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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.
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VI. The Lord shows himself upright 1to the upright man, In directing him in his doubts, Prov. 11. 3. The integrity of the upright shall guide them. Many an upright man is under great doubts, and knows not what to believe or what to do. Arguments and pleas on both hands, Great men on one side, and Good men on another, (for seldom are they both on a side) likely reasons court his Assent either way. The commands of men sometimes countermanded by his Conscience, and he wants parts, learning, and judgement to cleave an hair, and state the case exactly, either of Faith or Fact. Now in this case, when he hath used the means of resolution, that he is capable of, the integrity of the upright shall guide him. His plain honest heart is neither suspicious of more evil to be in men, or things, then evidently appears; nor on the other side, doth he study extricating Salvo's, or subtle evasions to sleep with a whole skin, and salute the upper party: but according to his best knowledge, ⟨p. 104⟩he fixes his faith and orders his actions by the Rule of Gods Word, which he knows will best bear him out.
VI. THe Lord shews himself upright 1to the upright man, In directing him in his doubts, Prov. 11. 3. The integrity of the upright shall guide them. Many an upright man is under great doubts, and knows not what to believe or what to do. Arguments and pleas on both hands, Great men on one side, and Good men on another, (for seldom are they both on a side) likely reasons court his Assent either way. The commands of men sometimes countermanded by his Conscience, and he wants parts, learning, and judgement to cleave an hair, and state the case exactly, either of Faith or Fact. Now in this case, when he hath us'd the means of resolution, that he is capable of, the integrity of the upright shall guide him. His plain honest heart is neither suspicious of more evil to be in men, or things, then evidently appears; nor on the other side, doth he study extricating Salvo's, or subtle evasions to sleep with a whole skin, and salute the upper party: but according to his best knowledge,