Thursday 24th of October, 1695.  
By the Lords Spiritual & Temporal in Parliament Assembled.  
ORDERED,  
On motion, that the Earl of Mount-Alexander and the Lord Viscount Charlemount do give the Thanks of this House to the Lord Bishop of Killaloo for his Sermon Preached before this House at Christ's-Church Yesterday, being the Anniversary of the Three and Twentieth of October, And that his Lordship be desired to cause his Sermon to be Printed.  
Gerard Bor. Cler. Parliamentorum.   

A SERMON PREACHED In CHRIST's-CHURCH, DUBLIN; On the 23d of October. 1695.  
Being the Anniversary Thanksgiving for putting an End to the IRISH REBELLION, which broke out on that Day, 1641.  
BEFORE THE HOUSE of LORDS,  
By HENRY Lord Bishop of KILLALOO.  
DUBLIN, Printed by and for J. Ray, and are to be Sold by the Booksellers in Dublin. 1695   

A SERMON Preached on the 23d of October, 1695.  Job, 8.13. The Hypocrite's Hope shall Perish. 
IT was the saying of a Great and Wise Man, that most of the Creatures are worthy of our best Thoughts, and deserve our serious Observation: That something is to be Learned from every one of them, as well from the smallest Insect under our Feet, as from the glittering Canopy over our Heads; as well from the least Atom in the Sun Beams, as from the Glorious Lustre of the Moon and Stars. Naturalists tells us, That the Ingle taught us Architecture, and drew the first Model of an handsome and convenient House; That the Spider showed the Weaver the use of the Shuttle and the Loom, the good Housewife to manage the Spindle and the Wheel; That Swallows were the first Professed Oculists; That the River-Horse taught us how to breathe a Vein, and that we are obliged to several other Animals for many excellent Discoveries; both in Chirurgery and Physic: We find too many of the Creatures instructing us in things that more nearly do concern us, Reading Lectures to us, and Discoursing with us, like so many Professors in Divinity: The Prophets direct us to the Stork, the Turtle and the Crane, to the Ox and to the Ass, to learn us Gratitude, and our time of returning unto the Lord. Solomon sends us to the Ant, to Preach to us Frugality and Thrift, and a Greater and Wifer than Solomon, to the Serpent and the Dove for Innocence and Wisdom.  
Nay all the Trees, the Plants, and Flowers of the Field, from the Cedars of Lebanon to the Hyssop that springeth out of the Wall, are spoken of by the Holy Penmen, who condescending to our Capacities, borrow many handsome Allusions from things, that we are intimately acquainted with, from the Vine and the Figtree, the Thistle and the Thorn; and indeed from almost all the Herbs and Greene's of the Earth.  
Thus Bildad introduces the Words Read unto you. Can the Rush grow without Mire? Can the Flag grow without Water? whilst it is yet in its Greeness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other Herb, so are the Paths of all that forget God, and the Hypocrite's Hope shall Perish.  
In the Words we shall consider,  
First, The Person, the Hypocrite.  
Secondly, What his Hopes are, and how he comes to Hope.  
Lastly, The End and Consequence of his Hopes, they shall Perish.  
This indeed may be thought no very proper Subject for the occasion; the Tragical Story of the day, the horrid Cruelties, Barbarous Murders, and unspeakable Sufferings the poor Protestants groaned under, might very well have been expected to have been fairly represented to our View: When Saul's Sword against the Amalekites, seemed to be drawn among us, and to act with that large Commission, to slay both Man and Woman, Infant and Suckling, Ox and Sheep, Camel and Ass, only with this difference, that our implacable Enemies spared not so much as the best of the Sheep and Oxen: When the merciless Persecutors of our Forefathers, had not always so much goodness as to Kill, so much Humanity as utterly to destroy; But prolonged their miserable Lives, took care that they might linger under their Torments, and feel themselves die, and at last out of the abundance of their Compassion, dispatched them with a Stab at their Hearts, and that dreadful Imprecation, Thy Soul to the Devil. When the Blood of the Innocent was shed like Water on every Side, Lamentations and Wail were Echoed from every Corner, and our weeping Rachils sat bemoaning themselves, and had none to comfort 'em: When the Cry in most Places was something louder than that of Egypt, for there was scarce an English Family in which there was not more than one Dead; when the dead Bodies of God's Servants that lay weltering in their own Gore were denied the common kindness of the Grave, and were given to be Meat unto the Fowls of the Air; and the flesh of his Saints unto the Beasts of the Field, and the most brutish fury of that bloody Crew was esteemed Meritorious, and thought to deserve not only the Encomiums of a Conclave, but the Apostolical Benediction. It may I say be expected, that I should enlarge upon these particulars; but hope that the Task may be equally ungrateful to us all; That as we delight not in the Effusion of any Man's Blood, so we Sympathise too far with the Sufferings of our Ancestors, to disturb the weary that are at rest, to lay open their Bleeding Wounds, to revive those persuasive Calls to Revenge, those Cries and fearful Screeches which run Parallel to nothing, but that in the Revelation; How long Lord, Holy and True, wilt thou not Judge and Avenge our Blood?  
We shall therefore proceed according to the Method laid down, and as we insist upon the several parts of the Text, take some notice of the Hypocrisy and Dissimulation of our false Brethren, show you what their Hopes were, and that they also fell short of all their Expectations.  
First, Then we shall consider, the Person, the Hypocrite; the word Hypocrite in its Natural and Genuine Sense, signifies an Actor or a Player, one who upon the Public Stage personates another, imposes upon the Spectators, and pasles for the Man he only represents.  
And indeed as the Heathen long since observed, the whole World is a Large Theatre, where the generality of Men do no more than decently represent the Persons they would be thought to be; and the very best of them may put the same Question to themselves, that the Emperor Augustus did to his Friends, when he lay a dying; have not I acted the play of Life very well. For they are disguised into a thousand several shapes, are all mere show, face, and appearance, and he that knows not how to act his part, to play the Hypocrite and Dissembler, knows neither how to Rule nor to Obey; he will make but an awkard Monarch, a rough unaccomplished Courtier, and in most Professions, will want many of those Qualifications, which usually polish and recommend a Man, to the good opinion of the mistaken World. But then the word Hypocrite, signifies a Religious Cheat, a Wolf in sheep's clothing, a Devil in the habit of a Saint, in the Garb of an Angel of Light, one who hath much the colour, but little of the substance, a great deal of the form, but scarce any thing of the power of Godliness; one whose best side is always outward, who makes it his business to be thought Religious, who labours not so much to be really good, as to appear unto Men to be so.  
And now to draw up the Curtain, and bring him upon the Stage; First, Let us take a View of him at his Devotions. He enters into the place of public Worship, with a solemn set Face. He perhaps prostrates himself on the ground, zealously lifts up his hands and eyes towards Heaven, flashes and disciplines himself after the manner of Baal's Priests, cries aloud, smites upon his Breast, and makes a Profession of confessing his Sins, with an humble, penitent and obedient heart.  
By the show he makes, any Man would imagine, That he was above the trifling Things of this lower World, that his Soul was upon the Wing, and full of heavenly Meditations, and that he was talking with his God, as familiarly as ever Moses did, even as a Man speaketh to his Friend; and yet all this while he is but acting a Part, mimicking the Saint, and giving a lively Representation of an extraordinary Pious and Religious Man. For he is Proud, Impenitent, and Disobedient; God is not in so much as one of all his Thoughts; he draws nigh unto him only with his Lips, and thinks of every thing more than of Him; he then only pretends to Worship, and perhaps in his whole Life, never made a hearty Prayer, nor sent up one sincere Petition to the God and Father of all things.  
But to shift the Scene, sometimes you may see the Hypocrite in his Penitential Dress, in a hair Shirt, in the habit of a Pilgrim; or in Sackcloth and Ashes: At other times, you may observe him, hanging down his Head like a Bulrush, souring and disfiguring his Face, looking indeed like a Man that did afflict his Soul, mortify his Members, and bring them into subjection to the Spirit; And yet these external Severities are rarely attended, with any inward Devotion of his Heart; all the while he keeps his Body Low, Thin and Meager, he feeds his Old Sins, he pampers and every Day recruits his Inclinations to new Transgressions; in the midst of all his abstinence, his Soul has its secret Revels and Frolicks in Sin, he drinks Iniquity like Water, and acts all Uncleanness with Greediness,  
And as his Fasting is only acted, so are his deeds of Charity. When he bestows his Alms, it is with all the outward Pomp and Solemnity that may be, in the Streets or in Places of the greatest Resort and Concourse; He proclaims the time of his Benevolence, to morrow I will give; He sounds a Trumpet before his good Dees, rattling his Money into the poor Man's Box; and reaches out his hand with such a sad Countenance, with such an Air of Goodness and Compassion; as if he indeed felt their Wants; was their Brother and Companion in Tribulation, and bore a part in all their Sufferings and Necessities; and yet the kindness is only designed to himself, and were it not to gratify his vain glorious Humour, to get the Reputation of being pitiful and tender Hearted. Were all his Charitable Acts to be secret, and the World not to know, what either his right, or his left Hand did; they would be confined to a narrow compass, even end where they begin at home, and he would part with that Trash his Money, as if it was indeed, what the Rabbins call it in their Language, his dearest Blood.  
If we look into the Hypocrit's Behaviour, in all other Cases, you never find them, without their little Shifts and Devices, to secure their Credit, without some specious pretences to palliate the blackest of their Crimes; I might instance in several particulars, but shall only name some few, relating to that Barbarous Rebellion in this Kingdom; and here the Popish Party tell us, they took up Arms in Defence of his Majesty's Person and Royal Prerogative; whereas in deed those great Pretenders to Loyalty, raised Armies, coined Money, granted Letters of Reprisal, sent Ambassadors to foreign Princes, invaded and rifled all the choicest and most valuable Jewels of the Crown.  
It was say they, A Just and Holy War, for the Liberty of their Consciences, and the freedom of that which they call their Faith and Religion, and yet at that very time, they enjoyed such a licentious freedom of all their Superstitions, that if one of their own holy Fathers may be credited, the Frogs in the second Plague of Egypt were not more numerous, than the Priests and Friars, that then swarmed within the precincts of this one City; but it has never been thought any Reflection, either on the Piety, or Charity of the good Catholics, to shelter their Pride and Ambition, their Malice and Revenge, under the colour of Religion, to counterfeit Christ's Commission, to put his Cross into their Banners, and to express their Zeal for the Lord and his House, in the Blaze and Flames of their Neighbours.  
But then alas! The Protestants were the first Aggressors, and the Papists not daring to stay at home, Assembled together, purely for the safety of their Lives, and their mutual preservation; and therefore admire that they should be called Rebels, who were only a few discontented Gentlemen, apprehensive of a general Massacre, and could not but make some little defence for themselves, and civilly oppose them, who first blew the Trumpet, and were ready for the Battle.  
It would be endless to enumerate all the Pretences they made use of, for the advancing of their Cause, the frequent professions of their kindness and affection to their English Neighbours, the deceitful Kisses, and treacherous Embraces they gave them, the Crocodiles Tears they shed over them, till they had got their Goods and Arms into their Power▪ the Obliging Distinction they made for some days, between the British Inhabitants, till they had Complemented and Wheedled the Scotch too into the Snare, the breach of all their Articles, the Perfidious Violation of the most Sacred Oaths and Promises, and the many other little Arts and Pious Frauds, their Holy Church at that time especially Legitimated, to Decoy the credulous Protestants into their Nets, till they were miserably betrayed, and basely Butchered by those they Trusted, upon the insignificant Pledges, of their Word and Honour.  
Thus if you follow the Hypocrite through all the other parts of his Life, the best thing you can say of him is, that he is a good Actor, he treads the Stage handsomely, he pronounces his Words with a Grace, and speaks his Part admirably well, he has the Garb, the Gesture and Countenance of a very honest Man, of an Israelite indeed, in whom is no Guile, he looks like the Tombs and Monuments of the Dead, which are set off with a great deal of Cost and Charge, appear Beautiful, and make a goodly Show, but within are full of dead men's Bones, of Rottenness and Corruption; for he has not so much as one of those good Qualities he pretends to; take him but into the tiring Room, strip him, and lay aside his Robes, pull off his Mask and Vizard, that Paint and Fucus, which he lays on with so much Art and Cunning, he will then be seen as he is, a deformed shrivelled Piece, a miserable Spectacle indeed; and yet for all that, he hopes he shall come off very well, and claps and applauds himself: And therefore in the next place we shall consider, what grounds he has for his hopes, and from whence they do proceed.  
First, Then the Hypocrites Hopes may proceed from this; he has found by long experience, That his bare Pretences to Virtue, have served his turn very well in this World, promoted his Interest, and been as advantageous to him, as if it had been real: He has acquired it may be, a great Estate, Honours, and Preferments, by the appearance of being a good Man, got his Father's Blessing by the smoothness of his Carriage, sound Favour in the Eyes of his Prince, by Dissimulation and Flattery, and with Absolom, stolen the Hearts of all the People, by his fair Speeches; his courteous and obliging Behaviour, his Honesty, such as it is, as far as he knows, has never been Mistrusted; and he hope still to carry on the Cheat, to deceive Heaven, as well as he has done Man, and concludes, That the same Arts which have Enabled him to go beyond his Brother, may do him the like Service, in Over-Reaching and Abusing of his God.  
He has been Blest with the Fat of the Earth, and the Dew of Heaven; the Sun has Shined as Warmly, and the Showers of Rain, Refreshed him as much, as the best of his Neighbours; he prospers in the World, and has Riches in Possession, and he cannot but look upon such Blessings, as an earnest of some future Favour. By the large share he has of the things of this Life, he judges what proportion he may expect in the next, and from every lucky hit, still draw this inference, That he who has been so Fortunate, and had so much Goods laid up for many years here, must have some Happiness hereafter, at least a Child's Portion in Reversion.  
But suppose the worst; seeing the Tares grow together with the Wheat, he hopes that at the general Harvest he may be thrown into the Barn among the other Sheaves; that the Counterfeit may not be discerned in so great a heap of Precious Stones; that the goodness of the Foil may give it such a Lustre, that it may sparkle even in the Eyes of God himself, and pass without suspicion, when he comes to make up the fairest of his Jewels.  
Secondly, The Hypocrite may hope upon this account. His constant endeavours have been to set himself handsomely off, to acquire all the outward visible signs of Piety and Holiness, without any regard to the inward purity of his Heart, and he has been so long used to dissemble with others, that he has even forgot to deal honestly and sincerely with himself.  
The foolish Actor, who was to personate a King, when he saw himself surrounded with Guards and Attendance, with all the pomp and solemnity of a Court, though he had not one Royal Quality or Princely Virtue, nothing of that largeness of Soul, none of those generous and noble Thoughts, which are absolutely necessary to so considerable a Dignity, to so high a Calling: He began to fancy that he was born for some great Designs, that he was cut out for a Crown, and really was the mighty Person he represented. So our Religious Player, though he has none of the qualifications of a Saint, nor any Truth in his inward Parts. Tho he is utterly a stranger to all the great Duties of Religion, and never hearty bewailed or truly repent of any of the Errors of his life, yet he has worn the Robes of Righteousness so long, that from the colour of his Habit he judges of the cleanness of his Heart; from the whiteness of his Garments, that he has kept himself unspotted from the World; and at last is given up to the strongest of Delusions, to believe himself, and concludes with the proud Pharisee, That he is not as other Men are; That God cannot forget to be gracious to him, but will accept his person, and receive him into his mercy and favour.  
Thirdly, The Hypocrite may hope, imagining that there is some recompense due, to the good Figure He has made in the World, and that there is something of merit, even in his dissimulation. Religion in his opinion gets some credit, by the respect Men only seem to pay it. It is one proof of his virtuous Inclinations, that he hides and conceals his Vices, and surely think He, the outward Expressions of Piety, the borrowed disguise of Devotion, has a better Title to forgiveness, than down right Atheism and Profaneness; a counterfeit zeal for the service of God, such a one as Naaman's in the house of Rimmon, must be much less offensive, than to kick at his Sacrifices, pollute his Sanctuary, and Convert that Holy Place, into an House of Merchandise, a den of Thiefs.  
For thus he may be willing to justify and argue for Himself: He constantly frequents the Church, no Man comes with more reverence and humility, or cries louder, Lord, Lord, than He doth, He fasts twice in the week, and makes little or no provision for the flesh, He is nicely Exact in observing all the minutest circumstances of the Law: had rather starve than gather a few Sticks, rather perish with Hunger than pluck a few Ears of Corn on the Sabbath Day; He gives Tithes of all that He possesses; It is a weighty matter, in his Opinion, to scruple the payment of so just a Debt, a robbing of God Himself; and He would not be guilty of Sacrilege, no not in that sense, for all the World; He gives alms, and has lent considerable Sums unto the Lord, and believes He has put his Money into good hands: He never turns so much as his Face from any poor Man, and he trusts that the Face of the Lord, shall never be turned away from him.  
For his part, He cannot but think, he has contributed some thing to the honour of God, and the Interest of Religion; and could wish there were many more such Hypocrites as he is; That all our Leopards would rather conceal their Spots, and our Ethiopians change their Skins, than that they should publish their Transgressions, make their Crimes their Reputation, declares their Sins as Sodom, and Glory in their shame.  
Thus the Hypocrite, though he has not lived up to the strictest Rules of our most holy Religion, nor made his Heart bend to the severer Precepts of the Gospel, yet for as much as his good deeds, have been transacted in the sight o fall the People, and in the face of the Sun, and his bad ones in his secret chambers, or in those darker recesses of his Soul: That his life may have been exemplary, and the Copy taking, seeing no Man knows the defects of the Original; That he has brought as he vainly dreams, no blemish to his Profession, nor done any public dishonour to his God; Tho He cannot pretend to that great Reward, due to the sincere, honest, and good Heart, to them that have born the heat and burden of the Day; yet he sees no reason why he may not hope for his Penny in the Evening; why He may not gather up some of the crumbs that fall from his Master's Table; why God may not dispense with a Commutation, and accept the formality of holiness, for real and substantial Virtue and Religion.  
These may be some of the Reasons, which the Hypocrite gives for the ho's that are in him, These the Reeds on which He loans, the feeble props which shore up his tottering Expectations; for after all the poor Apologies he can make for himself, He is in a lost and undone condition, he must be miserable, he and all his hopes must Sink and Perish together, and that for these following Reasons.  
All he aimed at, in the whole course of his Life, was to be popular, to insinuate himself into the good esteem, and to get the praise and commendation of Men, That was the recompense he principally had an Eye to, and having had that in so large a measure, he ought not to expect or hope for any other. Had the Cardinal as he too late considered, served his God, as faithfully as he did his Prince, He would never have cast him off in his old Age, nor have forsaken him when he was Gray-headed. Had the Hypocrite courted the favour of Heaven. with as much earnestness, as he did the applause of the World, had he been as ambitious of the Glory of God, as of the fair Character of his fellow Servants, he might have enlarged his desires, and promised himself; even all those good things, which God hath prepared for them, that sincerely love and truly fear Him: But seeing that all his good Works, were done upon no other account, but to be seen of Men that that was the Grand design and drift of all his actions, and that he made that his chief end, God has made it so too, he verily has had his reward, and must never look for more; he has had his Reward: It is indeed, one of the most terrible Sentences in all the Scriptures, and as the Learned interpret, imports thus much, He has received all that was due unto him; he has given God a Discharge, subscribed an Acquittance in full satisfaction, and can never in reason, or justice, demand and thing further from him.  
But then again; The Hypocrites hopes must Perish, for he provokes & affronts God as much as the most lewd and profligate sinner living He professes a great reverence for him, it is part he tells you of his Creed, That God is present every where, that he searches the Heart, and darts his Eyes into every corner of his Soul, and yet he uses him worse than he would do the meanest Man, and securely acts the greatest Villainies, under his Eye, which he would tremble to commit, under the inspection of the poorest Child.  
So that let the Hypocrite pretend never so much to believe, There is something of Atheism in his Heart; for without that he might dissemble with Men and Angels, but never du●●● entertain one thought of prevaricating with his God, of putting such tricks upon him, as Michol did upon Saul, of deluding him with an Image, with a Puppet neatly dressed, in-instead of a David, with a demure formal Saint in the place of a Man after his own Heart, and after his own Will.  
Certainly, this must be a Sin of the very first magnitude God is in Honour concerned to vindicate Himself, to cut off the hopes of such a wicked wretch, to make so daring a Sinner, a dreadful monument of his Fury and Indignation.  
But supposing our Hypocrite not Atheistically inclined, That he is no stranger to the Principles of Religion, that he believeth in his Heart, that God regardeth not the outward behaviour of any Man, when his inward parts are full of wickedness; and then let him tell me, what he thinks of his own condition, what ground he has to hope for the Mercy and Favour of God, with whom, he has dealt so basely and unworthily. Will not his own Heart tell him, that his state is as desperate, as that of the losest Libertine, will it not sink within him at the approaches of Death. The very mention of Hell make him Startle, fancy himself already there, imagine that he smells the Brimstone and sees the Flames flashing in his Face? and than what will become of all his hopes, will not his first Reflections on the place of Torments, fill him with black and melancholy Thoughts, and make his passage out of this Life very uneasy and very uncomfortable.  
Lastly, vain are the hopes of the Hypocrite, and all his fair pretensions to the happiness of another Life must fail and come to nothing, because the Punishments, of a peculiar Tophet, are ordained of old, and prepared for him in the World to come.  
A Hypocrite among the Turks would willing compound for the easy pains of a Purgatory, for they believe that there are seven Caverns or Vaults in Hell, and assign the lowest and hottest for all such double Dealers and Dissemblers; The Jews tell us that at the general Resurrection, every body shall be forgiven, but Men of Gibeon; those vile Hypocrites, who with their old clouted Shoes, and ragged Apparel imposed upon their Governor Joshua, But if we suspect their Authority, Christ himself assures us, He who cannot lie has told told us, that Hypocrites have a place of their own, a Portion that does properly belong to them, where there is nothing but weeping and gnashing of Teeth. He thunders out woe after woe against them, no less than eight times in the 23d Chapter of St. Matt. And if Pharo's Dream was doubled unto him, to show that the thing was Established, and that God would surely bring it to pass; may we not very well conclude, that the Repetition of those Woes against Hypocrites, bespeaks the severity of their future Punishments, and that the everlasting Furnace shall be above seven times hotter for them, than for any other Transgressor's. And indeed, it is but just with God to use them severely, who have not dealt truly with Him. That they should receive some special Mark of his just Resentments and Displeasure, that they should for ever lie down in their shame and cover themselves with their own Confusion, that they and even all their better hopes should unavoidably Perish.  
And now as for the more particular hopes and expectations of our arbarous and inhuman Enemies, indeed they promised themselves to do a very great and glorious Work, to kill and take possession of all; To suppress our Religion, and Establish their Idolatrous Worship, to wrest the Sword out of his Majesty's Hands, to make themselves absolute Masters of this Country and set up a King of their own; and when they were well fleshed and blooded, they made no doubt of Transporting▪ their victorious Arms into England, of making that Kingdom such another Shambles, and not leaving the Memorial of the English Name under Heaven.  
How far those Instruments of Cruelty, might have prevailed, to what a height they might have swelled the Rivers of that Land too with blood, had not an over ruling Providence interposed and stayed their hands, who in three Months had turned this Island of Saints into a Wilderness of ravening Woles; Murdered and destroyed an hundred and fifty thousand Souls, God knows.  
But blessed be his holy Name; Their hopes were in agreat measure Baffled and Defeated, and we have yet a Gracious King, a Nursing Father to the same Church, they then made such Havoc of, and Persecuted with so much Rage and Violence. That Vine which Gods own Right Hand hath Planted, Flourishes in the Land, and after that excellent way which they still call Heresy; we even now Worship the God of our Fathers.  
And for those great Incendiaries and Promoters of that unnatural Rebellion, those Blood thirsty and Deceitful Men, who would not that the English Monarches should Reign over them; Few of them lived out half their Days, or went down to their Graves in Peace, their Cruelties have been Repaid unto their own Bosoms, as they have done, so God hath Rewarded them.  
And now if there be any Persons here present, who persist in the same Designs, act under the same Disguises, and truly bear Witness, that they allow the Deeds of their Fathers, what can become of all their Hopes, either in this World or in that which is to come? God forbidden that we should prescribe any Bounds to his Infinite Goodness and Mercy, but without true and unfeigned Repentance, we may without breach of Charity Conclude, That they who have been Saints only in show, shall be saved only in appearance, that their Expectations are all mere Notion; Their hopes a Golden Dream, and that they of all Men shall be most Miserable.  
But let us who have better Principles be persuaded to act honestly and sincerely in all things, to let our Thoughts be always agreeable to our Words, our words consistent with our actions, to retrieve again if possible, that plainness and openness of Heart, which a few years ago seemed to be the best part of our Tempers and Constitutions, to take care, that there be no secret Hypocrisy lurking in our Hearts, nothing of Judas his design, mixed with our concerns, for the poor of Jezebel's with our Fasts, of the Scribes and Pharisees with our long Prayers.  
An Hypocrite I told you signified an Actor, or a Player, and now must add, that the Play will shortly be done, and we must all take our leaves of the Stage for ever. A time will certainly come, when our Masks & Veils shall be pulled off, all our Habits and Disguises laid aside, and we shall have no more Cloaks for our Sin, but shall appear in our own Shapes and Colours, the same wicked Persons; we were behind the Curtain; and all our Iniquities shall be openly exposed to the Eyes of God, Angels and Men.  
It will then be strictly enquired, not how long we have Lived, but how Well, not in what Pomp and Splendour, but in what Religion and Devotion; not what Estates and Fortunes we have left behind us, but what Souls and Consciences we have brought along with us, and happy then shall we be: If we are able to say with good Hezekiah, Remember O Lord we beseech thee, that we have walked before thee in Truth and with perfect Hearts; That so we may at the last hear the Music of that blessed Euge. Well done Good and Faithful Servants, enter you into the joy of your Master, Amen and Amen.  
FINIS.