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. A sensible sight of your decays, is a true sign of growth; the clearer the sight, the less motes are discerned, when there ¹is joined withal a grief for our defects. Descendendo ascendimus, we grow higher in Gods esteem, by growing lower in our own. Corruption doth not usually discover corruption; nor decays, decays. If therefore you find, that you hate sin as heartily, and can wisely prevent it, that you can be fully as serious and spiritual in your duties, as wise in reproofs, though perhaps not so frequent as heretofore; you have no just cause to charge your self with decays, much less with dissembling in Religion.

2. A sensible sight of your decayes, is a true sign of growth; the clearer the sight, the less motes are discerned, when there ¹is joyn'd withall a grief for our defects. Descendendo ascendimus, we grow higher in Gods esteem, by growing lower in our own. Corruption doth not usually discover corruption; nor decayes, decayes. If therefore you find, that you hate sin as heartily, and can wisely prevent it, that you can be fully as serious and spiritual in your duties, as wise in reproofs, though perhaps not so frequent as heretofore; you have no just cause to charge your self with decayes, much less with dissembling in Religion.

1. 1We are like benumbed limbs, sometime• have life in us, but feel it not. Mr. Cap•l.

Yea, but 3. I have experience of Inconstancy; my soul is in a perpetual Ague, one while burning hot, another while key-cold; unconstant in avoiding evil, and ⟨p. 174⟩more unconstant in the performance of what is good; and this is an hypocrites temper, and this is mine.