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…

Uprightness and Watchfulness are Catholic graces, of a general necessity; the former, to wit, Uprightness, to the Being and Truth of Grace, and the latter, to wit, Watchfulness, to the Preservation and Exercise of Grace. And belike on that account, sincerity is called a Girdle, Ephes. 6. 14. having your loins girt about with truth. Religion is to many as a Cloak, ⟨p. 14⟩(though it will prove the dearest Cloak that ever was worn) which they can put on abroad, when it serves their purposes, and put off at home when it troubles them in their lusts; but now sincerity is like a Girdle, that ties it close to us. This makes all our Garments sit close to us, and to be ungirt here is to be unblest. And may be thus described.

Uprightness and Watchfulness are Catholick graces, of a general necessity; the former, to wit, Uprightness, to the Being and Truth of Grace, and the latter, to wit, Watchfulness, to the Preservation and Exercise of Grace. And belike on that account, sincerity is called a Girdle, Ephes. 6. 14. having your loyns girt about with truth. Religion is to many as a Cloak, ⟨p. 14⟩(though it will prove the dearest Cloak that ever was worn) which they can put on abroad, when it serves their purposes, and put off at home when it troubles them in their lusts; but now sincerity is like a Girdle, that ties it close to us. This makes all our Garments sit close to us, and to be ungirt here is to be unblest. And may be thus described.

Uprightness of heart is that Grace, or gracious temper, whereby the soul is unreservedly resigned to God, and heartily bent to walk with him without guile. In short, when one is A man after Gods own heart: for Truth is nothing but an agreement of things with their first Principles, so that the Heart agreeing plainly with the Heart and Will of God, is an upright heart.