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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12386	The sinners confession by Henrie Smith.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1593 (1593)	STC 22700.5; ESTC S2886	13,055	32

the wicked Iewes Actes 13. 50. that woulde neither beleeue the doctrine which Paul preached nor could abide that the Gentiles should be brought to the faith of Christ. The high Priests thought them selues too high to haue poore humble Christ amongst them the Scribes and the Pharesies in their owne conceipt were too good too wise and too holie to receyue him into their companie and not content to sequester and estrange themselues from Christ they disdained also that hee should be conuersant with Publicans and sinners as though he were not worthie to be conuersant amongst men If it were the office of Christ to conuert sinners why should the Pharesies bee offended at him if he were sometime conuersant with sinners to work their conuersion If Christ were a Phisition to cure the sickenes of the soule that is to saue the people from their sinnes why should the Pharesies murmur at him for keeping company with Zaccheus that was sicke in soule for as it is expedient for the Phisition to visite hys patients for their better recouerie so it was conuenient Christ should visite sinners for their speedier conuersion But as the Phisition that resorteth to sicke persons is not straightway infected so the soules Phisition that conuerseth with sinners is not therby polluted And therefore as Christ perfourmed his office though the Pharesies murmured so let the ministers of GOD learne by his example to performe theyr dueties though the wicked be offended It was the office of Christ to call sinners to repentance yea he came to call Pharesie sinners aswell as Publican sinners if the Pharesies would haue confessed themselues to be sinners as the Publicanes did but because they stood so much vpon their owne righteousnesse and despised others therefore Christ denounceth so manie woes against them and preferreth the penitent Publican that trusted in the Lords mercie before the proud Pharesie that trusted in his owne merites Though Paul was a Pharesie and the sonne of a Pharesie yet he shameth not to confesse himselfe one of the chiefe sinners which Christ came to saue So if the Pharesies that murmured at Zaccheus would haue been saued they shuld haue confessed themselues chiefe sinners as Paul did They should not haue accused Christ for keeping company with sinners but they shuld haue accused themselues for not keeping companie with Christ. The iust man saith Salomon Pro. 18. is the first accuser of himselfe but the Pharesies are so far from accusing of themselues that they begin to accuse Zaccheus and Christ together Thus the Pharesies of our time that make religion a cloake to couer their corrupt dealing haue thys propertie to thinke other men to be hainous sinners and themselues onely to be righteous insomuch as they wil not stick to speake like that proud people that was wont to say Depart from me for I am holier than thou and like that presumptuous pharesie Luc. 18. I. thanke God I am not as others are extortioners vsurers adulterers drunkards or such like I sanctifie the Saboth which other men prophane I frequent sermons which they neglect I reuerence the name of God which they blaspheme I pay tythe which others with-holde and I fast oftentimes which they doo seldome or neuer These were the speaches of the Pharesies that liued in the time of Christ whom he so often calleth hypocrites and these are the speaches of the hypocrits of our age that seeme to liue after the straightest sect of our religion Act. 26. They wash the outside of the cup and of the platter that is they iustifie themselues and seeme meruailous holie in the sight of men which can discerne by the outward appearance onely but vnto God that seeth and searcheth the secretes of the harts and reynes they appeare like paynted tombes full of dead mens bones and all filthines that is they haue their inward parts full of rauening and all kinde of wickednes Wherefore as Christ said to his Disciples Except your righteousnes exceed the righteousnes of the Scribes Pharesies you cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen so I say vnto you that except your righteousnes exceede the righteousnes of these Pharisaicall hypocrites ye cannot be saued These holy Pharises did vse to cal the Publicans not vsurers nor extortioners as they themselues were but by the general name of sinners as thogh they themselues were free from sinne Thus the papists at this day do vse to cal the most sincere professours of the Gospell not Lutherans Caluinists Zuinglians or protestants as they wer wont to call them but now they tearme vs heretiques a name more odious than anie other whereas in the meane season they themselues are of all other the great heretiques So the Atheists of our time when they cannot accuse the godlie that are amongst vs of vsurie or briberie or extortion or drunkennes or anie such notorious sinne they call them hypocrites which is the summe of all when as in verie truth they themselues do best deserue that name but it makes no matter what they cal vs neither are we to be moued at their despiteful speaches for as the bitter taunts of these murmuring pharises could not hinder Zaccheus in his conuersion so the slaunders of these godles men must not discourage the seruaunts of God from their good profession The Pharises did Zaccheus great wrong for calling him sinner when he had repented of his sinne and the Atheists at this day do greatly wrong the true professors in calling them hypocrites which haue truely repented of their former sinnes and endeuor by al good means to lead a godly life Therfore as Zaccheus preferred his soules health before al their murmuring so it behooueth vs to looke to our soules saluation notwithstanding al the reproches and slanders that are deuised against vs. And as the Pharises might call Zaccheus sinner but could not hinder his Conuersion so the malicious worldlings may take awaye our goods our good names yea and our liues also but cannot depriue vs of our saluation Wherefore as our Sauior said to his Apostles Feare not them that can kill the bodie and then can doo no more so I say vnto you Feare not the frownes of the wicked for they are not able to hurt your better part seeke not to gaine the fauor of the world for the whole world is not able to saue a soule but feare to offend him that is able to destroy both bodie and soule in hell and seeke to please him that is able to saue them both in heauen for euer Now followeth another frute of Zaccheus conuersion namely his good confession for as he beleeued with the hart vnto righteousnes so hee confessed with the mouth vnto saluation Whē Zaccheus was mocked of the Pharises it seemeth that hee should stoup downe for shame but when hee was thus reproued reuiled by them the scripture saith that he stood vp in signe of gladnes As the Apostles went away reioycing