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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.
SECT. III.
Doctrine. Where God doth find an upright man, he shows himself an upright God.
Doctrine. Where God doth find an upright man, he shews himself an upright God.
True, he finds none but whom he makes, he finds them of his own making; but where-ever such a man is found, on the Throne, or in a Prison, or on a Dunghill, he shall find a God of his own, that will deal uprightly with him. However, he is an upright God, let men be what they will; whatever contrary motions the lower spheres have, yet the Primum mobile keeps its even and constant motion, and is never diverted out of its course at all: so is it with our God, let vain hypocrites walk never so crookedly, yet the holy God will be justified when he speaketh, and clear when he judgeth. He will be upright with you in executing his threatenings, if you hinder the current of his uprightness in performing Promises. The filthy Dunghill cannot infect the glorious Sun that shines all day upon it, nor can any mans Evil, cause him to cease from being Good. But the meaning of the Point is, to the upright man he shows himself a graciously upright God; a true-hearted man on earth, shall find a true-hearted God in Heaven.