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…

Resol. 1. You must distinguish between Hypocrisy dwelling, and Hypocrisy reigning: where it only dwells, it is as gr• vel ⟨p. 171⟩in the shoe, as the mote in the eye, as the Soldier in his Quarters, you are weary of it, it makes you halt, you give it no rest, you are very sick of it: where it reigns you cannot endure to be touched or searched, and it orders your life and actions; your main design is, to cloak with God, and to cheat the world.

Resol. 1. You must distinguish between Hypocrisie dwelling, and Hypocrisie reigning: where it only dwells, it is as gr• vel ⟨p. 171⟩in the shoe, as the mote in the eye, as the Souldier in his Quarters, you are weary of it, it makes you halt, you give it no rest, you are very sick of it: where it reigns you cannot indure to be touch'd or search•d, and it orders your life and actions; your main design is, to cloak with God, and to cheat the world.

2. Conscience rightly informed may go far in this decision: But Conscience is not Regula regulans, but Regula regulata. Its like the Dial that must be set by the Sun of Gods word, and rightly determines only by virtue of that. And sometimes, such pangs and terrors overwhelm the Conscience, that then it is not a competent Judge of the cause. If every man whose Conscience pricks him, were an hypocrite; God help the greatest part of Conscientious Christians!

2. Conscience rightly inform'd may go far in this decision: But Conscience is not Regula regulans, but Regula regulata. Its like the Dial that must be set by the Sun of Gods word, and rightly determines only by vertue of that. And sometimes, such pangs and terrors overwhelm the Conscience, that then it is not a competent Judge of the cause. If every man whose Conscience pricks him, were an hypocrite; God help the greatest part of Conscientious Christians!