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…

Object. 1. General Approbation. I am well esteemed, and that among the best: If I were rotten, sure they would find me out. I love good people, and they love me, and how can I then be an hypocrite?¹

1. 1They that make the Queen believe that I counterfeit with her, cannot make God believe that I counterfeit with him. Earl of Essex to Sr […]. Bacon.They that make the Queen believe that I counterfeit with her, cannot make God believe that I counterfeit with him. Earl of Essex to Sr 〈…〉. B•con.

Answ. They judge of thee by the judgment of Charity, but God will judge thee with the judgment of Verity: They neither can, nor will, nor dare be censorious; but do guess thee to be sound within, because thou art smooth without. Their great work lies in assuring their own salvation, and not in questioning others; and so thou mayest go by them to hell unsuspected as Judas did by the Disciples; they never dreamed of his hypocrisy, ⟨p. 128⟩but rather suspected themselves, but this made not his case the safer.

Answ. They judge of thee by the judgment of Charity, but God will judge thee with the judgment of Verity: They neither can, nor will, nor dare be censorious; but do guess thee to be sound within, because thou art smooth without. Their great work lies in assuring their own salvation, and not in questioning others; and so thou maist go by them to hell unsuspected as Judas did by the Disciples; they never dream'd of his hypocrisie, ⟨p. 128⟩but rather suspected themselves, but this made not his case the safer.