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…

Thirdly, The Exhortation runs to ¹them that want it, Labour for uprightness: Buy this truth and sell it not. For the love of God be not hypocrites. Consider three things.

THirdly, The Exhortation runs to ¹them that want it, Labour for uprightness: Buy this truth and sell it not. For the love of God be not hypocrites. Consider three things.

1. 1§. 7. Exhortation to those that want uprightness.

1. Uprightness is Amiable. 1. In the eye of God; you see that in 1 Chron. 29. 17. He hath pleasure in uprightness. You that displease him by your Infirmities, had need to please him by your Integrity; Cant. 4. 7. Thou art fair, my love, says Christ, there is no spot in thee. This makes you all fair in his eyes. All the beauty of Heaven and Earth doth not please God as an upright man: no creature like the New creature. And on the contrary, no sight so odious ¹to him as an hypocrite. He that counterfeits the Kings coin, dyeth the same death with a Rebel. A lukewarm Christian makes Christs stomach to rise, Rev. 3. 16. And

1. Uprightness is Amiable. 1. In the eye of God; you see that in 1 Chron. 29. 17. He hath pleasure in uprightness. You that displease him by your Infirmities, had need to please him by your Integrity;