Hypocrisy and the rankest hypocrite (Thomas Adams)

[Reformed Covenanter]

He that clears himself from all sin, is the most sinner, and he that says, he hath not sinned in hypocrisy, is the rankest hypocrite …

Thomas Adams, The white devil, or The hypocrite uncased: In a sermon preached at Paul’s Cross, March 7. 1612 (London: Melchisedech Bradwood, 1613), p. 28.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

It is one thing for thee to possess sin, another thing for sin to possess thee. All have the same corruption, not the same eruption: in a word, all are not hypocrites, yet who hath not sinned in hypocrisy?

Thomas Adams, The white devil, or The hypocrite uncased: In a sermon preached at Paul’s Cross, March 7. 1612 (London: Melchisedech Bradwood, 1613), p. 28.