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…

And it is recorded that Cicero, when dying and reflecting on his warping and temporizing, he cried out, O me miserum, O me nunquam felicem, &c. Sincerity and Serenity live and dye together.

And 2. With Eternal Glory. There he pays home the upright man for all. When his God leads him into the Land of Uprightness, Psal. 143. 10. there he shall meet with all Gods hidden ones, of whom the world was not worthy. Ah poor hypocrite! he knows not what to do, when he dyes; each step he takes is towards Hell; the longer he lives, the nearer his destruction, Job 27. 8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite though he hath gained (wealth, repute, &c.) when God hath taken away his soul? Their very hope, which is all the comfort that's left them, will flee away and leave them in the briars. But then the upright man shall be some body. Here he is a Prince unknown, there he enters his kingdom. Here he is under a cloud, there the righteous shall shine as the Sun for ever and ⟨p. 121⟩ever. As he that hath an Estate in Reversion, though he live poor a while, yet the Estate will fall, An inheritance uncorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away; and this as sure as God is in Heaven, and thy name in the Bible, Genes. ¹17. 1. Walk before me, and be perfect: I will be thy exceeding great reward. Who can desire more than him that is All? It will be merry, when the upright God and the upright Man, do meet. Art thou he that received my dear Son, and resigned thy heart so freely to him? Art thou he that gave inward, universal, and constant obedience to my will? Art thou he that stuck to me in such and such times and trials? Art thou he that walked righteously, and spake the truth in thy heart? Come up hither, Angels put on his Crown, sing an Anthem ye sons of the morning at my upright servants coming home. Come enter thou into the joy of the Lord. Here live, and love, and rejoice for ever.