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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
A Plain Discourse UPON UPRIGHTNESS. › Chapter 1: Of the Uprightness of Man.
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.
CHAPTER I. Of the Uprightness of Man.
SECTION I.
HE that would be Wise, let him read the Proverbs; he that 1would be Holy, let him read the Psalms. Every line in this Book breaths peculiar Sanctity.
- 1Sect. 1. The context & coherence.
This Psalm, though placed among the •rst, was penned among the last, (as the preface assures us) and is left as the Epi•me of the General history of Davids life. ⟨p. 2⟩It is twice recorded in the Scripture, (2 Sam. 22. and in this Book of Psalms) for the Excellency and Sweetness thereof; surely that we should take double notice of it.
This Psalm, though plac'd among the rst, was penn'd among the last, (as the reface assures us) and is left as the Epime of the General history of Davids life.