A question has been asked, can a person be an hypocrite and not know it? I answer, no, by no means. Did not Saul know he was acting the hypocrite in his concession to David? Did not Judas know that he was planning to sell the Savour’s blood at the very time he eating the passover with him, and hearing his most heavenly discourses? Did not Jacob know he was deceiving his Father, when he said, “I am thy son Esau?” Did not David know that he was not mad, when he pretended to be so to save his life? Every person can tell, whether they most sincerely desire, from a feeling sense of need, a sense of pardoning mercy, and the enjoyment of God’s favour; or whether they profess religion for any other purpose, let it be what it will. It is to be lamented that many sincere characters have been guilty of hypocritical actions, and yet be sincere. Witness Abraham, Jacob, David and others. So also may hypocrites do many praise-worthy actions, and yet be hypocrites. Such are not real members, but mere excressences of the Church like falling hair or the parings of the nail. When Satan suggests to a believer, he is nothing but an hypocrite, his only remedy is by prayer and supplication to God, to make him sincere—and as to the world charging him with being an hypocrite, because they have fallen out with him, they are no judges neither of sincerity nor hypocrisy, only let us before God, the Church and the world, walk as consistently as possible, and let dogs bark on nor heed their howlings, the love of Christ in the heart will suffer that She nor desires, nor seeks to know The scandals of the time; Nor look with pride on those below, Nor envy those that climb. One of our old divines has reckoned up thirty-two different species of hypocrites, and if there are as many thousand, it is an awful proof that the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who but God knows it? But that the professing Church abound with it, is too evident; for instance:—