do hold the truth of God in unrighteousnesse Hath not Satan hence taken his ground to oppose the truths of Christ and to speake evill of the good waies of God Doth not the Quakers naturall conscience for that is his light and Christ within him put him upon laying aside the ordinances and divers other principles of the Gospell because he sees so many of you living so much in pride and lusts of the flesh and walking according to the vanity of your minds yet pleading for them under a pretence of Gospell-liberty Doth not the Arminian make that one of his great Arguments for the Apostacy of the Saints because so many of you pretending to be such grow so loose and vaine at last and after you have pretended by the knowledge of Christ to have escaped the pollutions of the world are again intangled therein and overcome 2 Pet. 2.20 may he not be hardened by this generation in his opinion if that no specificall difference betwixt temporary and saving grace because many under the bare authority of restraining grace come up to as high conformity to the Gospell as you do who yet would be taken as the great professors of it Do not you observe how many alledging to be scandalized by your walkings are turned to