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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04074	A sermon against selfe policy preached at White-Hall in Lent. By Isaac Bargrave ...	Bargrave, Isaac, 1586-1643.	1624 (1624)	STC 1413; ESTC S124187	12,801	44

cummin but omitted Iudgement mercy and faith the weightier matters of the Law vers 23. In a word this Vine bare leaues and flowers enough but no fruite no grapes it was an empty Vine And I would this Prophecy had ended onely in Israel but this is seconded with another of Saint Paul that falls neere our times In the last perillous dayes men shall bee louers of themselues hauing a ●●rme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2. Tim. 3. VVhy here 's a true empty Vine the shaddow of a Christian the pure Hypocrite of our Church Moses Chayre long prayers the tything of mint and cummin all forme but no power of godlinesse all leaues no fruite all faith no workes all profession no demonstration Saint Basil in his time found out the progenitors of these Bastard plants Vidi ego orantes iejunantes praeteritorum paenitentia suspirantes omne denique fine sumptu pietatem ostendentes egentibus vero ne obolum quidem praebentes Our times will well Translate him Wee may see many among vs men demure in their lookes thinne in their apparell long in their prayers deepe in their sighes most deuout in all cheape duties of a Christian but in the VVorkes of Charity to bee deuout in them it is meere Popery CHRIST himselfe may hunger but the Fig Tree will yeelde no Figges Those little ones of Christ the poore may thirst but this Vine giues no Grapes it is an emptie Vine The Church is a Theater vppon which some act their owne parts being alwayes the same that they seeme and these are all good men but bad Actors Others on the contrary do meerely personate seeming perpetually what they are not and these are all bad m●n but good Actors notorious Hypocrites like Monkies who imitate humane actions but remayne Monkies still Like complementall Courtiers all curtesie in promise no honesty in performance They haue the voyce of Jacob and the hands of Esau Like the Apples of Sodom they are fayre to the sight but if you touch them they turne to fume and ashes They are such eminent Histrionicall Mimickes that in Greeke all Stage-Players are called by their names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hypocrites They forme a Plato●call kinde of Diuinity an abstracted sanctity that diuides Faith from Charity In a word they are nothing else but a meere paradoxe in our Church and Common-wealth Vir non vir arbor no● arbor A Vine and no Vine a Christian and no Christian a meere emptie Vine And as their way so is their end their whole Course as when a Hungrie man Dreames and behold hee eates but when he awakes hee is faint and his soule is Empty Esay 29. 8. It is the Fruite that denominates the Tree thy Fayth makes thee a true Christian thy workes make thee knowne to bee a true Christian As in a Logician so in a Christian giue mee Demonstration thou must Demonstrate thy Fayth by thy VVorkes There was no Honey vsed in GODS Sacrifice Leuiticu● the 2. Chap. and the ●1 verse Sayth Theodoret because it was made of Leaues and Flowers onely and not of Fruite Herodotus tells vs that the gods went to chose their Trees Iupiter chose the Oke because it was strong Neptune the Cedar because it was long but Pallas the Vine because it was fruitfull When our GOD the GOD of all power and Wisedome calles Israel a Vine hee calls for fruite and if wee looke vpon the letter of the Text hee can but call and haue for see the next words this empty vine brings forth fruite VVhat an empty and yet a fruitfull Vine This will bee worth the examining sayth the Hebrew paraphrase Euery Riddle or Paradoxe consists of Contradictions and it is the rule of Contraries that Circa idem praedicantur they both belong to the same subiect empty or fruitfull here is the same Israel the same Hypocrite still There is two kinds of hypocrisie saith Nauarrus in words and in works Faith without workes and workes without faith hypocrisie is the ground of all Our Sauiour in the 23. of Matthew as hee found some all-sayers and no doers so others that would out-doe all faith This emptie Vine will bring forth fructum aceruatum as the Chalde beares it whole heapes of fruit This was and is the Iewes Tenet that they were able to fulfill the whole Law and so to worke out their owne saluation And to this end they spare no labour they compasse Sea and Land to make a Proselyte v. 15. they pinch at no cost they build the Tombes of the Prophets v. 29. with the Israelites in this Verse they build many Altars goodly Images They doe as much to seeme as others to be good Yet all this in the end proues nothing but a morning cloud and as the earely dew it goes away Ose 6. for all this fruit the Verse 4. Vine is but an emptie vine But doe these bastard-plants grow onely in Iury are there no such Iewes to be found among Christians Yes certainely there be those that can out-doe the Iewes do more than Gods law requires they can supererrogate as much as will saue other men as well as themselues As for their cost it is they that sumptuously garnish the sepulchres of the righteous Old Rome it selfe was neuer so glorious with rich shrines and Altars And for their labour t is they that compasse Sea and Land to make a Proselyte that sayle with the foure windes vltra Garamantas Indos Southward to call home Heretiques Westward to conuert Pagans and when they haue conuerted them they make them two-fold more the children of Hell than they themselues Matthew 23. 15. compassing the whole world they disgrace and scandall the Gospell of Christ throughout the whole world dum exigunt sumptus lucrosae egestatis aut simulatae pretium sanctitatis while vnder the veyle of religion they bring forth fruit to themselues The all-searching Spirit of GOD makes all good Christians see and know that all 's not gold that glisters that all this faire shew of workes is but to be seene of men Matt. 23. all but so many mists to delude the spirituall eyes of the people and to catch them as cobwebs catch flyes These painted sepulchres so faire without within are full of dead mens bones a generation of Serpents and vipers who make vse of the workes of Christ onely to betray the cause of Christ As the former are so nice in the poynt of Faith that they are afraid S. Iames comes too neere Popery so these so iealous in the poynt of workes that S. Paul himselfe hath runne the censure of being too much a Lutheran Workes without faith are dead workes saith Paul And faith without workes is a dead faith saith Iames. And the Heathen could teach vs that dead wine was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vnfit to be offered to the God of life Medium tenuêre beati Most happy is the temper of our Church who as in the rest so in this is medium Contradictionis