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Hypocrisy
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
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In the olden times even the best rooms were usually of bare brick or stone, damp, and moldy, but over these in great houses when the family was resident, were hung up arras or hangings of rich materials, between which and the wall persons might conceal themselves, so that literally walls had ears. It is to be feared that many a brave show of godliness is but an arras to conceal rank hypocrisy; and this accounts for some men's religion being but occasional, since it is folded up or exposed to view as need may demand. Is there no room for conscience to pry between thy feigned profession and thy real ungodliness, and bear witness against thee? Remember, if conscience do it not, certainly 'the watcher and the Holy One' will make a thorough search within thee.
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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Hypocrisy'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fff/h/hypocrisy.html. 1870.
