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…

2. Uprightness is amiable to men. Where enmity to God hath not quite razed ⟨p. 159⟩out all relics of Reason and Honesty, every man seems to be pleased with integrity; and will speak for such as they think in their Consciences mean and speak uprightly. Few would hurt us, if we could more sincerely be followers of that which is good. But an hypocrite is odious to all men, like those Proto-hypocrites, 1 Thes. 2. 15. They please not God, and are contrary to all men. He makes an ill choice that embraces a course, that God and man are agreed to abhor.

2. Uprightness is amiable to men. Where enmity to God hath not quite raz'd ⟨p. 159⟩out all reliques of Reason and Honesty, every man seems to be pleas'd with integrity; and will speak for such as they think in their Consciences mean and speak uprightly. Few would hurt us, if we could more sincerely be followers of that which is good. But an hypocrite is odious to all men, like those Proto-hypocrites, 1 Thes. 2. 15. They please not God, and are contrary to all men. He makes an ill choice that imbraces a course, that God and man are agreed to abhor.

2. Uprightness is Comfortable. A sound upright good Conscience, is a continual feast. In troubles, reproaches, sickness, death, no comfort like an upright heart. This will support the spirits, supply with new spirits the weather-beaten Christian, and make him sing in prison, when his enemies shall tremble on the Throne. This gave the Apostle Paul that boldness before Princes, that he lived in all good Conscience. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy righteous judgments. And on the contrary, a man hath no comfort from hypocrisy, none at all. What joy can a man have, when he knows his heart is rotten? What comfort in a velvet patch, when it only covers a filthy ulcer? What content, when