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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
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.
The Contents.
CHAP. I. OF the Uprightness of Man. Sect. 1. The Context. Page 1. Sect. 2. The Text opened. 4 Sect. 3. Doctrine. Where God doth find an upright man, he shows himself an upright God. 8 Sect. 4. What is uprightness. 9 Its Scripture Names. 1. Truth. ibid. 2. Sincerity. 10 3. Singleness of heart. 11 4. Integrity. 12 Sect. 5. Uprightness distinguished into 1. Uprightness of heart, where 14 1. The Ground of it. 15 1. Total receiving of Christ. ibid. 2. Total resigning to Christ. 17 Sect. 6. 2. The Nature of it. 20 1. Single without Division. ibid. 2. Sound without Rotten. 21 3. Pure without Mixture. 23 4 Perfect without Reservation 25 ⟨image 5⟩5. Plainness without Guile. 26 Sect. 7. 3. The Object about which it is conversant. 28 1. Inward Religion. ibid. 1. Obtaining invisible Graces. 29 2. Performing invisible Duties. 31 3. Avoiding invisible Sins. 32 Sect. 8. 2. Universal Religion. 33 1. Hating all Sin. 34 2. Loving all Duty. 35 Sect. 9. 3. Constant Religion. He walks 39 1. Before God. 43 2. With God. 44 3. After God. ibid. 4. Like God. 45 Sect. 10. An Inference, viz. The necessity of Regeneration. 46 Sect. 11. II. Uprightness of Life, where 1. Necessity of it. 49 Sect. 12. 2. Description of it. 1. In Simplicity. 52 2. In Purity. 53 3. In Perfection. 55 4. In Plainness. 56 Sect. 13. 3. The Object of it. 1. In words, being Opposite 58 1. To Flattering. 59 2. To Lying. 60 3. To Equivocations. 61 4. To Promise-breaking. 63 ⟨image 6⟩Sect. 14. 2. In Deeds, being Opposite 65 1. To Craftiness. 67 2. To Time-serving. 68 3. To Defrauding. 70 4. To All injustice. 72 Sect. 15. An Inference, viz. the Paucity of Upright men. 75