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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.
II. The Nature of this Uprightness of 1Heart, is best discerned by those expressions used by the Holy Ghost concerning it, which have been partly observed already, and shall be reduced to these five following. It is
II. THe Nature of this Uprightness of 1Heart, is best discern'd by those expressions us'd by the Holy Ghost concerning it, which have been partly observ'd already, and shall be reduc'd to these five following. It is
- 1§. 6. The nature of Uprightness.
1. Single without Division. 2. Sound without Rottenness. 3. Pure without Mixture. 4. Perfect without Reservation. 5. Plain without Guile.
1. An Upright heart is Single without Division. Unto an hypocrite, there be Gods many, and Lords many, and he must have a heart for each: but to the upright there is but one God the Father, and one Lord Jesus Christ, and one heart will serve them both. He that fixes his heart upon the Creatures, for every Creature he must have an heart, and the dividing of his heart destroys him, Hos. 10. 2. worldly profits knock at door, he must have an heart for them; carnal pleasures present themselves, he must have an heart for them also; sinful preferments appear, they must have an heart too; Necessariorum numerus parvus, opinionum nullus. Of necessary ⟨p. 21⟩