HE is a pretender to those good qualifications of
which he is really destitute, and a disoembkr of those
vices which he secretly practises, lie is that in the
church, which a knave is in the stale. The one is
not fit for civil society ; nor the other for christian
coinmunion. Were he to appear in his real colors,
men would clap their hands at hiir?, and hiss him out
of his place. Therefore he paints liis face, like Jeze-
bel, with a varnish of goodly words, of sanctified looks,
of actions seemingly benevolent and devout. He
prays with great fluency of expression ; you would
think him an an^cl for fervency and rapture ; but it
ifl only iu the presence of otheis. K.\i^ N^iv^W!^\^-^



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wor<ls are flaming, his heart is ice. He gives alms in-
deed, hut must alwajs take witnesses upon it. He it
very punctual in going to church, where he seats him*
self in some remarkable corner, in order to attract all
€yes upon himself. He seems to be all attention and'
composure : he lifts up his hands and eyes in a reli-
gious manner ; or coV'ers his face, or heaves a sigfa,
or lends forth a p;roan. O how mightily he is impres-
sed with the sermon, if you believe his face; while,
in the meanwhile, he is induliL^i^sg his lusts, and hit
licart going out after his coveteousneas !

Wlieu he fasti? he assumes a sorrowful air, and a
disr-gurcd face; and is grieved for sin as much as th«
biih'ush when it hangs the head. When he is in reli-
gious company, he talks of hla experience, the plnguei
of his heart, and comjdains of the great decay of reli-
{',ion in the day. — He is a most uncharitable censurer
of others, while he practises far greater villanies liim-
self.
