“…the hypocrite’s hope shall perish.”
Job 8:13
“He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before Him.”
Job 13:16
“Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
Mt. 7:5
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Order of Contents
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1600’s
Perkins, William – A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600), Appendices
A Treatise tending unto a Declaration whether a Man be in the Estate of Damnation or in the Estate of Grace, and if he be in the first, how he may in time come out of it: if in the second, how he may discern it and persevere in the same to the end
A Reprobate may in Truth be made Partaker of all that is contained in the Religion of the Church of Rome; and a Papist by his religion cannot go beyond a Reprobate an appendix to A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
Baxter, Richard – A Christian Directory (1673), pt. 1
ch. 1, pt. 1, Direction 17, “That in [conversion]… you may be sincere, and not deceived by an hypocritical change… nor take… up with the religion of an hypocrite, which gives God what the flesh can spare”
ch. 4
pt. 3, “Directions against Hypocrisy”
pt. 5, “Directions against pride and for humility”
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London Presbyterians
Baxter
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London (Presbyterian) Provincial Assembly
A Vindication of the Presbyterial-Government & the Ministry… (London, 1650), pt. 2, pp. 108-9 & 111
“It is not enough for you to keep yourselves from being bemired and besmeared, but you must labor to keep your garments so white as not to have the least spot of defilement from the persons or places where you live. The apostle tells us that in the last days perilous times shall come: For men should be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof (2 Tim. 3:1-2 ff.).
Those words, ‘having a form of godliness’, must be understood, απο κοινου [in common], and referred to all the other sins. And the meaning is that men would be self-lovers, having a form of godliness, truce-breakers, having a form of godliness, traitors and false accusers, having a form of godliness, etc. They should cover all their ungodliness under the specious form of godliness:
Such are the times in which we live of which we may truly say there were never fewer, and yet never more saints; never more nominal, never fewer real saints; never more self-seekers, and yet never more that pretended to seek the interest of Christ…
In a word, we once more beseech you all that are admitted to our sacraments that your conversation may be as becomes the Gospel of Christ; and as you have given up your names unto Christ by profession, so give up your hearts to Him, by universal, sincere, and constant obedience: And let everyone that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.”
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Richard Baxter
A Second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw (London: Simmons, 1671), ‘To those Readers…’, pp. 6-7
“10. And men are much furthered in the way of separation by forgetting what good even hypocrites themselves may receive by their station in the visible Church: And that it is not for nothing that the Great Master of the Church has so ordered the terms of admission (upon mere profession of consent to the baptismal Covenant) and of exclusion (upon proved impenitency in gross sin after sufficient admonition and patience) as that multitudes of bad men ever have been and will be in the visible Church:
Though the regular station that such persons should choose, till they come up to sincere consent, is the place of catechumens, if they were not baptized in infancy, and the place of penitents if they were, yet supposing that they intrude further by a false profession, yet God has provided great advantages in Church communion for their good and secured the innocent from imputation of sin by reason of their presence.
11. And men are induced to separation by forgetting how tender Christ is of the weakest of his members that are sincere, and that he had rather many hypocrites were received than one true Christian shut out: For He has a day at hand in which He will separate the tares from the wheat, and will take out of his kingdom all things that offend and them that work iniquity. And they consider not how impossible it is to shut out all hypocrites and not to shut out many weak ones that are sincere.”
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