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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27163	The theatre of Gods judgements wherein is represented the admirable justice of God against all notorious sinners ... / collected out of sacred, ecclesiasticall, and pagan histories by two most reverend doctors in divinity, Thomas Beard ... and Tho. Taylor ...	Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.; Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1642 (1642)	Wing B1565; ESTC R7603	428,820	368

were deluded and carried beside themselves by the subtilty of Satan in the yeare 1591 and of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth 3 3 the memory whereof is yet fresh in every mans head and mouth and therefore I will but briefly touch the same Edmund Coppinger and Henry Arthington two gentlemen being associated with one William Hacket sometimes a prophane very leud person but now converted in outward shew though not in inward affection were so seduced by his hypocriticall behaviour and the devils extraordinary devices that from one point to another they came at last to thinke that this Hacket was anointed to be the Judge of the world and therefore comming one day to Hackets lodging in London he told them they had been anointed of the Holy Ghost then Coppinger asked him what his pleasure was to be done Goe your way saith he and proclaim in the citie that Christ Jesus is come with his fanne in his hand to judge the earth and if they will not beleeve it let them come and kill me if they can Then Coppinger answered it should be done forthwith and thereupon like mad-men he and Arthington ran into the streets and proclaimed their message aforesaid and when by reason of the concourse of people they could not proceed any further they got up into two emptie carts in Cheape crying Repent repent for Christ Iesus is come to judge the world and then pulling a paper out of his bosome he read out of it many things touching the office and calling of Hacket how he represented Christ by taking part of his glorified body c. Besides they called themselves his Prophets one of Justice another of Mercy And thus these simple men were strangely deceived by a miraculous illusion of Satan who no doubt by strange apparitions had brought them into this vaine conceit But let us observe the end of it it was thus the whole citie being in amaze tooke Hacket the breeder of this device and arraigning him before the Maior and other Justices found him guiltie as well of this seditious practise as of speaking traiterous words against the Queene wherefore he was shortly after hanged on a gibbet in Cheap-side counterfeiting to his last his old devices and at length uttering horrible blasphemies against the Majestie of God As for his Prophets Coppinger dyed the next day in Bride well and Arthington was kept in prison upon hope of repentance CHAP. XX. Of Hypocrites AS God is a Spirit and Truth so he will be worshipped in truth of spirit and affection and not in hypocrisie and dissimulation for which cause he commandeth us by the mouth of Moses in the sixth and tenth chapters of Deuteronomy To love and honour him with all our heart with all our soule and all our strength which hypocrites are so farre from doing that they have nothing in them but a vaine shew of coined religion and so by that means break the first commandement thinking to bleare Gods eyes with their outward shewes and ceremonies as if he were like men to see nothing but that which is without and offereth it selfe to the view but it is quite contrary for it is he that descryeth the heart and searcheth out all the cornors thereof to see what truth and sinceritie is therein and therefore hateth and detesteth all hypocrisie and abhorreth all such service as is performed onely for fashion sake or in regard of men as appeareth by there proofes and checks which the Prophet Esay denounceth against the hypocrites of his time who made shew of honouring God but it was but with their lips and vaine and frivolous ceremonies not in truth of heart and affection so our Saviour Christ thundred out his curses against the Scribes and Pharisees with the judgements and vengeance of God for their hypocrisie With this sinne was Balaam that wicked Prophet upon whom God bestowed a certaine gift of prophesie infected for when King Balac sent for him to curse the Israelites he made as though he would not enterprise any thing contrary to the will of God as if he had him in great reverence and estimation neverthelesse being allured and enticed by the golden presents which were sent him he despised Gods commandement and discovered his own secret impietie and became an hired slave and enemy to the people of God but as he was in journey towards him there happened a strange and prodigious thing an Angell met him by the way with a naked sword in his hand ready to hew him in pieces whom when he himselfe being blinded with covetousnesse as with a vaile could not perceive ●is asse saw and was afraid and that which was more strange the poore bruit and dumbe beast speaking in a new language like a man reproved his masters madnesse Whereat he being sore amazed and notwithstanding all the asses humbling before the Angell yet pursued his unhappy journey to his eternall shame and confusion as one of an obstinate and heardened heart for he was forced by the Spirit of God to blesse those whom he had purposed to curse and yet further discovering his hypocrisie and envious disposition he was the cause why the Israelites provoked the wrath of God against themselves through the pernicious and deceivable counsell which he gave to the Madianites for which cause he himselfe was in the end slain In this range may we place Geesie Elizeus servant who being as is it were the Disciple and profest follower both of his Masters life and doctrine the true Prophet of God by whom for the further assurance and confirmation of the grace and blessing of God he had seene many notable and excellent miracles wrought yet notwithstanding was not true of heart but drawne aside by desire of lucre that caused him secretly unwitting to his master to ru●ne after Naaman the Syrian in his masters name for the money and apparell which his master had before refused and supposing his knavery to be so hidden that it could not come to light God discovered and pulled off his visard and punished as well the deed as the manner of doing hereof upon him and his posteritie with a perpetuall leprosie Saint Luke in the first chapter of the Acts doth at large describe the hypocrisie of Ananias and Saphira who that they might seeme zealous to Godward and charitable toward the Saints having sold a certaine possession under pretence of giving the price thereof among the poore retained covertly a certaine portion of it to their owne use being so impudent as to lye unto the Holy Ghost the President of the Church and founder of all secrets but being attached by the mouth of Peter a just and fearfull judgement of God fell on them both even their sudden death at the Apostles feet one after another Nicephorus telleth of one Philip the first Emperour that undertook the name and profession of Christ but by the report of other writers it proceeded not from any zeale of Religion