CONTENTS. 1st. Naboth's Vineyard; or, God's Vengeance against MONTHLY RELIGIOUS TRACTS VOL. I.-No. 1.] LONDON, MARCH 1, 1821, NABOTH'S VINEYARD, OR, [Price 3d. GOD'S VENGEANCE AGAINST HYPOCRISY 66 "And she wrote in the letters, saying Proclaim a fast, and set NABOTH on high among the people: and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying: "Thou didst blaspheme God and the King. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die." I Kings, Ch. XXI., V. 9, 10. ́ ́. HYPOCRISY, in the general acceptation of the word, is dissimulation, or deceit, with regard to virtuous thoughts and conduct, and especially with regard to religious matters. It is a pretending to feci what we do not feel, to believe what we do not believe, to practise what we do not practise. It is an odious vice: it is greatly mischievous, because, by assuming the garb of, it reflects, in the hour of detection, disgrace upon, virtue itself: it must be founded in evil, design, because it proceeds from cool deliberation and calculation: it includes lying and fraud: its natural tendency is to produce injury to our neighbour and to dishonour real religion: accordingly, Fourth Edition, Stereotyped. |