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. But how should I know I love him best?

Answ. Hath he, if not the most, yet the heartiest of your thoughts? When ⟨p. 144⟩your ends are raffled to the bottom, do they end at him, or self? ^*do you love the hours and duties that tend towards him? Are not you troubled that you can love him no more? is not Heaven it self desirable to you on this account, because there you will love him and hate sin, perfectly, and eternally? can you delight in your mercies, when you fear they come not in love? can you live contentedly, under the sense or fear of his absence or displeasure? in a word, doth that please you best, that tends and ends in his honour, though it shame your persons, or cross your other designs? do you dearly affect his blessed word, and those parts thereof that have nothing to commend them to you, but their holiness? not only the Histories of the Bible, but the Doctrine, the Precepts of the Bible: Can you taste more sweetness in a Sermon of Christ, an Epistle of Paul, the hundred and nineteenth Psalm, than in any human writings in the world? Doth the remembrance of your communion with God, and communication from him, more refresh you than the review of other delights? Cant. 1. 4. We will remember thy love more than wine, the upright love thee. That is a sign of love, this is a sign of uprightness.

Answ. Hath he, if not the most, yet the heartiest of your thoughts? When ⟨p. 144⟩your ends are raffled to the bottom, do they end at him, or self? ^*do you love the hours and duties that tend towards him? Are not you troubled that you can love him no more? is not Heaven it self desirable to you on this account, because there you will love him and hate sin, perfectly, and eternally? can you delight in your mercies, when you fear they come not in love? can you live contentedly, under the sence or fear of his absence or displeasure? in a word, doth that please you best, that tends and ends in his honour, though it shame your persons, or cross your other designs? do you dearly affect his blessed word, and those parts thereof that have nothing to commend them to you, but their holiness? not only the Histories of the Bible, but the Doctrine, the Precepts of the Bible: Can you taste more sweetness in a Sermon of Christ, an Epistle of Paul, the hundred and nineteenth Psalm, than in any human writings in the world? Doth the remembrance of your communion with God, and communication from him, more refresh you than the review of other delights?