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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02551	The hypocrite Set forth in a sermon at the court; February, 28. 1629. Being the third Sunday in Lent. By Ios: Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1630 (1630)	STC 12677; ESTC S103697	19,353	86

TO MY EVER most worthily honour'd Lord the Earle of NORVVICH My most honoured LORD I Might not but tell the world that this Sermon which was mine in the Pulpit is Yours in the Presse your Lordships will which shall neuer bee other then a command to mee fetches it forth into the Light before the fellowes Let mee bee branded with the Title of it if I can thinke it worthy of the publike view in comparison of many acurate peeces of others which I see content themselues dayly to dye in the eare Howsoeuer if it may doe good I shall blesse your Lordship for helping to aduance my gaine Your noble and sincere true-heartednesse to your God your King your Countrey your friend is so well knowne that it can be no disparagement to your Lordship to patronize this Hypocrite whose very inscription might cast a blurr vpon some guilty reputation Goe on still most noble Lord to be a great Example of vertue and fidelity to an hollow and vntrusty Age You shall not want either the acclamations or Prayers of Your Lordships euer deuoted in all true duty and obseruance IOS Exon. THE HYPOCRITE 2. TIM 5. 3. Hauing a forme of Godlines but denying the power thereof IT is an vnperfect Clause you see but a perfect description of an Hypocrite and that an Hypocrite of our own times the last which are so much the worse by how much they partake more of the craft and diseases of age The Prophets were the Seers of the old Testament the Apostles were the Seers of the new those saw Christs day and reioyced these foresaw the reigne of Antichrist and complained These very times were as present to S. Paul as to vs our sense doth not see them so clearely as his reuelation I am with you in the spirit saith he to his absent Colossians reioycing and beholding your order he doth as good as say to vs I am with you in the Spirit lamenting and beholding your mis-demeanours By these diuine Opticks hee sees our formall piety reall wickednes both which make vp the compleate Hypocrisie in my Text Hauing a forme of Godlinesse but denying the power thereof I doubt not but some will bee ready to set this sacred Prognostication to another Meridian and indeed wee know a generation that loues themselues too well much more then peace and truth so couetous that they would catch all the world in S. Peters net proud boasters of their owne merits perfections supererogations it would bee long though easie to follow all we know where too many treasons are hatched wee know who in the height of minde exalts himselfe aboue all that is called God wee know where pleasure hath the most delicate and debauch'd Clients we know where Deuotion is professedly formall and liues impure and surely were wee clearely innocent of these crimes I should be the first that would cast this stone at Rome but now that wee share with them in these sins there is no reason wee should bee seioyned in the Censure Take it among yee therefore yee Hypocrites of all professions for it is your owne Yee haue a forme of Godlinesse denying the power thereof What is an Hypocrite but a Player the Zani of Religion as ye heard lately a Player acts that he is not so doe ye act good and are wicked here is a semblance of good a forme of Godlinesse here is a reall euill a deniall of the power of Godlinesse There is nothing so good as Godlinesse yea there is nothing good but it nothing makes Godlinesse to be good or to be Godlinesse but the power of it for it is not if it worke not and it workes not if not powerfully now the denyall of good must needs bee euill and so much more euill as the good which is denyed is more good and therefore the denyall of the power of Godlinesse must needs bee as ill as the forme or shew of Godlinesse would seeme good and as the power of Godlinesse is good this is therefore the perfect hypocrisie of fashionable Christians they haue the forme they deny the power here is then a direct and professed opposition betwixt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the forme and the power and no lesse betweene the actions employed about them both the one hauing the other denying hauing the forme denying the power As all sinne is originally from the Diuell so especially Hypocrisie hee is the father of Lyes and what is Hypocrisie but a reall Lye that is his Darling and these two are well put together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. TIM 3. 2. in Hypocrisie speaking Lyes Now as all things are more eminent in their causes and originals then in the effects deriued from them so it must needs be said that the greatest Hypocrite in the World is the Diuell I know hee heares what I say but wee must speake truth and shame him For Satan is trasformed into an Angel of light saith the Apostle not he was but he is so transformed that he neuer did neuer will put off that counterfeit and as all his Impes are partakers of the Satanicall nature so in euery Hypocrite there is both the Angel and the Diuell the seeming Angel is the forme of Godlinesse the reall Diuell is the denyall of the power of Godlinesse It must be in another sense that that father said Innocentia tempore posterior est quam malitia I am sure the Angel of light was before the Satan and now because hee is Satan hee puts on the Angel of light such shall be our method in this Hypocrite wee treat of first wee will begin with the Angell of Hypocrisie and then shew you the Diuell in his true shape First then here is a forme and but a forme of Godlinesse A forme do's well but if it be but a forme it is an immateriall shadow of Pietie such was this of these men for they were vnnaturall traytors headye high-minded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Surely if they were vnnaturall they must needs bee vnchristian if they were traytors to their King they could bee no Subiects to God if heady and high-minded they had nothing to doe with him whose first Lesson was Learne of me for I am meeke Nulla creatura humilior Deo as Laurentius well if they had pleasure for their Idoll they could not haue the Lord for their God so as euen without God they had yet a forme of Godlinesse Godlinesse is a thing much talkt of little vnderstood whiles the ancient Schoole had wont to say that it is not practicall not speculatiue but affectiue their meaning was that it is in all these in the heart in the braine in the hand but most in the heart it is speculatiue in the knowledge of God practicall in the Seruice to God affectiue in our feare of him loue to him ioy in him Shortly then to apprehend God as he hath reuealed to serue him as hee hath required to bee affected to him as wee ought is