SECT. VIII.
In his impositions upon others consciences.
8 It is a good sign of Sinceritie to be tender and merciful, as to impositions upon the con∣sciences
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.
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- 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.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93117.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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of others, but rather to bee severe a∣gainst a mans selfe. A sincere Christian can spare others in that wherein hee will not spare himself. He dareth not to impose hard things upon the conscience of others, and such as he is not willing to bear himself. Acts 15. 28. And it savours much of hypocrisie, and is very much a sign of an hypocrite, where a man is severe and rigid to presse and impose hard burdens, either such as God imposeth otherwise than God imposeth them: or Impositions of men that God never imposed; when a man shall ri∣gorously in his reproofs inveigh against other mens sins, make every moa••e a beam, and pres•• duties much upon others, whereof he will not bear any part himself: hee is very partial and favourable to himself, his beam shall be but a moate, and he can indulge and spare himself in the neglect, or careless performance of duties. Matth. 23. 4. Luke 11. 46. You binde heavy bur∣dens, &c,