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…

'Tis true, he loses many an one by this plain dealing, whom he might have kept by his flattery; but these are better lost, ⟨p. 60⟩than kept, Job 32. 22. I know not, saith Elihu, to give flattering titles, in so doing my Maker would soon take me away. These acts are below a man, much more below a Christian; and generally there is unsoundness in the heart, or baseness in the ends of those that use them. Its true, a man may without any breach in his uprightness, give another his due praises, when there is just occasion so to do; but to exceed bounds herein, and that out of any base design, of procuring the like again, or for worldly profit, is very far from true sincerity. A false heart and a flattering tongue usually go together. Prov. 26. 23. Burning lips and a wicked heart, are like a potsherd covered over with silver dross. No man so likely to have a tongue, and a tongue, as he that hath an heart, and an heart.

'Tis true, he loses many an one by this plain dealing, whom he might have kept by his flattery; but these are better lost, ⟨p. 60⟩than kept, Job 32. 22. I know not, saith Elihu, to give flattering titles, in so doing my Maker would soon take me away. These acts are below a man, much more below a Christian; and generally there is unsoundness in the heart, or baseness in the ends of those that use them. Its true, a man may without any breach in his uprightness, give another his due praises, when there is just occasion so to do; but to exceed bounds herein, and that out of any base design, of procuring the like again, or for worldly profit, is very far from true sincerity. A false heart and a flattering tongue usually go together. Prov. 26. 23. Burning lips and a wicked heart, are like a potsheard cover'd over with silver dross. No man so likely to have a tongue, and a tongue, as he that hath an heart, and an heart.