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A94758	The hypocrite discovered and cured. The definition the kindes the subject the symptoms of hypocrisie. The prognosticks the causes the cure of hypocrisie. A discourse furnished vvith much variety of experimentall and historicall observations, and most seasonable for these times of happy designe for reformation. In two bookes. / By Samuell Torshell. With an epistle to the Assembly of Divines, about the discerning of spirits. Ordered, Novemb. 24, 1643. that this booke be printed, for Iohn Bellamie. Iohn White. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamie.	Torshell, Samuel, 1604-1650.	1644 (1644)	Wing T1938; Thomason E80_11	165,295	186

doe thinke that that Battologie which Christ condemnes in the Hypocrites was not meant as our Translation seemes to interpret it of volublenesse of tongue Vse not vaine repetitions but of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or drawing out of the Words in length which was called Battologia of one Battus who had an impediment in his speech But whether we admit of that sense or no we find the thing it self to be true that oft times a Tone is affected to carry on the liking of the hearers But J was much taken with he wit and fine spirit of a godly Gentle-woman and zealously affected in Religion who when her Chaplain returning from London where he had never been before began to use and take up a whining fashion of speaking she presently admonished him To live like a good man but to speake like a man I may adde to this also the loud speaking affected by some to win credit among the ignorant who judge by the sound J know the Prophet is bid to lift up his voyce like a Trumpet and the zeale of doing good will command a mans utmost strength Melch. Adam in vita Farelli as Farellus the first builder in the Church of Geneva when some Monkes made a noyse and rung the Bells out to hinder the people from hearing him preach He contended with the Bells and sent out so shrill a voice as over-mastred the noise both of the Bells and their clamour Yet I say some are as they say of the Nightingal nothing but voyce and make use of that to beguile where their matter is not powerfull to perswade As for that Farellus whom I named though I see no reason to doubt of his sincerity Lib 4 Epist Oecolam yet J observe that Oecolampadius that godly and grave Divine thought fit to admonish him of his vehement loudnesse Such here saith he as favour both thee and the Gospell feare least thou attempt something unfit through the heat of thy zeale of which J admonished thee sufficiently before thou wentest from hence that by how much thou art more propense to violence so much the more thou shouldest endeavour to be calme and tame thy Lion-like spirit with Dove-like modesty And in another letter more plainly I enquired of N concerning thee He when he had commended thy industry and zeale added that thou dost raile mightily at the Masse-priests I know what they deserve and how they are to be painted out yet with your good leave let me speake to you as a friend and a brother you seeme to forget your office which is to preach not to raile c. But whatsoever may be judged of Farell of whom as I said I cannot but thinke honourably we have a pertinent example of this in our Harding Bishop Jewells Adversary who in the Reformation was it seemes a Thundring Preacher when he wish'd he could cry out against Popery as loud as the bell of Osney yet we know what he was and how bitter an enemy to the truth he proved The Reader may be furnished with more instances of this Vaine-glory in other kinds out of that Character of an hypocrite Hypocrisie is painted vertue written by Dr Hall some of whose words I will here insert He turns into the great Church and salutes one of the pillars on one knee worshipping that God which at home he cares not for He sits at the Church where he may be best seene and puls out his Tables in hast as if he feared to loose the note when he writes either nothing or his errand He turnes his Bible with noyse c. In conclusion he cals the Hypocrite aptly The Strangers Saint And so indeed he is which is the difference betweene him and the true believer who is Gods Saint as it is in the Apostle 2 Thes 1.10 When he shall come to be glorified in His Saints and admired in them that beleeve The sincere people of God are his Saints they are holy in his eye But these men are all for men and doe all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be seene of men and that they may appeare Mat. 6.1 They are on the Stage and doe all Theatrico more that they may have have a Plaudite Honour me now 1 Sam. 15.30 I pray thee saith Saul before the Elders of my people and before Israel and turne againe with me that I may worship the Lord thy God That I may be counted allso thy Masters servant Sure that was his very reason and he had learnt true Macchiavellisme many hundred yeares before Nic. Macchiavel was borne That it was safe and best for a Prince to seeme pious These are the men that will doe nothing sine teste they will have some witnesse of every devotion so farre are they from that which the Apostle required of the Philippians Phil. 2.12 to obey not only in his presence but much more in his absence Vaine-glory is it that rules over them if there be any excellency it must be knowne and if they want they will rather paint then not be seene It was otherwise with Moses he when his face shone tooke a veile and covered it but these if there be any thing that shines in them any parts any gifts off goes the Vaile they will not endure to be hid to have their parts obscured but get up into the P●lpit or stand up upon the Book-sellers-stall or any thing rather then not be seene And rather then not to have somewhat to shew when they want beauty they will paint and dresse themselves as Jezabel did and shew themselves at the window And indeed this open window is all with them for I cannot believe that any painted Jezabel can take any content to stand long alone at her Glasse for she knows she is painted and the painting is not for her owne but others eyes All the felicity of an hypocrite is that he is the gaze of others eyes Hist Magdeb. Centur. 3. That he may be observed with Paul Samosatenus Bishop of Antioch even in the Market-place to reade dictate and make dispatches Whence is it else that I may yet give one other instance that some who have no spirit no invention no words for private secret prayer can yet before company powre forth petitions with much variety enforce them with much earnestnesse with apt and many words and continue long unwearied and unspent Or that others who are weary of their Glasse and can keepe no company with their owne hearts in any subject of meditation but loose themselves and their thoughts presently can yet before others dilate upon that subject with much varietie of expression But truly these are all but Pedlars of vertue that are thus for the shew We may walke in some streets of London where are the Ware-houses of great Merchants or the Shops of whole-sale-men and all is made up we can see nothing hang out But Hypocrites are like Pedlars in a Countrey-fare that have not a glasse nor

macerate and afflict their bodies with scourgings and other cruelties that they exercise upon themselves Alas there may be much severity and yet no mortification Divers of the Pharisees proud and hypocriticall men though they were Vid. Mont. Appa● v●● s 17. wore thornes in the hemme of their garments to pricke and draw blood of their bare heeles as they walked to remember them of the Law which yet in their hearts they regarded not But in the Church of Rome setting aside some frantickly superstitious persons for the most part they practise but a mock-pennance Nic. Caus Holy Court To. 3. max 9. and even in their very scourgings are neate and curious so that a French Jesuite of great note tels us That some had their very Haire-cloathes and Disciplines made of silver rather to see the bright lustre of it then to feele the smart And I have read of some Popish Ladies as costly about their whips as their fannes the handles of their scourges or disciplines being enchased with gold and set with pearle CHAP. XX. The sixth Symptome continued The tenth head The Deceits of Zeale 10. The deceits of zeale I Have reserved to the last place the consideration of counterfeit zeale because I have here many men to deale with and many cases The most beautifull have most suitors Zeale is a flourishing grace of a fresh and lively complexion the pure and cleare flame of that fire which is kindled by the spirit Many therfore pretend to this and would be counted and would be called zealous ones especially when zeale in Religion is growne into credit again when it comes to be the fashion that most men weare when it is for a mans reputation to be a forward Professour as now God be thanked it is For fashions they have their vicissitudes their ebbs and their returnes againe Old fashions laid a side come sometimes in request again as this that we are now speaking of About an 100 yeares agoe the profession of Religion according to Gods pure word was in such request that it was a fashion and they exprest it in the fashion of their cloaths the Princes and Noble-men and Gentle-men in some parts of Germany caused these five Letters V. D. M. I. Ae. the first letters of these words Joh. Wolf lect memor To. 2. ad An. 1549. VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM The Word of the Lord endureth for ever to be wrought or imbroydered or set in plate upon their Cloakes or upon the sleeves of their Garments to shew to all the world that forsaking Popish and humane Traditions they were Professours of the pure word of God 2 Kin. 10.16 It is growne to that passe now men say Come and see my zeale for the Lord But here 's the danger when the waters are out the streame carries all with it Hypocrites will swimme downe the strong tide And as then many that wore those letters upon their Coats did not receive the power of the Word into their hearts so all that now vote for Religion are not religious but as empty Carts run apace much faster then the laden ones and keepe a great ratling upon the stones so doe these counterfeits make the greatest clamour for that which in truth their hearts least care for To descend unto particulars 1. Some have a pretended false complying zeale They are zealous in what they know will be well liked They prevent Reformation by authority where they know Authority will approve the fact So some have taken down Crucifixes removed Altars and the like not it may be out of a spirit of any great dislike but to manifest their forwardnesse in that which they know or probably gather to be in designe and project Whereas right and genuine zeale contends with difficulties and though it dare doe nothing in opposition to Authority Rom. 13.1 to which it knowes the Scripture hath subjected every soule yet it will doe that which is a necessary duty MS Addit to Goodw. Catal by Sir Io. Harr. in Grindals life though it meet with frownes Of which true Zeale Arch-bishop Grindall gave an evident testimony who when an Italian Physitian bearing himselfe upon the countenance of a great Lord at Court though he had a wife living married another Gentle-woman he would not winke at so publick a scandall but convented and proceeded against him by Ecclesiasticall censures for then it was not made felony as it hath since beene by King James This great Lord presently writes to the Arch-bishop to stay the proceedings to tolerate to dispence or to mitigate the censure When he could not prevaile Queene Elizabeth was procured to write in the Doctors behalfe but the Bishop not only persisted like St John Baptist in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is not lawfull to have her to wife but also in reverent manner required of the Queene an account of her faith in that she would write in a matter expressely against the word of God Here was zeale encountring with danger for maintainance of truth He was hereupon commanded to keep his house and lay under disgrace through the power of a malevolent party till his death 2. Again Many are zealous in the Religion maintained whereas if the streame should turne and runne the other way God knows how they would keepe their breath against tide T' is no tryall of a mans sincerity to cry out against Papists An. Sax Mon. Preface Sect. 3. when a Parliament is vigilant and severe in setting Lawes on foot against them I shall ever honour the memory of that learned Gentleman one of our best Saxon Antiquaries Mr Lisle who publishing some Saxon Monuments against Popery some yeares since when t' was thought by many that the face of things look'd towards Rome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Theodor Hist l. 2. c. 29. Non nisi in volucris obtectam proferebat mentem suam Noster Christophersonus vertit suam ex occulto promit impietatem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel ut Christophers Scalig. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vel ut Christophers emendat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sozom bist l. 2. c. 28. Hist eccles cent 16. l. 3. c. 28. professed that he did the rather then shew his zeale of the truth and make knowne to the world what profession he was of partly because the Papists hoped and looked for a day and partly because he saw so many so covert and bearing themselves so warily as if they would be still ready for a change For this is indeed the right guise of hypocrites in uncertain times to walk without discovering themselves how they encline and to deliver themselves in generall and ambiguous termes which may admit a faire sence either way to serve their turnes accordingly as things may fall out which was the Councell which Eudoxius Bishop of Constantinople a notable hypocrite a close heretick gave to Eunonius another Bishop of the same stampe That he would hide his opinion and not

of the Protestants Religion Melch. Adam Decad in vita Bezae That he would keepe upon the shore and not lanch too farre out into the deepe but so that if a storme should rise he might soone get to land againe A lesson which Balduin a man in great esteeme among the French but a very Ecebolus in Religion taught him But let me cleare this point a little further before I leave it Hypocrits may be sufferers I doe not take suffering in the cause to be alwaies an undoubted testimony of sincerity to it For to make this discovery yet fuller an hypocrite may be a sufferer I meane when vain-glory and popular favour doth sustaine him for then though he endure heavy censures and those censures cruelly executed yet he is all this while the conquerour and rides in the head of the Troopes of his admirers and applauders though it be on a scaffold or a gibbet or at a stake This is St Augustines observation Doe yee thinke saith he there may not be some that would suffer only for the praise of men If there were not such kind of men the Apostle would not have said Though I give my body to be burned and have not charity I am nothing There may be some therefore that may doe this rather through boasting then out of love Aug. in Psa 44.22 The Ecclesiasticall Histories doe plentifully confirme this observation where we find many Hereticks as well as true Catholicks suffering even unto bloud And to fit it somewhat neare with some instances in our owne age what can we even in the largest charity conceive of him whose sufferings are related fully by the authour of the Breviat set forth by W. Huntley pag. 161 162. Breviat of Prelates usurpat 3. Edit whom yet we knew afterwards by another name in Cheshiere and some other parts to be full of rage and madnesse against all that he knew or could discover to be godly and best affected And I am sure some will passe the like judgement upon another of those instances recorded by the same authour pag. 163. I will shut up this point Vicit amor patriae laudisque immensa cupid● with the words of a learned Divine some through heat of bloud or greatnesse of spirit adventurous or otherwise prodigall of life for purchase of same can with joy imbrace such dangers in Christs cause as would much daunt many good professours In perswasions of zeale hence grounded they might perhaps dye in battell against the Infidels or in the Romish Inquisition and yet do no more for the Saviour of their soules then they would for a strumpet or some consort of bodily lust or then malefactors have done one for another And it is a miserable kind of Martyrdome to sacrifice a stout body to a stubborne mind So then that saying which hath gone current through all Antiquity That it is not the suffering but the cause which makes a Martyr will hold good still and justifie our observation that some sufferers may be no Martyrs But this was taken notice of only by the way Hypocrites wil not venture their vvhole stocke but the symptome that we were now looking upon was that ordinarily the hypocrite will not venture his whole-stocke upon Gods cause and which I also adde he is loath to be at any cost in Gods service or to loose any thing by his profession Ruth 1. Orpah takes her leave of Naomi when she hath no further hope of preferment by her Ananias and Saphira will be sure to provide for themselves Act. 5. though they give up their names to the Community Amos 8.5 The people that Amos complains of are observers of the Sabbath but they grudge at the losse of so much time and gaine Isa 58.3 Nay another Prophet tels us of a people that sanctifie a Fast and yet keepe their poore labourers hard to their taske All these are unwilling to follow Christ when they must part with their comforts with their ease with their estate They could be content to live by the truth but cannot endure the truth should live upon them If it come to that that the Gospell will not mtintaine them but they it and that they must loose a good trade good customers good friends great mens favours c. farewell so unthriving so unprofitable a profession So farre are these from sincere Davids mind who resolved he would not serve God but it should cost him somewhat But these want love for if they had love love would be bountifull and make them willing to part with any thing Joh. 12.5 6. Judas was an hypocrite and thought all was waste that was bestowed upon Christ But in the Prophet Micah we find hypocrites to be liberall and to offer largely they thinke not great things too much burnt offerings calves of a yeare old thousands of Ramms ten thousand rivers of oyl yea the first-born the fruit of the body But I answer it may be if they had bin taken at their word they would not have bin so good as their promise or if they were in earnest t' was but such earnest as a Merchant is in when he casts his goods over-board for feare of drowning and so I grant an Hypocrite may doe much under some present terrour but consider him ordinarily and you shall find him to have set up this resolution in Religion to be neither a Sufferer nor a looser CHAP. XIII 4. Symptomes of Hypocrisie in respect of Duties Partiality in Duties THe Symptome that I here consider is this Hypocrites partiall in Duties that whereas we find hypocrites performing many duties they have not a faire ecuall and sincere respect to every duty but make their choice Saul will sacrifice but not obey And the Pharisees were such men Luk. 11.42 Exo. 32 15 16. The Tables were writtē on both thei●sides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on the one side on the other as the LXX hinc binc were they written the Tables were the worke of God and the writing was the writing of God Vid. Guid. Pancirol de reb memor l. 1. ch de Char. liter Henr. Salmuth not ad Opisthographos See M Stock Com. on Mal. 3.5 L Ve●ulam Medi● Sacrae ● 7. as we perceive by that speech of our Saviour Woe unto you Pharisees fir yee tith mint and rue and all manner of hearbes and passe over judgement and the love of God these ought yee to have done and not to leave the other undone Here was somewhat performed that was a duty but a passing over of others like a husband-man that plucks a side his plow and makes a balke when he comes to an hard and stiffe peece of ground somewhat done that ought to be done but other things as necessary left undone Such men serve not Gods will but their owne choice They make a difference of the Tables as if only one side were of Gods writing as if both had not