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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56674	The hypocritical nation described in a sermon preached at St. Maries in Cambridge, upon a day of publick fasting : with an epistle prefixed by Mr. Samuel Jacombe.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.; Jacombe, Samuel, d. 1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing P815; ESTC R2023	38,656	56

THE Hypocritical Nation DESCRIBED IN A SERMON PREACHED At St. Maries in Cambridge upon a day of Publick FASTING With an Epistle prefixed by Mr Samuel Jacombe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Chrysost Orat. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Because of unrighteous dealings injuries and riches got by deceit the Kingdome is translated from one people to another Ecclesiast 10.8 London Printed for Adoniram Byfield at the Bible in Popes-head Alley neer Lumbardstreet 1657. READER IT is well known that an Hypocrite is an Artificial peice a meer Cheat a Stage-Player every thing almost but what he seems to be who makes Religion serve some private end or thrust himself into the company of Professors as the hunted Deer doth into the midst of the herd because he hopes for some outward safety but the knife that glisters well is quickly found to be what it is all lead by cutting something hard with it for it bends every way Follow him to his Family observe him in his dealings with men in acts of Justice mind him in his sobriety and though hee may bee quick and nimble yet hee leaves his sent behind him and his own Conscience will one day pursue him by it I Question not but an ordinary dissembler knows himself to bee so there is one company of Hypocrites that are lesse apt to suspect themselves because great zealots for some peices of Gods service whereby they think they make God amends for the neglect of others but alas one string out of tune spoils the Musick one vain opened will let out all the bloud in the body one little hole will let in water enough to drown the Ship This Notion is excellently discussed in this Sermon as also the absolute necessity of observing all the duties we owe to our Neighbours if wee will avoid the charge of Hypocrisy both which with many other things being of excellent use for the present canting talking but not doing Christians I thought my friend served the interest of piety by publishing this discourse the judicious reader I am confident will finde the Author much a Schollar much a Christian in it all that know him have testimony of both in his converse I am one who have reason to blesse God for his good example and for this Sermon which with advantage I heard in the University That it may be a blessing to thee also shall bee the Prayer of Thy Servant for Jesus sake Sam. Jacombe Lumbardstreet London 1657. TO The Authors best Beloved and Honoured Friend Mr. Thomas Hunt SIr I hope the Author of this discourse will have no reason to bee angry that I have exposed his papers to publick view but if hee should chance to bee arrested with any sudden passion I doubt not but hee will bee instantly calmed when hee meets with your name at the entrance which I know to bee so pleasing unto him that hee cannot think of it without a smile and a smooth forehead It is a general good that I aim at in sending them abroad many things of great concernment being in my poor judgement treated of in them but yet I am sure the Author will bee glad that I have made them also serve a particular end and give testimony by this short dedication of the singular and dear affection which hee bears to you I will not go about to divine what entertainment they will meet withall among men but I can more than guess how you will embrace and kiss the off-spring of a minde that could not bring forth any thing into the world without exposing as a twin together with it its great love to you and how welcome any thing that designs to advance pure religion and undefiled will bee to your soul For I have observed such a strange compliance between you and him that it hath made mee sometimes think it was great pitty you did not both suck the same breasts or rather lie together and embrace in the same womb that there might not have been that little thing wanting to have made you twin-Brethren or I am ready to entertain the Jewish fancy though upon a different ground that souls come into being by pairs and that you are one of those happy couples by whom a more masculine and generous love than that which they make to bee the effect of such an union is revived and commended to those who are of your familiarity And how great an affection I have likewise discerned in you to the holy truths of our Lord Jesus I will not say knowing that modesty humility and self-denyal are among those that you judge the greatest devotion to bee due unto I cannot tell whether any thing in the discourse is through carelesness and non-attendancy short of or contrary unto the Authors sense or whether hee might finde reason to correct any thing upon a second review but I am certain there is nothing here said to you which hee would make any alteration in or finde any fault with unlesse it bee that I have not writ enough of his love and your merit As for my self it is no matter who I am Though I give you but half of my name yet I am wholly yours as much as hee can bee and none knows so well as hee how much I honour you Ric. Patius March 25. 1657. THE Hypocritical Nation described ZACH. 7.5 When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month even those seventy years did you at all fast unto mee even to mee THese words are part of the answer which the Prophet gives to a question that the people returned out of captivity had by their messengers proposed to the Priests and as it should seem in case they could not resolve them to the Prophet concerning which wee read in the third verse of this Chapter For the better understanding both the Question and the Answer wee must observe that after the destruction of Jerusalem and their being carried captive by the King of Babylon they appointed certain fasts to bee kept at some set times of the year which were sad commemorations of that ruine which by degrees God had brought upon them In the Law of Moses wee read but of one Fast that I remember commanded by God to this people which was in the same month with one of these viz. the tenth day of the seventh month and it is mentioned Levit. 16.29.31 Levit. 23.27 c. The neglect or rather hypocritical observance of which Sabbath or day of rest for so there it is called is reproved very sharply in the 58. of Isa through the whole chapter where by Sabbath vers 13. is to bee understood this fasting day on the tenth of the seventh month and not the seventh day of the week But as there were many occasional Fasts appointed as is clear in the history of the Bible by the supream magistrate so upon the carrying of the Nation captive their Rulers it is most like did appoint four Fasts to be observed every year which are mentioned