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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.
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.
2. But yet every upright man will be serious and hearty in secret, and earnest withal. He would not be hired out of his secret devotions: and a little truth and zeal in a closet, is more than the larger expressions of them with a multitude; what is done in secret, provided you do it of choice and in Conscience to God, hath more genuine features of real integrity; than much more in public, for that must needs proceed from the love of God and of his service.
2. But yet every upright man will be serious and hearty in secret, and earnest withall. He would not be hired out of his secret devotions: and a little truth and zeal in a closet, is more than the larger expressions of them with a multitude; what is done in secret, provided you do it of choice and in Conscience to God, hath more genuine features of real integrity; than much more in publick, for that must needs proceed from the love of God and of his service.