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 then that you love the people of God, will be difficult to be proved. You like their company (perhaps) for some natural, moral, or acquired excellencies in them; they are well tempered, civil, learned, intelligent, or perhaps of some use or stead for you; but alas! you hate their holiness, and least like them when they are in their most religious frame. You care not for their talk of Heaven, when you are pleased with their news or discourses upon things on earth. He that loves an holy man for his Sanctity, loves them all as far as they are holy, and so the holier the person is, the better you will love him.

And then that you love the people of God, will be difficult to be proved. You like their company (perhaps) for some natural, moral, or acquired excellencies in them; they are well temper'd, civil, learned, intelligent, or perhaps of some use or stead for you; but alas! you hate their holiness, and least like them when they are in their most religious frame. You care not for their talk of Heaven, when you are pleas'd with their news or discourses upon things on earth. He that loves an holy man for his Sanctity, loves them all as far as they are holy, and so the holier the person is, the better you will love him.

Object. 2. Singular Obedience. I have performed abundance of Duties, and have forgone divers Sins, and have continued so to do a great while, and can an hypocrite do so?

Object. 2. Singular Obedience. I have perform'd abundance of Duties, and have forgone divers Sins, and have continued so to do a great while, and can an hypocrite do so?

Answ. Is there no known Duty that lies by you undischarged? and do you delight in the duties you perform, as well as do them? do the Precepts of the Law please you, as well as the Promises of the Gospel? And do you live in no known sin with purpose, pleasure and perseverance?