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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. VIII.
I. Study Humility, Hab. 2. 4. Behold 1his soul which is lifted up, is not upright in him. Pride hath a great influence ⟨p. 162⟩into hypocrisy, and humility into uprightness. He that takes a pride in being counted Great or Good, no wonde• that he will put on the visor of more goodness than he hath. And on the other side, he that is content of an ordinary Reputation, will study to be sound, and not play the white Devil, to get applause. The humble man concludes, I am a very weak creature, and I am a very great sinner, and what care I for a golden name, and know I have but a leaden heart. Do but study the pure Law of God, and then study thy impure heart, and be proud if thou canst: where a truer heart than in Paul? yet he for his part is of Saints the least, of sinners the chief, although the Lord reckoned him greater than the greatest of the former, and less than the least of the latter. Humility and Integrity are born and dye together.
I. STudy Humility, Hab. 2. 4. Behold 1his soul which is lifted up, is not upright in him. Pride hath a great influence ⟨p. 162⟩into hypocrisie, and humility into uprightness. He that takes a pride in being counted Great or Good, no wonde• that he will put on the vizard of more goodness than he hath. And on the other side, he that is content of an ordinary Reputation, will study to be sound, and not play the white Devil, to get applause. The humble man concludes, I am a very weak creature, and I am a very great sinner, and what care I for a golden name, and know I have but a leaden heart. Do but study the pure Law of God, and then study thy impure heart, and be proud if thou canst: where a truer heart than in Paul? yet he for his part is of Saints the least, of sinners the chief, although the Lord reckoned him greater than the greatest of the former, and less than the least of the latter. Humility and Integrity are born and dye together.