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A plain discourse upon uprightness showing the properties and privileges of an upright man…A plain discourse upon uprightness shewing the properties and priviledges of an upright man…
A plain discourse upon uprightness showing the properties and privileges of an upright man / by Richard Steele ...A plain discourse upon uprightness shewing the properties and priviledges of an upright man / by Richard Steele ...
London: printed for E. Calvert, 1672
A Plain Discourse UPON UPRIGHTNESS. › Chapter 1 › Section 10
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SECTION. X.
And thus I have opened in some poor 1measure an upright heart. By all which (dearly Beloved) you may see the Absolute necessity of Regeneration: I mean, the through change of the heart, from the state of nature to the state of grace. For certainly mans heart by nature is false, and far from this uprightness described. How can the soul receive Christ Jesus as he is offered in his Gospel, or resign it ⟨p. 47⟩self to him without Regeneration; how can the heart of a sinful child of Adam, be either single, or sound, or pure, or perfect, or plain without Regeneration? what man will study, or practise Inward, Universal and constant Religion till he be Regenerated? Who will walk Before God, With God, After God, Like God, before his heart be changed? Alas these things are neither conceived by the mind, nor received by the will of a natural man: He is ignorant in them and an enemy to them. O Sirs, you must be new creatures, else all our treaty stands for nothing: we must still begin here, and can parley no further with you, unless you yield in this. Will ye be renewed in the Spirit of your mind? Would you give all the world for a new Heart? till then you are but rotten at the heart, you walk in a vain show: for all your talk against hypocrites, you are errand hypocrites, and shall be condemned as such, when those you have so reproached, shall be your judges and openly honoured before Angels and men. Those poor Mordecaies shall be royally arrayed, and you like proud Haman shall see it to the breaking of your hearts.
ANd thus I have opened in some poor 1measure an upright heart. By all which (dearly Beloved) you may see the Absolute necessity of Regeneration: I mean, the through change of the heart, from the state of nature to the state of grace. For certainly mans heart by nature is false, and far from this uprightness described. How can the soul receive Christ Jesus as he is offered in his Gospel, or resign it