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…

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.

O but 2. I have experience of Decays in my soul, and no growth. The path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day. I •eel my self rather worse every way, but not better.

O but 2. I have experience of Decayes in my soul, and no growth. The path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day. I •eel my self rather worse every way, but not better.

Resol. 1. It is not easy to determine of spiritual growth or decays; For its object ⟨p. 173⟩is various: some grow more visibly in zeal, others in knowledge, others in stability, some more in the roots, some more in the bulk, some more in fruit. And then to discern growth, is a work of time: our progress in grace, is not so discernible as our entrance; for the change here is specific, there only gradual; and the younger children are, the more is