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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17330	Ten sermons vpon the first, second, third and fourth verses of the sixt of Matthew containing diuerse necessary and profitable treatises , viz. a preseruative against the poyson of vaine-glory in the 1 & 2, the reward of sincerity in the 3, the vncasing of the hypocrite in the 4, 5 and 6, the reward of hypocrisie in the 7 and 8, an admonition to left-handed Christians in the 9 and 10 : whereunto is annexed another treatise called The anatomie of Belial, set foorth in ten sermons vpon the 12, 13, 14, 15 verses of the 6 chapter of the Prouerbs of Salomon.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1602 (1602)	STC 4178.5; ESTC S261	267,037	263

conceits and vncharitable surmises as there be heads to heare But it is no matter my brethren thinke and speake of me at your pleasure so long as I haue the truth on my side I care the lesse words are but wind and truth will preuaile in the end and iudge them that now condemne it Saint Paule telleth me that I must passe through good report and bad report and I thanke God so I haue doue meetly well and to the Galathians he saith thus Am I Paul become your enemy because I tel you the truth to shew that whosoeuer will speake the truth shall be counted an enemy But what sayth the same Apostle If I seeke to please men I cannot please God and therfore I am at a point God gaue me an vpright heart in his sight and then as for the fauour and disfauour of the world his will be done But now to the matter in hand Do not your almes that is your good deedes to be seene of men as hypocrites do Our Sauiours purpose is to illustrate his precept by an example of counterfeits and players who do all their feats of purpose to be seene of men to which end they haue a stage erected that mē may see them making proclamation that whosoeuer come to such a place at such an houre shal see such a mans players that is such a mans hypocrites make a play that is play the hypocrites by counterfeiting and shewing diuerse mens actions and diuerse mens persons which they are not neither act they indeede Therefore seeing that the nature and practise of players doth most fitly serue to set foorth the nature practise of such as do but counterfeit and dissemble in the profession and practise of religion when they would be thought to be in good earnest and seeing that for their counterfeiting plaiers were the first that were termed amongst prophane writers hypocrites therefore I say the Scripture hath borrowed that name of them translated it to all that play the dissemblers counterfeits in Gods businesse or otherwise Of this iudgement is master Caluin whose words are these in his Euangelicall Harmony vpon this place Nam quum hypocritae profanis scriptoribus dictifuerint histriones qui in scena ludis fictas personas agebant Scriptura hoc nomen ad homines duplices corde simulatos transtulit that is seeing as players which in Enterludes and on stages did faine and counterfeit the persons of other men were termed hypocrites by prophane writers the Scripture hath translated that name vnto dissemblers and men of a double heart And most fitly are they both called hypocrites because they both counterfeit alike and make a shew before men of that which they are not before God yea so like are they one to another as things cast both in a mould or as those men are that for their likenesse in fauour and condition or for their neerenesse in affinity or office do call one another brothers Amongst Players one counterfeiteth the King and yet is no King but a base fellow in comparison another counterfeiteth a merchant and yet is no merchant but a beggarly companion others come to fight and yet do not fight but dally one with another others scold and brawle and seeme to be at mortal enmitie one against another like some kind of Lawyers at the barre for their Clients but when they are gone they are as good friends as euer they were and laugh at them whom they haue made fooles But indeed certaine persons amongst Players are to be excepted which are not counterfeited for some play the fooles part and are fooles indeed some play the varlets part and are varlets indeede some play the rogues part and are rogues indeede some play the cousiners part and are cousiners indeed some play the parts of lewd men and lewde women and are lewde indeede so that these I thinke haue wrong done them to be tearmed hypocrites because they do not counterfeit the parts they play but are the same indeed that they make shew of except it be in regard of the persons which they represent that they be called hypocrites for those persons they are not indeede though the qualitie of those persons they haue indeed In like manner is it with men of a double heart in religion or otherwise Some seeme to pray when they do not pray but babble with their lips wordes which their minds thinke not of and their hearts consent not vnto and keepe a stir for thrise a weeke seruice not caring for the Sabbath day and come perhaps of contention too rather then of any deuotion These are in shew deuout but in truth deuout hypocrites Some pretend friendship while with the lion they offer to lick poore men whole with a dinner at Christmas or the loane of a little money or the sale of some rotten commoditie while with their teeth that is by cruell practises ill neighbours to a smooth tongue they meane to pray vppon them these are in shew friends but in truth friendly hypocrites Some make a shew of zeale to the glorie of God when their zeale is nothing but bitter malice and malicious bitternesse a thing that too many in the ministerie are guiltie of and wherewith many zealous and faithfull Preachers are vniustly charged by hypocrites But our comfort is that God doth acquite vs when the wicked do condemne vs but they that are maliciously zealous are zealous hypocrites Some in their humble and courteous behauiour seeme altogether to be compounded of humilitie with kind speeches and friendly offers as yours to commaund I owe you any seruice that I can meaning indeed euer to owe it and neuer to pay any I haue the courtesie of the towne for you and I maruell when you will come to our house and I wote not what when indeed they meane no such matter these are humble and kind hypocrites Some seeme very carefull for the poore like Iudas when they would oppresse the Church and either disburden themselues or else enrich themselues with the spoiles of the Church these are charitable benefacting hypocrites Some make a shew of a troubled conscience and seeme desirous of resolution in their pretended doubts when they purpose onely to entrappe the Preacher these are afflicted hypocrites Some seeme to harken to the Preacher very attentiuely and deuoutly when in their hearts they turne most of that they heare into a iest because they like it not these are attentiue hypocrits Some make as though they desired nothing more then the obseruation of the Princes lawes when in the meane time they freely violate all lawes themselues these are lawlesse hypocrites Some crie God forbid but that euery man should haue his due and in the meane time practise all the deuises that may be to defeat euery man these are conscionable or rather vnconscionable hypocrites Some pretend the discharge of their office when they meane thereby to play their parts against some whom they owe a grudge vnto now

in deede only to watch and catch at a word and a halfe taking only what will serue their turne like the diuell himselfe to intangle thereby the preacher if they like him not You shal haue many of these come orderly and marke attentiuely as if they would latch euery word with their mouthes but as it was with the Prophet Ezechiels auditors so is it with them their harts runne another way and they meane not to follow any thing that is giuen in charge and therefore when they are gone with their mouthes they make iestes of the Sermon And to the Minister of Christ commonly their answer is you do well sir to tell vs our dutie and to tell euery man his owne well fare your heart you do well sir you do well to discharge your conscience and if we do not as you bid vs that is our fault we must answer for it and though we do as our honest neighbourt do yet we hope God is a good God will hold vs excused he is not so hard as many would make men beleeue The last sort of open hypocrites that are not yet vncased are common cauillers deprauers of the truth and of those that teach the same Some carpe and cauil at that which they vnderstand but like not as the Lawyer in Luke 14. Maister in so saying thou puttest vs to rebuke also when Christ touched Lawyers and as the couetous Iewes which mocked Christ when he preached against couetousnesse Luke 17. Some cauil at that which they vnderstand not as the Iewes which called Paules preaching babling and new doctrine when he preached the resurrection Oh but will some say he reuengeth his owne priuate quarrels and grudges in the pulpit yea he speaketh of malice and therefore we cannot regard that which he preacheth Doth he so verily the greater is his sinne if he doth so But if those be Gods quarels which thou callest his quarrels and if that be spoken in the euidence of the Spirite with plaine demonstration of the truth which thou sayest is in malice against thee then is it euident that thou hast played the grosse hypocrite so vncharitably to accuse so rashly to iudge and so wrongfully to condemne the Minister of the truth and pretendest thou carest not what and all to put by the blow of Gods sword that so thy sinne might not be launced and yet in the meane time be a professour of religion And what art thou oh man sayth the Scripture that thou iudgest another mans seruant whose heart is knowne to his God and not to thee and to God he either standeth or falleth and not to thee Alas this is an old obiection and slaunder of great antiquity common to all the true Preachers of the word and it hath euer bene the common practise of all hypocrites which meant to liue and dye in their sinnes when they knew not what to say for themselues and fearing that the truth would choke them if they should swallow it to cast it vp againe saying that it was spoken of malice and reuenge So played king Achab who had sold himselfe to worke wickednesse he could not deny but that Micaiah was a true Prophet a plaine dealing man but yet he could not away with him and why so forsooth because he doth not prophecie good but euill vnto me that is he speakes that that likes me not so many cry now adaies he hath not the good-wil of his hearers and why because he doth not seek to please them he is too tart he hath a bitter spirite he doth not heale but wound they do not complaine that he hath a flattering spirite or a lying spirite or a soothing spirite or a fearefull spirite or a pleasing spirite for all this hypocrites can away withall well inough because such a spirite is toothsome but that he hath a quicke and sharpe spirite and his reproofes are sensible and bitter this is wholesome but not toothsome and therefore not to be brooked of hypocrites But now let vs consider my brethren whether this will go for currant payment in the day of the Lord or no Why hast thou cast my word behind thy backe will the Lord say Our aunswer will be because we did not loue him that deliuered it But why did you hate him Because he did not please vs. Not please you why did he preach errours and lyes No we could not find any fault with his doctrine that is sound but yet we cannot away with him he was too plaine and round with vs. Too plaine why that was for your good if planè and sanè if both plaine and sound Oh but Lord we like not his life he was couetous and hard and proud and had no loue in him he was not sociable no good companion not one of his neighbours do loue him Well shall the Lord say thine own conscience thou hypocrite shal giue euidence against thee and conuict thee of false witnesse bearing against many of my seruants in these respects if I now do acquite them what are they the worse for thy bad constructions and hard words And if thy conscience do now proue to thy face that all these allegations were but counterfeit deuises to couer thy sinne withall what art thou the better though all thy neighbours take thy part for thou knowest and I know it much more that many of my seruants haue sought peace at thy hands and then hast thou prepared thy selfe to warre they haue vsed all good meanes to procure thy loue and good liking in the truth and thou hast then construed euery thing in the worst part against them that thou couldest imagine to their faces thou hast spoken faire words and behind their backes thou hast vsed all lying slanderous speeches wherby thou hast made them odious in the world when they would haue taken al paines to do thy soule good thou hast complotted by al waies and meanes to discourage them and to greeue and quench my spirite in them So doe hypocrites which loue not the pure light of truth and so hast thou done And admit that all this were true which thou pretendest yet so long as they came in my name vnto thee with my message reuealed in my word which thou couldest not disproue but carpe at yet oughtest thou to haue heard them to beleeue them and to feare at my word comming out of their mouthes in charity to haue iudged the best of their affections or praied for thē knowing that I which am the searcher of the hart would surely call them to reckning for their affections if they were not vpright in my sight but now in that thou hast deuised mischiefe of thine owne head and put it before thee as a stumbling blocke of purpose to fall vpon and to cause others to fall with thee seeing as thou hast through my seruants sides euen pierced my name my glory and not stayed there but pearked vp Lucifer-like into my seate to

bookes and restrained of their libertie they are weary of that Maister and desire to go to another or else no more to schoole so hypocrites when they are required to take a setled course for their profiting in religion and are restrained of their liberty in sinne in vanity in riot in pride and are pressed with the doctrine of mortification and truth of heart they are weary of such a teacher and must go to another or else come no more at schoole so that it appeareth that they haue no more gouernement of themselues nor strength of the Spirite nor stayednesse of affections then little children haue As it is both schismaticall and so danderous and childish and so ridiculous so it is also vnprofitable For they that leaue the ordinary and standing Ministery of their owne Pastour and none certaine gather here a peece and there a peece but neuer lay any sound foundation nor make any orderly building as they do that tye themselues to one man who keepeth an orderly proceeding laying all the principles of religion one after another and one by another and euerie one in order till all be finished I deny not but that vpon some special occasions a man may be somtime drawne away from his ordinarie teacher as trauelling from home or being requested by our faithfull friends of another congregation to answer for their children as they call it at their Baptizing or to accompanie some of our friends or our Magistrates departed out of this world vnto their graue and such like if Christ be preached there that we may follow him otherwise I see no great necessitie to enforce a man to leaue his ordinarie teacher to go to a bare reader for a ciuill dutie performing but rather to remember what our Sauiour Christ answered to one that sayd he would follow Christ but first he would go and burie his father Let the dead burie the dead saith he follow thou me To shew that those that haue no list to follow Christs doctrine are no better then dead men as touching the life of the spirite in the soule and they may serue for such a purpose well inough it is pitty to interrupt those that are better disposed and deuoutly addicted to the heauenly doctrine of the Gospell And further I hold it a thing very expedient and fit that there be sometimes also an entercourse of Ministers labours that is that other Ministers be sometimes admitted yea procured also to exercise their gifts in their brothers charges both for the confirmation of doctrine as also for the quickening of the auditorie for consent of teachers is a great confirmation of the truth in regard of our weakenesse and vnbeleefe otherwise the truth is strong inough of it selfe and will preuaile against all the world And as variety of meates sometime doth make a man haue a better appetite to his ordinarie diet euen so is it not amisse that sometime our ordinarie auditours should haue change of teachers that so they tasting that varietie of Gods gifts and graces which is in diuerse men they may haue a better spirituall appetite vnto the ministerie and doctrine of their ordinarie pastours and teachers But to runne hither and thither and commonly to leaue our ordinary teachers onely either of a fanstasticall desire to heare new things or of a loathing the plaine simple maner of deliuery of the truth or of stomach in contempt and way of disgracing and discouraging those that God hath set ouer vs because they haue more sharply reproued their sinnes or more neerely applied the doctrine to their consciences then others do a blessed fauor of God indeed if men had grace so to take it this is it that I say is both carnal schismatical childish and altogether vnfruitfull and further it is flatly repugnant to the commandement of Christ deliuered by his Apostle in the 1. to the Thessalonians the 5. Chapter and 12. verse where he beseecheth the Thessalonians to know them that labour among them and are ouer them in the Lord and admonish them and that they haue them in singular loue for their workes sake And lastly is the practise of such as neuer professed the Gospell of Christ in sinceritie and vprightnesse of heart with an humble spirite and a holy desire to haue both their iudgement informed and their liues reformed by the word of truth But on the contrarie in palpable and damnable hypocrisie with shewes shadowes and flourishes to be seene and well esteemed of men as hypocrites do Besides these publike and open hypocrisies there be also many other lurking in priuate corners which deserue to be vncased as in housholds where betweene man and wife many times much loue is counterfeited onely before men and in heart much bitter malice and hatred maintained against each other which betweene themselues breake out in open and bitter extremities and behind each others back into foule adulteries and cursed vndoing of the whole family such an hypocrite is the harlot that Salomon vncaseth in the 7. of the Prouerbes Who when her husband is from home calleth in her louers and companions to lewdnesse and coloureth her villany by prating and telling him of her peace offerings and vowes that she hath performed that day that is by talking of religion I say nothing of those that in shops and markets selling wares will pretend great loue saying If it were not to you I would not sell it so another should not haue it so c. when for the most part all this is but meere cunning and counterfeiting I also let passe those that spying a bargaine that they hope to reape a great benefit by will earnestly protest and pretend vnto the partie with whom they meane to deale great care that they haue of his good and his ease rather then of their owne benefit too many such there be in the world Well God will pull off their visour one day and lay them open to the world What should I say of those that being to followe and further mens suites with great persons or otherwise at law haue still one tricke or other to delay the time withall pretending great care to do their friendes businesse and to followe their clients causes in the best manner that may be and for their best aduantage when all their doing is but a cunning kind of fishing for more money like Felix who often sent for Paule before him hoping that some bribe would haue bene giuen him to haue enlarged Paule And a thousand more such partes are played in the world which men in continuall practise and conuersing one with another in Church and common-wealth abroad and at home shall haue occasion to meete withall But for the vncasing of the hypocrite at this time this shall suffice Those that feare God vnfainedly and detest this vgly beast the hypocrite will make of that which hath bene sayd as for those that say they could make good vse of it if it had come out of