esteem; and the Publican, because he was an officer, was had the more
in reproach. To speak a little to both these:

1. The Pharisee was a sectarian; one that deviated, that turned
aside in his worshipping from the way of God, both in matter and
manner of worship; for such an one I count a sectarian. That he
turned aside from the matter, which is the rule of worship, to wit,
the written word, it is evident; for Christ saith, that they rejected
the commandments of God, and made them of no effect, that they might
keep their own traditions. That they turned aside also as to their
manner of worship, and became sectarians, there is with no less
authority asserted--"For all their works they do for to be seen of
men;" Acts xxvi. 5; Mark vii. 9-13; Matt. xxiii. 5.

Now this being none of the order or ordinance of Christ, and yet
being chosen by, and stuck to of these sort of men, and also made a
singular and necessary part of worship, became a sect, or bottom for
those hypocritical factious men to adhere unto, and to make of others
disciples to themselves. And that they might be admired, and
rendered 'venerable by the simple people to their fellows, they loved
to go in long robes; they loved to pray in markets, and in the
corners of the streets; they shewed great zeal for the small things
of the law, but had only great words for things that were
substantial--"They made broad their phylacteries, and enlarged the
borders of their garments;" Matt. xxiii.

When I say the Pharisee was a sectarian, I do not mean that every
sectarian is a Pharisee. There were the sects of the Herodians, of
the Alexandrians, and of the Sadducees, with many others; but to be a
Pharisee, was to be of the straitest sect: "After the most straitest