[Sidenote: Hypocrites may in a respect loath themselves for sin.] _I answer_, It is possible for an _Hypocrite_ to be sorry for some _sins_, and to be angry with _himselfe_, and to loath himselfe, but not properly for his _sins_, which he loveth, but (as _theeves, whores, drunkards, &c._) for the _danger_, _damage_ and _disgrace_ which his sin may bring upon him. It is onely the property of _Gods children_ to look at _sin_ as _sin_, with a loathing _eye_, and to behold themselves _vile_ and _loathsome_, even for the most _pleasing_ and _profitable_, and _delightfull_, and most _secret sins_. [Sidenote: _Fourthly._] [Sidenote: True selfe denyall.] Fourthly, It is an _Argument_ of the _strength_ of _Spirituall life_, when we lay downe our selves at the feet of _God_, when as a _Servants will_, our _wils_ are subdued to the _Lords will_, when the _Lord_ is become our _selfe_, when his _ends_ are our _ends_, which give us content and _pleasure_, although our _selves_, our _ends_ are lost and destroyed, that wee may finde new _ends_ and _delights_ in _God_. Hence _Epaphroditus_ to further the worke of the _Lord_ (_Phil. 2_) he regarded not his health, and consequently not his _life_; as a true _Souldier_ in the Service of his heavenly _King_ and _Captaine_. _Object._ But may not an _Hypocrite_ deny himselfs; his owne _ends_, his _pleasures_, his _profits_, his _credit_, his _liberty_, his _life_. [Sidenote: No Hypocrite can truly deny himselfe.] _I answer_, It is impossible; for all that he doth is still for _himselfe_: like _Israel_, _Hosea_ 7. He is an _empty vine_, he bringeth forth fruit to _himself_: All that he aims at in using the name of _God_, his _glory_, his _Christ_, is still to exalt _himselfe_, to save _himselfe_: But _Gods children_ eye ever a greater _end_ then _selfe_, to wit, the glorifying of their _God_, although it be in their own _destructions_. [Sidenote: _Fifthly._] Fifthly, Our hearts are then in an healthfull frame and disposition, when we are _cordially_ willing to goe from hence, that we may be with _Christ_, _Phil. 3_. yet for the service of _Christ_ and his _Saints_, we are cordially willing to stay in _hard_ and _difficult_ Service. _Object._ But may not an _Hypocrite_ desire to dye, and to be with _Christ_? _I answer_, An _Hypocrite_ may desire to dye, and to be with _Christ_ in a glorious _condition_, but no _Hypocrite_ can endure to dye, to be with _Christ_ in an holy and spirituall _condition_, free from _sin_: and therefore can he not endure uprightly, &c. to _worke_ for _Christ_ on _Earth_. [Sidenote: _Sixtly._] [Sidenote: Spirituall contentation in Gods will.]