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"Alas!" I exclaimed, "you did, sir. I cannot fully tell how deeply your action wounds and affects me." "Tournebroche," replied he sternly, "you speak like a Pharisee. One of the fathers, as amiable as he was austere, has said: 'Turn your eyes on yourself and take care not to judge the doings of others.
The parable of "The Pharisee and the Publican," describes two men who went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee prayed with himself, thus, "God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican. I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all I possess."
The only queen it has known since that awful night twenty-three years ago, when my faith, hope, charity were all strangled in an instant by the velvet hand I had kissed in my doting fondness the only queen my heart has acknowledged since then, is one who, in her purity soars like an angel above you and me, and her dear name is Edna Earl." "Edna Earl! a puritanical fanatic! Nay, a Pharisee!
A difference exists in the nature and atrocity of our respective crimes we have run to greater or less extravagances of iniquity our sins are more or less notorious, more or less limited or extensive in their influence on others; more or less aggravated by knowledge, by vows, and by repetition indulged in for a longer or a shorter period, as there was a great diversity of moral character between the Pharisee and the woman; but "all have sinned, and, come short of the glory of God" all have incurred debt and it is important to remark, that all are equally incapable of discharging it of atoning for their guilt, or rescuing themselves from the pains and penalties they have incurred.
I am not against extempore prayer, for I believe it to be the best kind of praying; but yet I am jealous, that there are a great many such prayers made, especially in pulpits and public meetings, without the breathing of the Holy Ghost in them: For if a Pharisee of old could do so, Why may not a Pharisee do the same now?
Such exclusiveness is simply a form of that pride, justify or explain it as you will, which found its fullest embodiment in the Jewish Pharisee the evil thing that Christ came to burn up with his lovely fire, and which yet so many of us who call ourselves by his name keep hugging to our bosoms I mean the pride that says, "I am better than thou."
His lady adopted extreme views, but was greatly respected in the sect which she joined; and when I saw her last, talked to me of possessing a peculiar spiritual illumination, which I strongly suspected at the time to be occasioned by the too free use of liquor: but I remember when she and her husband were good to me and mine, at a period when sympathy was needful, and many a Pharisee turned away.
"Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law, a Pharisee," all these I wrap together in one bundle, and toss them behind me that I may be the better able to help some to whom they would have hindered my access. A man with a heart will throw off his silken robes that his arm may be bared to rescue, and his feet free to run to succour.
Probably Bunyan alludes to this awful instance of fell despair in his Publican and Pharisee: 'Sin, when appearing in its monstrous shape and hue, frighteth all mortals out of their wits, away from God; and if he stops them not, also out of the world. To arm Bunyan against being overcome by a fear of the lions in the way to the house Beautiful against giving way, under persecution he was visited with terrors lest he should sell or part with Christ.
His ignorance is more charming than all knowledge, and his little sins more bewitching than any virtue. His flesh is angels' flesh, all alive. All day, between his three or four sleeps, he coos like a pigeon-house, sputters and spurs and puts on his faces of importance; and when he fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him."
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