"How oft did I Hypocrisy and Hearts' deceits unmask Before your sight, giving you light to know a Christian's task? But you held fast unto the last your own conceits so vain, No warning could prevail; you would your own Deceits retain. LXXXVIII. [Sidenote: Psal. 78:34, 35, 36, 37.] "As for your care to get a share in Bliss; the fear of Hell, And of a part in endless smart, did thereunto compel. Your holiness and ways redress, such as it was, did spring From no true love to things above, But from some other thing. LXXXIX. [Sidenote: Zach. 7:5, 6. Isa. 58:3, 4. 1 Sam. 15:13, 21. Isa. 1:11, 15.] "You pray'd and wept, you Fast-days kept, but did you this to me? No, but for sin you sought to win the greater liberty. For all your vaunts, you had vile haunts, for which your Consciences Did you alarm, whose voice to charm you us'd these practices. XC. [Sidenote: Mat. 6:2, 5. John 5:44.] "Your Penitence, your diligence to Read, to Pray, to Hear, Were but to drown the clam'rous sound of Conscience in your Ear. If light you lov'd, vain glory mov'd yourselves therewith to store, That seeming wise men might you prize, and honor you the more. XCI. [Sidenote: Zech. 7:5, 16. Hos. 10:1.] "Thus from yourselves unto yourselves, your duties all do tend; And as self-love the wheels doth move, so in self-love they end." Thus Christ detects their vain projects, and close Impiety, And plainly shews that all their shows were but Hypocrisy. XCII. [Sidenote: Civil honest men's pleas. Luke 18:11.] Then were brought nigh a Company of Civil honest Men, That lov'd true dealing and hated stealing, ne'er wrong'd their Bretheren; Who pleaded thus: "Thou knowest us that we were blameless livers; No Whoremongers, no Murderers, no quarrelers nor strivers. XCIII. "Idolaters, Adulterers, Church-robbers we were none, Nor false dealers, nor cozeners, but paid each man his own. Our way was fair, our dealing square, we were no wasteful spenders, No lewd toss-pots, no drunken sots, no scandalous offenders. XCIV. [Sidenote: 1 Sam. 15:22.] "We hated vice and set great price, by virtuous conversation; And by the same we got a name and no small commendation. God's Laws express that righteousness is that which he doth prize; And to obey, as he doth say, is more than sacrifice. XCV. [Sidenote: Eccl. 7:20.] "Thus to obey hath been our way; let our good deeds, we pray, Find some regard and some reward with thee, O Lord, this day. And whereas we transgressors be, of Adam's race were none, No, not the best, but have confess'd themselves to have misdone." XCVI. [Sidenote: Are taken off and rendered invalid. Deut. 10:12. Tit. 2:12. Jam. 2:10.]