2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;



Ver. 2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy] It was grown to a common proverb, "A friar, a liar." One of them undertook to show a feather of the wing of the angel Gabriel. The pope, to honour and encourage Tyrone the rebel, sent him (but who will believe it?) a plume of Phoenix’s feathers. The poor people are persuaded to believe that the thunder of the pope’s excommunication hath so blasted the English heretics, that their faces are grown all black and ugly as devils; their eyes and looks ghastly, their breaths noisome and pestilent, that they are grown barbarous, and eat children, blaspheme God and all his saints.



Having their consciences seared] There is more hope of a sore, than of a seared, conscience, a dead and dedolent disposition, Eph_4:17-20, a heart that hath contracted a kind of hoof.