Sincerity and hypocricy. Or, the sincere Christian, and hypocrite in their lively colours, standing one by the other.: Very profitable for this religion professing time. / By W.S. Serjeant at Law. Together with a tract annexed to prove; that true grace doth not lye so much in the degree as in the nature of it.

SECT. VIII.

7 In their love to Ordinances.

The true Christian doth love and delight in all the rest, the Ordinances of God, the Sabbo••h, Sacrament, Prayer, and the like. And some kind of love and delight there may be also in the heart of an Hypocrite, but with a great deal of difference. The love of the sincere Christian to them is as they are pure Ordinances from God, and are by divine institution, and serve to his glory, and the good of souls, and as they serve to bring God and us near together, and to maintain our communion with him: And it is his meat and drink to use th••m, Rom. 7. 22. Heb. 8. 10. His Laws are put into their mind, and written in their hearts. Rom. 7. 22. He doth delight in the Law of God after the inward man. And to∣gether with his use of them he doth joyn Re∣formation of heart and life, Psal. 119. 14 I have rejoyced in the waies of thy Testimonies, Psal. 119. 10, I have refrained my feet from every evil way, Ps. 40. 8. But that which is in the heart of an Hypocrite of delight and pleasure in them, is very little and short. And that is onely for his self ends at the most, because he conceiveth there is a ne∣cessity of the doing of them in order to salva∣tion:

And so an Hypocrite may like of, and use them as a bridge to goe over to heaven, or as men use Physick. But commonly he doth ac∣count all these things as a burthen, and he doth use them as a cloak to his wickedness, Isa. 58. 2, 3, 4, &c. Isa. 59. 2, 3, &c. Ezech. 33 32. Amos 8. 5. When will the New Moon be gone, &c. the Sabboth, &c? And he doth continue still in his wicked∣ness (at the least of the heart) as before. Psal. 58. 2, 3 Yea in heart ye work wickedness, &c. Mat. 23. 27. Acts 8 22, 23.