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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.
SECT. VI.
Secondly, To those that are in Doubt, 1whether they be upright or no. It is better indeed to doubt with a cause, than to be confident without a cause: and better to begin in doubts, and end in certainties, 2than to begin in certainties, and end in doubts. But take advice;
SEcondly, To those that are in Doubt, 1whether they be upright or no. It is better indeed to doubt with a cause, than to be confident without a cause: and better to begin in doubts, and end in certainties, 2than to begin in certainties, and end in doubts. But take advice;
- 1§. 6. Exhortation to the Doubtful.
- 2The road to Resolution lies by doubt: The next way home's the farthest way about.The road to Resolution lyes by doubt: The next way home's the farthest way about.
1. Sit not down quiet in this uncertainty. Who that's charged with forgery, will be quiet till he be cleared? In the Authority of Gods unerring word, I charge all men by nature with rottenness, corruption, 1