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. Perhaps you'll say, they are bad (its true) in any, but they are intolerable in one that professes more Sanctity than others.

Object. Perhaps you'l say, they are bad (its true) in any, but they are intollerable in one that professes more Sanctity than others.

Answ. His sanctity or profession are neither faults nor faulty, but these you have an aching tooth at: and though they do aggravate his Sins before God, yet I hope with men he may pass better, that hath but one or two faults, than he that hath an hundred. And if you be not haters of God, you ought to love him better that hath a few errors, and those bewailed, (for so all upright men do, though you see them not) than him that abounds in them, and rather glories in them, than mourns over them

Answ. His sanctity or profession are neither faults nor faulty, but these you have an aking tooth at: and though they do aggravate his Sins before God, yet I hope with men he may pass better, that hath but one or two faults, than he that hath an hundred. And if you be not haters of God, you ought to love him better that hath a few errors, and those bewailed, (for so all upright men do, though you see them not) than him that abounds in them, and rather glories in them, than mourns over them

Object. I know your usual saying, you dislike none but hypocrites, an upright man you could love in your heart.