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spirit_n	body_n	day_n	soul_n	6,326	5	5.0635	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91815	A sermon preached in Christ's-church, Dublin, on the 23d of October, 1695 being the anniversary thanksgiving for putting an end to the Irish Rebellion, which broke out on that day, 1641 : before the House of Lords / by Henry Lord Bishop of Killaloo.	Rider, Henry, d. 1696.	1695 (1695)	Wing R1441; ESTC R15253	11,158	20

the Garb of an Angel of Light one who hath much the colour but little of the substance a great deal of the form but scarce any thing of the power of Godliness one whose best side is always outward who makes it his business to be thought Religious who labours not so much to be really good as to appear unto Men to be so And now to draw up the Curtain and bring him upon the Stage First Let us take a View of him at his Devotions He enters into the place of publick Worship with a solemn set Face He perhaps prostrates himself on the ground zealously lifts up his hands and eyes towards Heaven flashes and disciplines himself after the manner of Baal's Priests cries aloud smites upon his Brest and makes a Profession of confessing his Sins with an humble penitent and obedient heart By the shew he makes any Man would imagine That he was above the trifling Things of this lower World that his Soul was upon the Wing and full of heavenly Meditations and that he was talking with his God as familiarly as ever Moses did even as a Man speaketh to his Friend and yet all this while he is but acting a Part mimicking the Saint and giving a lively Representation of an extraordinary Pious and Religious Man For he is Proud Impenitent and Disobedient God is not in so much as one of all his Thoughts he draws nigh unto him only with his Lips and thinks of every thing more than of Him he then only pretends to Worship and perhaps in his whole Life never made a hearty Prayer nor sent up one sincere Petition to the God and Father of all things But to shift the Scene sometimes you may see the Hypocrite in his Penitential Dress in a hair Shirt in the habit of a Pilgrim or in Sackcloath and Ashes At other times you may observe him hanging down his Head like a Bulrush sowring and disfiguring his Face looking indeed like a Man that did afflict his Soul mortifie his Members and bring them into subjection to the Spirit And yet these external Severities are rarely attended with any inward Devotion of his Heart all the while he keeps his Body Low Thin and Meager he feeds his Old Sins he pampers and every Day recruits his Inclinations to new Transgressions in the midst of all his abstinence his Soul has its secret Revels and Frolicks in Sin he drinks Iniquity like Water and acts all Uncleanness with Greediness And as his Fasting is only acted so are his deeds of Charity When he bestows his Alms it is with all the outward Pomp and Solemnity that may be in the Streets or in Places of the greatest Resort and Concourse He proclaims the time of his Benevolence to morrow I will give He sounds a Trumpet before his good Dees ratling his Mony into the poor Man's Box and reaches out his hand with such a sad Countenance with such an Air of Goodness and Compassion as if he indeed felt their Wants was their Brother and Companion in Tribulation and bore a part in all their Sufferings and Necessities and yet the kindness is only designed to himself and were it not to gratifie his vain glorious Humour to get the Reputation of being pitiful and tender Hearted Were all his Charitable Acts to be secret and the World not to know what either his right or his left Hand did they would be confin'd to a narrow compass even end where they begin at home and he would part with that Trash his Money as if it was indeed what the Rabbins call it in their Language his dearest Blood If we look into the Hypocrit's Behaviour in all other Cases you never find them without their little Shifts and Devices to secure their Credit without some specious pretences to palliate the blackest of their Crimes I might instance in several particulars but shall only name some few relating to that Barbarous Rebellion in this Kingdom and here the Popish Party tell us they took up Arms in Defence of his Majesty's Person and Royal Prerogative whereas in deed those great Pretenders to Loyalty rais'd Armies coyn'd Money granted Letters of Reprisal sent Ambassadors to foreign Princes invaded and rifled all the choicest and most valuable Jewels of the Crown It was say they A Just and Holy War for the Liberty of their Consciences and the freedom of that which they call their Faith and Religion and yet at that very time they enjoy'd such a licentious freedom of all their Superstitions that if one of their own holy Fathers may be credited the Frogs in the second Plague of Egypt were not more numerous than the Priests and Fryers that then swarm'd within the precincts of this one City but it has never been thought any Reflection either on the Piety or Charity of the good Catholicks to shelter their Pride and Ambition their Malice and Revenge under the colour of Religion to counterfeit Christ's Commission to put his Cross into their Banners and to express their Zeal for the Lord and his House in the Blaze and Flames of their Neighbours But then alass The Protestants were the first Aggressors and the Papists not daring to stay at home Assembled together purely for the safety of their Lives and their mutual preservation and therefore admire that they should be call'd Rebels who were only a few discontented Gentlemen apprehensive of a general Massacre and could not but make some little defence for themselves and civilly oppose them who first blew the Trumpet and were ready for the Battle It would be endless to enumerate all the Pretences they made use of for the advancing of their Cause the frequent professions of their kindness and affection to their English Neighbours the deceitful Kisses and treacherous Embraces they gave them the Crocodiles Tears they shed over them till they had got their Goods and Arms into their Power the Obliging Distinction they made for some days between the British Inhabitants till they had Complemented and Wheedled the Scotch too into the Snare the breach of all their Articles the Perfidious Violation of the most Sacred Oaths and Promises and the many other little Arts and Pious Frauds their Holy Church at that time especially Legitimated to Decoy the credulous Protestants into their Nets till they were miserably betray'd and basely Butcher'd by those they Trusted upon the insignificant Pledges of their Word and Honour Thus if you follow the Hypocrite thro' all the other parts of his Life the best thing you can say of him is that he is a good Actor he treads the Stage handsomly he pronounces his Words with a Grace and speaks his Part admirably well he has the Garb the Gesture and Countenance of a very honest Man of an Israelite indeed in whom is no Guile he looks like the Tombs and Monuments of the Dead which are set off with a great deal of Cost and Charge appear Beautiful and make a goodly Shew but within are full of dead Mens