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…

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⟩objects, the number is few, of needless vanities, the number is endless: The upright man hath made choice of God and hath enough.

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 destroyes 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⟩objects, the number is few, of needless vanities, the number is endless: The upright man hath made choice of God and hath enough.

A single Christ is enough for a single heart; hence holy David prays, Psal. 86. 11