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…

III. Get an hatred to hypocrisy; and a love of uprightness: Behold them both in their own colours. Read Mat. 23. That glass will show you the face of the one, and Psal. 119. will show you the features of the other. If you would put the worst ⟨p. 164⟩badge in the world upon a man, you call him Hypocrite: if you would give any man the most advantageous title, you write him an honest man, an upright man. And when once you hate Hypocrisy, you will flee it: when once you really love uprightness, you'll take pains to procure it. Shall I yield to that my soul hates? dwell in an house that I abhor? Isle never do it. May so rare a Jewel as Sincerity be had, and shall I live without it? shall it be offered me and I deny it? No, whatever it cost me I will not live or dye an hypocrite. Shall I be a Dunghill covered with Snow? how odious shall I be, when my snow-white mantle will be stripped off? Speak man of Reason; is Simulation lovely? Is Dissimulation amiable? Why wilt thou wear that ugly visor? For a Name in this World, lose a Soul in another? For a Shadow of Religion, lose the Substance of Salvation? A serious hatred of Hypocrisy, is not only a means to conquer it, but is a conquest of it. A hearty love to integrity, is Integrity.

III. Get an hatred to hypocrisie; and a love of uprightness: Behold them both in their own colours. Read Mat. 23. That glass will shew you the face of the one, and Psal. 119. will shew you the features of the other. If you would put the worst ⟨p. 164⟩badge in the world upon a man, you call him Hypocrite: if you would give any man the most advantageous title, you write him an honest man, an upright man. And when once you hate Hypocrisie, you will flee it: when once you really love uprightness, you'l take pains to procure it. Shall I yield to that my soul hates? dwell in an house that I abhor? Ile never do it. May so rare a Jewel as Sincerity be had, and shall I live without it? shall it be offered me and I deny it? No, whatever it cost me I will not live or dye an hypocrite. Shall I be a Dunghill covered with Snow? how odious shall I be, when my snow-white mantle will be stript off? Speak man of Reason; is Simulation lovely? Is Dissimulation amiable? Why wilt thou wear that ugly vizard? For a Name in this World, lose a Soul in another? For a Shadow of Religion, lose the Substance of Salvation? A serious hatred of Hypocrisie, is not only a means to conquer it, but is a conquest of it. A hearty love to integrity, is Integrity.