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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 Subject cannot always see the Reason of his Princes method, no nor a child his fathers; but when they come to the knowledge of them, they magnify what before they were ready to misconstrue: Even so perhaps you understand not the ways of God towards you or his Church; but be silent before him, for you shall see at the long run, that with righteousness doth he judge the world, and the people with equity.
The Subject cannot alwayes see the Reason of his Princes method, no nor a child his fathers; but when they come to the knowledge of them, they magnifie what before they were ready to misconstrue: Even so perhaps you understand not the wayes of God towards you or his Church; but be silent before him, for you shall see at the long run, that with righteousness doth he judge the world, and the people with equity.
2. This Doctrine pronounces the Misery of all hypocrites. For it follows by the Rule of contraries, that with such froward pieces, God will show himself froward. He that walks contrary to God, shall have God to walk contrary to him. The way of hypocrisy, as well as of impenitency, is a way of contrariety to God, whose holy Law the hypocrite casts behind his back; it is a way of contrariety to Jesus Christ, his Prophetical Chair, his Priestly ⟨p. 125⟩Cross, and his Kingly Throne; and certainly God will walk contrarily unto them. He will out-wit the subtlest, and overthrow the stubbornest hypocrite on earth. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the 1froward is carried headlong. He that will wrestle with God, shall feel it first or last.
2. This Doctrine pronounces the Misery of all hypocrites. For it follows by the Rule of contraries, that with such froward pieces, God will show himself froward. He that walks contrary to God, shall have God to walk contrary to him. The way of hypocrisie, as well as of impenitency, is a way of contrariety to God, whose holy Law the hypocrite casts behind his back; it is a way of contrariety to Jesus Christ, his Prophetical Chair, his Priestly