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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.
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; Cant. 4. 7. Thou art fair, my love, sayes 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 coyn, dyeth the same death with a Rebel. A lukewarm Christian makes Christs stomach to rise, Rev. 3. 16. And
- 1P•ssima creaturarum visibilium est Homo degener; pessimus hominum pseudo-Christianus; Christianorum vero pessimus est nequam Verbi minister, Dr. Arrows.