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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 13
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. XIII.
II. The Object of an Upright life follows, which is
II. THe Object of an Upright life follows, which is
1. Words. 2. Deeds or Actions.
1. The Upright man is sincere in his words, 1Ps. 15. 2. He walketh uprightly and speaketh the truth in his heart. His heart is inditing a good matter, and thereof his tongue is the pen of a ready writer. And indeed that is the genuine use of words, to be the interpreters of the heart and mind. And therefore that is a black brand set on our Neighbour Nation, that they use not to sing as they prick, nor to read as they write, nor to speak as they think; which if true, would render their society more intolerable, than the brutes themselves. The upright man perhaps cannot speak elegantly but he can speak truly; he cannot flourish his letters, but he can write a plain Secretary; and his words you may believe, more than others oaths. If you would see a fuller view of him as who would not delight in such