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…

Doubt 4. My sad Experience, 1. of my Dryness in secret Duties. I am better in the assembly, than in my family, better in my family, than in my closet, and there an upright man is best. He that is enlarged and enlivened with others, and straitened in his own bowels, cannot be upright.

Doubt 4. My sad Experience, 1. of my Dryness in secret Duties. I am better in the assembly, than in my family, better in my family, than in my closet, and there an upright man is best. He that is enlarged and enlivened with others, and straitned in his own bowels, cannot be upright.

Resol. 1. The more company we have in Ordinances, the more enlargement we may ⟨p. 172⟩expect, and yet upright withal. Our Saviour himself when he saw the multitudes, it opened his mouth, Mat. 5. 1. and we read but few such Sermons from him as that was: for besides, that the numerousness and seriousness of others, is a rational means to quicken us that are about the same work; we may expect more of the manifestations of the Divine Presence, where the persons and graces of so many are, that are dear to God.

Resol. 1. The more company we have in Ordinances, the more inlargement we may ⟨p. 172⟩expect, and yet upright withall. Our Saviour himself when he saw the multitudes, it opened his mouth, Mat. 5. 1. and we read but few such Sermons from him as that was: for besides, that the numerousness and seriousness of others, is a rational means to quicken us that are about the same work; we may expect more of the manifestations of the Divine Presence, where the persons and graces of so many are, that are dear to God.