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A93061	The hypocrites ladder, or looking-glasse. Or A discourse of the dangerous and destructive nature of hypocrisie, the reigning and provoking sin of this age. Wherein is shewed how far the hypocrite, or formal professor may go towards heaven, yet utterly perish, by three ladders of sixty steps of his ascending. Together with a looking-glass, clearly discovering that lurking sin of hypocrisie. As also another glass to try sincerity of grace by. / By Jo. Sheffeild minister of the word at Swithins London.	Sheffeild, John, d. 1680.	1657 (1657)	Wing S3063; Thomason E1570_1	172,287	360

love and patience of hope c. 1 Faith is the first watering grace humility plants faith waters sincerity gives the increase perseverance crowns and a working faith is a watering faith It is a principal member and holds the head to get more nourishment to it self first then conveyes to all the fellow-members other holy graces Faith begins to work so soon as it begins to bee works in desires longings pantings hungrings thirstings when it is yet weak but as it gets more strength it undertakes greater works it works first may bee on a threat then on a promise some single promise afterwards upon all the bundle of the promises then upon commands then upon all duties at last it is able to indure all trials 1 A working faith works upon Christ and works it self into him as the Cony works into the Rock 2 It works upon the promise as a strong stomach on wholesome meat concocts it and getteth strength from it 3 It works upon corruption as Aqua-fortis upon iron to eat it asunder or as a Corrosive on corrupt flesh to consume it 4 It works against temptation as the Pioner works for his life to countermine such as would blow him up 5 It works and tugs at a duty as a Mariner at Sea who hath his hand on the Rudder and his eye fixed on heaven 6 Against Satan it works as a hardy Souldier that stands in the breach and will dye in the place rather than give ground 7 It may bee said to work with God as Jacob did it wrestles strives intreats holds his hold and will not let go without a blessing and when all other emergent works are out of hand it hath one constant business to pursue which as the good huswifes work is never at an end to work up the work of his salvation with fear and trembling So that a true Phil. 2. 12. faith is alway accompanied with and may bee said to bee perfected by works Jam. 2. 22. That it may bee said to every true beleever as to the Church of Thyatira I Rev. 2. 19. know thy works and charity and service and faith and patience and thy works again and the last to bee more than the first This is the lively faith the lasting faith To beleeve is a work Joh. 6. 29. But the faith of hypocrites is a dead liveless imaginary faith Those are the Solifidians and Nullifidians who are the Nullioperists Many think faith hath an easie and idle life of it a Ladies life neither to toyl or spin yet to bee cloathed above Solomon in all his glory with the rich robes of Christs righteousness or the life of an Vsurer who whether hee sleep or wake his profit comes tumbling in and hee hath no more to do but to tell and take it as if faith had nothing to do but to tell the promises accept a Saviour receive a pardon challenge a priviledge and wait for the Rent-day of full payment as if it were to wash his steps in butter anoint his head with oyl and swim in the Rivers and floods and brooks of honey and butter Job 20. 17. Those deeps of the love of God and the blood of the Lamb but these are much mistaken This is the wages not the work of faith the Holy-day work as I may say and not the work-day business Faith hath business for both hands Active and Passive work as well as Applicative Faith is a stout Champion therefore the Lord sets it as David did Vriah in the face and front of sharpest encounters It is sent into the soul as the soul into the body to animate move and guide it or as the Labourer into the Vineyard to work there It must purifie the heart Act. 15. 9. as well as pacifie it Sanctifie Act. 26. 18. as well as justifie Rom. 5. 1. It must fight the fight of faith 1 Tim. 6. 12. Conquer the victory of faith 1 Joh. 5. 4. It must pray the prayer of faith Jam. 5. 15. It must obey The obedience of faith Rom. 1. 5. and 16. 26. It must bee a shield to quench fiery darts Eph. 6. 16. as well as a hand to receive Christs bounty It must bee a Breast-plate 1 Thess 5. 8. It must endure trials The trial of your faith 1 Pet. 1. 7. wee are to live by faith Heb. 10. 38. Walk by it 2 Cor. 5. 7. Receive Christ by it to dwell and rule in us Eph. 3. 17. Resist Satan by this mainly that hee may not get into us or rule over us 1 Pet. 5. 9. Such a faith hath somewhat to do This faith no hypocrite can have His workless faith is a worthless faith The dead faith in the soul is like the dead flye in the boxe of ointment mars the whole Eccles 10. 1. like the Mare mortuum or dead Sea kills every thing that comes near it like the dead first born in the Egyptians houses filled the whole house with mourning Ex. 12. 29. 30. In a word like a dead image of Christ in stone or wood which though an ignorant Papist may adore an understanding Protestant will cast out of doors and abolish 2 Love is the second Nutritive grace and Labour is his Character Love is the glory of the soul and Labour the glory of Love But an unsound Professor wants both hee may have faith but hee wants love hee dreams hee loves God but hee hath no labour in his love It costs him little The spirit of love is ever the spirit of a sound minde and sincere Christian 2 Tim. 1. 9. Faith is a great strengthner but love much more faith makes the first union love the next and the last and most perfect Faith receives Christ Love roots and grounds in him Eph. 3. 17. Grows up to him in all things Eph. 4. 15. Faith makes the contract Love the consummation and the consummation is above any contract Faith Hope and Charity are the three principal Graces but Love is the principal of the three Faiths chief work is to work by love Faith and hope are onely for this life faith for present hope for Gal. 5. 6. the future Love is both for present and future this life and that to come Faith is an Evangelical grace Love an Angelical the work of faith is our work the work of love is Angels Love crowns the soul in heaven Eph. 1. 4. Love crowns the duty on earth Faith is a great uniting grace but Love a far greater Faith unites us to Christ but Love unites him to us and us to him reciprocally Faith unites but two Love unites all Faith us to the head onely Love to the head and to all the members Eph. 1. 15. Your faith in Christ and love to all the Saints Love is the union of Christians yea of Angels yea of the blessed Trinity Faith is a self-saving grace Love the world-saver Self-faith is best faith Hast thou faith have it to thy self Self-love is worst love have love one to

still as a Generation of Vipers and said who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come Were hee now alive hee would wonder as much to see so many Pharisees and Sadduces fly as fast from his Baptisme and would cry after them O Generation of Vipers who hath warned you in that way to fly from wrath to come Let there bee some better fruits of repentance for as neither Circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth any thing so nor Baptisme nor Anti-baptisme not this or that Profession will stand before the Fan and the fire but sincerity and the New Creature it is not being of the Stock of Abraham will free from the stroke of the Axe but the good fruit when there shall bee a general conflagration it is onely the hanging out of this red line of sincerity will save us as Rahab once and gain us the benefit of the Articles of Peace and Covenant of Grace Those are sad and smart sayings of the Gospel they that are last shall bee first Ma. 20 16. and the first last Many are called few chosen and though the number of the children of Israel bee as the Sand of the Sea yet a Remnant only shall bee saved Rom. 9 27. It concernes thee therefore Reader to bee serious and to seek to produce a better Pedigree and Title than Profession Baptisme Possession Succession Church-fellowship yea or visible Saintship How far may the hypocrite go Who can count the number of this Beast or rightly discern this plague of Leprosie It may have brightness and whiteness and no black or blew spots at all appearing yet bee the infection Lev. 13. 2 3. I have for thy sake endeavoured the best I could to shew how far the hypocrite may go Hee may advance sixty steps as I have shewed and go up three long ladders towards heaven yet fall as Lucifer I therefore shoot a warning Arrow beyond thee as Jonathan did to David to hasten 1 Sam. 20. 38. thee to get further I have also to prevent thy danger endeavoured to make discovery wherein it is the miscarrying Professor is found defective and that I shew partly whence it is as to his state Chap. 4. as to his duties Chap. 5. and as to his graces Chap. 6. 7 8 9. I have also set thee two glasses to look into the former mentioned Chap. 16. I wish it as Daniel did the Dream to thine Dan. 4. 19. Enemies not to thee unless to undress by The other Glasse Chap. 17. I dare cornmend to thee upon my life that is for thee to dress by and I put it into thy hand upon my word I say not what is that worth in this case but upon the Word of God And now that it would please God to make this latter Glasse to every Reader and Beholder like Jacobs rods laid in the Gen. 30. 38. Gutters before the Flocks that they conceived thereupon and brought forth likecoloured young so that each beholder of himself in this Glass of sincerity may bee changed into the same Image by the Spirit of God Oh Sincerity Sincerity Thou fairest among women amongst all the grave where is the place of thy abode What Job said of Divine Wisdome I may say of this Divine Grace But where shall integrity Iob 28. 12 13 14. bee found And where is the place of Sincerity Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it to bee found in the Land of the living The Sea saith it is not in mee and the depth it is not with mee it cannot bee gotten for gold neither shall silver bee weighed for the price thereof c. Death and destruction say they have heard the fame thereof as being long since departed Ver. 22. What the Platonists say of Verity I may say of Sincerity much more If God say they were minded to assume to himself a composition of body and soul Surely say they Light should bee his Body and Truth the Soul I may say if Religion or Christianity were to bee seen light should bee the cloathing and sincerity the soul It is so much the life and soul of Religion that take this away from any grace it withers yea becomes null and void so that without sincerity knowledge is not to bee acknowledged Repentance is to bee repented of hope it self were out of hope and faith could not trust God nor God love our charity all works were but dead works and splendid sins What therefore Jansenius that famous Bishop of Ipres said when asked which of all the Attributes of God hee did most admire Hee answered his Truth and would often in admiration thereof cry out O Veritas Veritas O Truth Truth For alas What comfort could the poor soul have not only in the knowledge wisdome power but in the mercy love promise and Covenant of God If all were not founded in his truth So I am sure of all the Attributes given to the Christian sinterity is the highest Noahs Jobs Asaes Attribute for what were all knowledge profession and holiness it self without this Therefore as a learned Doctor lately said in a like case I may say in admiration of sincerity vix me contineo quin Exclamem Salve Regina professionum In the whole D. Arrow smith visible world saith hee man is the most excellent piece in man the soul in the soul understanding in the understanding knowledge in knowledge Religion or the knowledge of God in Religion Christianity I may carry it one step further and adde in Christianity sincerity Wee had once our Chronicles tell us a disease very infective and destructive to the English called Morbus or sudor Anglicus the Sweating Sickness it raged more among those of this Nation than any where else there were two Dukes died of it there were also two Lord Mayors of London and six Aldermen died of it in eight daies space this is a worse disease with which the English are now tainted this may bee called Morbus Anglicus too properly Oh that as God was pleased to give a stop to that that wee now have no knowledge of such a disease so it may please him to heal the hurt of the daughter of our people that there may neither bee a Canaanite in the Land nor hypocrite in the Church that the remnant of our Israel may not do iniquity nor speak lies nor that a deceitful tongue Zeph. 3. 13. shall bee found in their mouths much less a deceitful heart Oh that it may never bee said of England or London what Epiphanius said once of Constantinople going thence Relicturus sum tria magna a tergo ingentem urbem ingens Palatium ingentem hypocrisim So here Relicturus sum ingentem Gentem ingentem urbem ingentem hypocrisim I am leaving a great and warlike people a great and populous City and a great deal of hypocrisie both in City and Nation What therefore Alexander said once to a Cowardly Lubber call'd by his name either change thy Name I

the beauty of the head the face of the face the eye of the eye the Apple such is sincerity the Man the Head the Face the Eye the Apple the Glory the Beauty the All. Of which I might speak a great deal more but I forget that I am but writing an Epistle and a Preface not a treatise at the present Now what remains but that all the people of God bee desired to deal with other controversies and contentions Logomachyes or Theo-logomachyes as they did with Amasa when wallowing in his blood hee caused every man to stand still and not pursue the battel of the Lord I say what remains but to cover this Amasa and to draw him out of the way that wee may pursue this 2 Sam. 20. 12 13. more dangerous Son of Bichri and especially that the Lord Jesus bee desired with humble and incessant supplications to take his fan into his hand and throughly purge his floor gathering out the bryars and thorns one of his Vineyard and if wee may not bee so happy as to see an hedge set about his Vineyard that hee will set up his watch Tower in our hearts and that hee will come with his Refiners fire and Fullers Soap and purge both the sons of Levi and the whole family of Israel as Gold and silver are purged and that hee who hath the keyes of heaven and hearts would open the Es 26. 2. gate that a righteous Nation which keepeth the truth may enter in I. S. To the Unsincere Professor resting in the form of Godliness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Spirit of Power of Love of a Sound Minde with Repentance I Remember that Learned Perkins that faithfull Servant of Jesus Christ did once direct one of his books to the ignorant and simple people and our blessed Saviour one of his Epistles to the Church at Sardis a people who had only a name to live but Revel 3. 1. were really dead and whose works were not perfect before God the Servant to instruct the one and the Master to awaken the other And therefore though many other godly and painful Writers have directed their writings to the perusal of the godly and Christian Readers I have chose to recommend this following discourse to thee to shew thee first thy self and thy own unsafe condition then to provoke thee to consider thy waies and amend them I must say of this discourse as St. Paul said once of the Law The Law is not 1 Tim. 1. 9 10. made for the righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners for unholy and prophane c. So this discourse is not made for the godly and humble and sincere they have an Vnction that teacheth them and a Monitor that remembereth them that wee need not say to such know the Lord therefore I write not to them but to the lawless and liveless to the graceless and Christless Professor And to thee I may speak in the words of Ahijah the Prophet 1 King 14. 6. to the wife of Jeroboam disguising her self I am sent to thee with heavy tidings To these our Mourning Mother saith in the words of Jepthe to his Daughter Alas my Childe Thou hast brought mee Judg. 11. 35. very low thou art one of those that troubleth mee or more sharply in the words of Saul to his Son and with more truth Thou art the shame of thy Mothers nakednesse 1 Sam. 20. 30. I am easily sensible that the Church hath been of latter dayes more fruitful in the number of Professors than formerly as Israel when of a suddain the mixt multitude poured in among them But as I have read of some women that have brought forth numerous or rather monstrous Births as a Countess of Hausbergh that at one birth was delivered of three hundred sixty five as Lud. Vives and others report Another Lady Daughter to the Earl of Holland as many And another in Cracovia delivered of thirty six children yet none of these came to maturity or ever lived to encrease the world So have wee had numbers of Professors added yet not to the encrease of the Church of whom wee may take up that which is said Es 9. 3. Thou hast multiplied the Nation and not encreased the joy I know also that many of our now Professors are in shew more glorious in forms if not some above all forms far more transcendent in self-opinions and admirations more exalted wee have many Absaloms who think if they were in place and they might bee hearkened to they could better wield may I not say wilde Kingdomes and they could better mould and moddle may I not say moulder Churches than ever yet they were since the Apostles dayes when they have nothing but craft and guile if not blood and Treason in their Vows and Sacrifices Once I heard the Christian world groaned and admired it was so suddenly become Arrian now a Prophane world may wonder that it should so soon become Christian and with like words to the Churches wonder Es 49. 21. Who hath begotten mee these who hath brought up these Behold I was left alone these where had they been Wee have now such as say as the Prophet saith In the pride and stoutness of their hearts the bricks of Popery and Prelacy are fallen down but wee will Es 9. 10. build with hewen stones and the low Sycomore trees are fallen down of Presbytery c. but wee will build with Cedars Wee have them that say of their members or Teachers as the Assyrian of his Princes Are not my Princes altogether Es 10. 8 9. Kings Or as the Corinthian Professors who said they were rich and full Reigned as Kings without Paul and such like 1 Cor. 4. 8. Ministers and these say is not Calnoh as Carchemish Is not Hamath as Arpad Samaria as Damascus So now is not Rome as Sodome Prelacy as Gomo●rah Presbytery as Babylon Independency also as Egypt But our Land Goshen our Pepuza Jerusalem our Church Capernaum and our members Sion Wee read Jer. 24. 1. that the Prophet Jeremiah saw in a Vision two Baskets of Figs before the Temple the first very good the latter stark naught representing the Professors of the first and second Edition or transplantation Wee have seen the like The former the Lord promised to own and acknowledge the latter hee rejected wee may cry out with the Prophet Micah 7. 1. Woe is mee I am as when they have gathered the Summer fruits as the Grape gleanings of the Vintage there is no cluster to eat my soul desireth the first ripe fruit the goodman is perished out of the earth and none i● upright amongst them the best of them is a bryar the most upright sharper than a thorn hedge c. When John the Baptist in his dayes saw a many Pharisees and Sadduces come Mat. 3. 7. flocking to his Baptisme hee wondered more than joyed at the sight looking upon them

thing to pray another to watch in prayer strive wrastle be instant in prayer it is a small thing to fast look sourly hang down the head like a bulrush it is somewhat more to afflict the soul pour out the soul draw out the soul If thou wouldest look on thy fleece when thou hast prayed and see what drops of dew are on it look on thy face when thou prayest and see what drops of sweat are on thy fore head and of tears in thy eyes In this exercise wee must not stir ad ruhorem but ad sudorem ad calorem fervorem Rom. 12. 11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be fervent boyling hot in spirit serving the Lord. Holy Bradford never left praying till his heart yeelded and melted But the hypocrites service is a cold dead cheap and easie service hee hath a male in his flock hath activity Mal. 1 14 and spirit in businesses of the world but offers to God a corrupt thing the sick and lame that cannot go alone hee appears before the Lord empty offers to God that which costs him nothing which Davids soul abhorred hee doth the Lords work negligently and cryes out ad quid 2 Sam. 24. 24 profusio istaec whereto serveth this waste of time spirits and strength more than needs In the Law Ceremonial wee read God did reject the firstling of an Ass a dull creature from being consecrated among other firstlings he would rather see his neck broken then his flesh upon his Altar The slow and slothfull Lev. 11. 30. Snail and Tortois might not bee eaten or touched and whatsoever Fowl did creep and what had wings to flye which if it did crawl and creep was above all Lev. 11. 20. 23. to bee an abomination what should the Lord do with a dull Ass or lazy Snail in his service Wee may not say in this case The Lord hath need of him So that prayer that should flye if it do creep and sleep what is it but an abomination The hypocrite thinks it the easiest matter in the world to serve God to pray beleeve c. But the Scripture tells us another tale and makes it a harder matter than most think of Wee will serve the Lord said Israel to Joshuah you say Josh 24. 19 more than you can do said hee Yee cannot serve the Lord for hee is an holy and jealous God And whereas an hypocrite thinks it so easie a matter to pray hee can do it with one hand tyed behinde him hee thinks the godly man complains except the Spirit help his infirmities Rom. 8. 26 hee knows not how to pray at all or to set one word before another any more than the weak Infant who cannot go a step if not held by the hand of the Nurse or the young Schollar who knows not how to hold his pen in writing or make one good letter longer than his hand is guided by his Masters What the one glories hee can do with ease with a wet finger as wee say the other findes by sad experience and laments that hee cannot yet skill of though it hath cost him many a wet eye and cheek 4 The hypocrite is constantly out in his prayers and other holy services ever distracted and at a loss A sincere man is too often the hypocrite ever his holy duties are therefore called Dead works because the heart and soul is separated from them The hypocrites heart is unbroken his prayers broken the others heart is rent but his prayers intire I give my self to prayer said David or I Psal 109. 4 am all prayer as the original hath it The one doth hoc agere the other aliud agere Hee draweth neer with his lips his heart far off Near God in his lips far off Es 29. 13. in his reigns They sit as my people and hear but their heart goes after their covetousness Jer. 12. 2 Eze. 33. 32 The mouth and heart are far asunder in prayer the ear and heart in hearing The godly can often say to his comfort I sleep but my heart waketh Cant. 5. 20 Even when I am about other Civil imployments My soul keepeth silence unto Psal 62. 1 God I am still when I am awake or even at work with thee My soul followeth hard Psal 139. 18 after God and the other must say if hee speak truth I wake and pray but my heart Psal 63. 8 sleepeth my heart is still pursuing earthly objects even when I seem imployed in heavenly services 5 The hypocrite hath ever designes upon God in all his duties and desires that God should comply with him the sincere soul hath designes upon himself and desires help of God that hee may comply wholly with him The one offers ever a Wave-offering he waves his lips to God and when it comes to perfect and Es 43. 24 through obedience hee waves that the godly offers a whole Burnt-offering the hypocrite Vtitur Deo ut fruatur mundo makes use of God and would make him serve as Isaiah hath it serve his turn when hee is in a strait But his end is not God but himself hee fasts and prayes to himself as Zach. 7. 5. Did yee fast at all to mee saith God No no such matter Non tua sed te saith a godly soul Lord I seek not thine so much as thy self Te propter te Tua post te propter te O Lord I seek thee for thy self not thy gifts thy gifts are sweet thy self sweeter thy gifts relieve mee thy self onely can satisfie Psal 42. 2 10 ● mee My soul is a thirst for God Oh when wilt thou come to mee Thou art my portion saith my soul Nunquani ad te nisi ob te nunquam a te absque te Lord I would never come to thee but for thy self and let mee never go from thy presence but with thee present An hypocrite on the other side hath ever a desire to draw God over to him as Balaam and they Jer. 42. who desired much that Jeremy should pray for them that they might go into Egypt and do what they liked and that God should give his placet and consent Thus devout was Pharaoh and Zedekiah Intreat for us say they This is non te sed tua in plain English to say Lord wee would that thou Mar. 10. 35. shouldst do for us whatsoever wee desire A very reasonable request To whom our Saviours answer is You know not what you ask Quid dabis is the hypocrites first Petition as it was Judasses What wilt thou give mee what profit will it bee c. Job 21. 15. not Quid rependam what shall I render unto the Lord A godly soul prayeth with holy Austin Da quod Jubes Jube quod vis Give mee Lord to will what thou commandest and then command as long as thou wilt 6 An hypocrite cannot take a little more pains in a duty but hee is puft up presently and

bee brought down and the Lord alone exalted in that day Isaiah 2. 17. 2 Self-denial is the second fundamental 2 Self-denial grace which every unsound Professor wants therefore holds not out It is the first lesson Christ teacheth and puts us into If any man will come after Matth. 16. 24 mee let him deny himself c. hee must abdicate his reason wit will wisdome and captivate his thoughts and receive new principles from his new Master If any man bee wise in this world let him become 1 Cor. 3. 18. a fool that hee may bee wise A hard saying to a carnal heart But hee that learns this lesson best proves the best Christian and Schollar in Christs School Wee may say of this lesson as a learned man said of the holy Language many study it some Schollars understand it Vines but there is no Nation scarcely any person that useth and speaketh the Hebrew Tongue so many study this grace of Self-denial some Schollars understand it very few use it The want of this spoyls the Professors of this Age who have too much brains art questions disputes objections dissatisfactions as they say to become humble Christians They assent not to this nor that nor tother hardly any thing they must see more reason for it first The Quarista hath spoyled the Currista Christ shall bee God again as once Tertullian said of Tiberius his act in proposing it to the Senate if hee please men well and his Truths and Scripture shall De humano arbitratu Divinitas penfitatur Nisi homini Deus placuerit Deus non erit Homo jam Deo propitius esse debet Apot. c. 5. bee received and submitted to when they are better satisfied Therefore few sincere Hee that will not learn at first to deny himself will too soon learn to deny his Lord that bought him and to doubt of all the Articles of his faith and all things practized since the Primitive Church The Lords day Infant-baptisme Family-prayers Singing of Psalms the office of a Minister Doctrine of Election perseverance of the Saints are all called in question Sincerity begins in Self-denial and taking up the Cross and ends in self-saving and taking up the Crown or if you will sincerity begins in self-loathing and self-denial is carried on in self-suspecting and self-observing and ends in self-saving whereas hypocrisie begins in self-loving is carried on in self-seeking and ends in self-destroying Hee that loveth his life shall lose it What hindred Naamans obedience to the Prophets counsel to go wash in Jordan and bee clean but want of Self-denial at first Hee went away puffing and blowing I expected some other matter when hee had learnt to deny himself and to beleeve and obey hee was presently cured The mixt multitude though they saw all those signs and wonders in Egypt yet not being well grammared in Self-denial halted and flinched and started and flung back and never came to Canaan they disliked the way the fare the Ministers and Ordinances and every thing and so perished Blessed is hee that is not offended in mee None but a self-denying person partakes of this blessing The Timber well seasoned never warps nor shrinkes the heart well seasoned with this grace never shrinkes neither 3 Repentance is the third Radical 3 Repentance grace wherein hypocrites fall short It is that which in this Chapter Capernaum was upbraided and challenged with vers 20. That they repented not Not that they heard professed beleeved not Simon Magus found it an easier matter Act. 8. 13. 22. compared to beleeve such a beleef as it was than to repent Therefore Peter calls upon him to repent after hee beleeved and told him he was in the gall of bitterness because he repented not he that beleeveth before he repenteth must repent to purpose after such beleeving or of such beleeving or perish in beleeving without repentance Many deal with the doctrine and practise of repentance as children do with a hard lesson they skip it and turn over to an easier The hypocrite can sin and beleeve beleeve and sin but hee cannot repent and rent his heart such is true repentance Joel 2. 13. and live in sin when hee hath done The hypocrite as Magus claps a new faith to an old life this is easie but to make all new and to joyn a new life to new doctrines and a new heart to a new life this is repentance Ezek. 18. 31. this asketh more pains and costs hot water as wee say This is the case of many new converts they long to bee at the fair havens of consolation but would never touch at the port of Repentance nor ever unlade the ship of his burden of sin or meet with contrary winds to drive them Act. 27. 4 7 8. backe or so much as a sayling slowly if I may so far allude to that Sea-voyage of the Apostle Act. 27. 4 7 8. Wee are in this age all for news and ease a new Gospel new Truths an easie salvation and the cheap Gospel is all in all Like Naaman wee like not to hear of washing and washing seven times in Jordan 2 King 5. 10 11 hee expected the Prophet should have prayed and touched the sore and hee should bee healed without any pains of his so do many expect Christ should make a prayer and intercede for us the Spirit of grace should touch the sore and free grace do all and the Father should pronounce us clean The practical part of Repentance is laid aside dead and buried hence so many raw and unsound Christians Mortifying the deeds of the body plucking out the right eye are torn out of the Gospel Instead of mortifying the deeds of the flesh wee mortifie the works grace and motions of the Spirit instead of repenting of sin wee repent of duty and repent of Repentance But the Word tells us there is no Gospel to bee preached without repentance Mark 1. 15. no remission of sins to bee promised without repentance Luke 24. 47. and that this is as necessary as faith Act. 20. 21. yea to bee preached and practised before the fiducial application of faith therefore so often set-before it Mark 1. 15. Act. 20. 21. Matth. 21. 32. Heb. 6. 1. Although I am not ignorant as no faith is saving without repentance as in Magus so no repentance without faith as in Judas they must go both together And therefore wee come to speak in the next place after these Radical Graces of the three Nutritive whereof faith is first CHAP. VIII The Nutritive Graces which an Hypocrite lacks THirdly There must bee Nutritive Nutritive Graces three 1 Faith Graces as well as Radical The stony ground miscarried for want of moysture as well as root Faith Hope and Charity are the three great conserving and nutritive Graces especially if they bee right and have their right and proper adjuncts they are put together 1 Thess 1. 3. Remembring your work of faith labour of