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…

2. An upright man is a great hater of Lying. A sin that is directly contrary to the nature of sincerity. I may not enlarge upon the kinds or aggravations of this sin: whole Sermons, yea Volumes are little enough to overthrow it, it is so common and so dangerous. If a lye will save their credit, few will lose it; if a lye will gain any thing, few will sit down ⟨p. 61⟩by loss; if a lye will shelter one from another's anger, thousands will venture the displeasure of the Eternal God, before that of a silly worm; and choose to have their Head broken, that their Helmet may be spared. O the woeful havoc of mens Consciences by this sin! now an upright man abhors a lye, he knows that the God of truth desires truth in the inward parts, and hath in him a particular Antipathy to this sin. Dress it in what clothes you will, call it a jesting lye, an officious lye, what lye you will; he likes it not, his heart rises against it, Psal. 119. 163. I hate and abhor lying, two words for failing, to show his great hatred of this sin. Be it with him or against him, the upright man will speak the truth. Whereas an hypocrite as he is nothing else but a Lye, so he can swallow them as fast as occasion serves. Poor man! thou wouldst not speak it, if the man that stands by thee saw into thy heart, and how darest thou speak it, when the holy and true God sees into thy heart, and can choke thee with thy dissembling words?

2. An upright man is a great hater of Lying. A sin that is directly contrary to the nature of sincerity. I may not inlarge upon the kinds or aggravations of this sin: whole Sermons, yea Volumes are little enough to overthrow it, it is so common and so dangerous. If a lye will save their credit, few will lose it; if a lye will gain any thing, few will sit down ⟨p. 61⟩by loss; if a lye will shelter one from anothers anger, thousands will venture the displeasure of the Eternal God, before that of a silly worm; and chuse to have their Head broken, that their Helmet may be spared. O the woful havock of mens Consciences by this sin! now an upright man abhors a lye, he knows that the God of truth desires truth in the inward parts, and hath in him a particular Antipathy to this sin. Dress it in what clothes you will, call it a jesting lye, an officious lye, what lye you will; he likes it not, his heart rises against it,