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. An Upright Heart is Sound without Rottenness, Psal. 119. 80. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I may not be ashamed. The more sincerity the less shame. Integrity is the great author of confidence. Every frost shakes an unsound body, and every trial shakes an unsound soul. An upright man hath not always so pure a colour as an hypocrite may have, but his ⟨p. 22⟩colour is natural, it is his own, it is not painted, his constitution is firm. The hypocrites beauty is borrowed, the fire of trial will melt it off.

2. An Upright Heart is Sound without Rottenness, Psal. 119. 80. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I may not be ashamed. The more sincerity the less shame. Integrity is the great author of confidence. Every frost shakes an unsound body, and every tryal shakes an unsound soul. An upright man hath not alwayes so pure a colour as an hypocrite may have, but his ⟨p. 22⟩colour is natural, it is his own, it is not painted, his constitution is firm. The hypocrites beauty is borrowed, the fire of tryal will melt it off.

An Upright man hath his infirmities, his diseases, but his new nature works them out, for he is sound within. A leprosy overspreads the hypocrite, but he hides it, Psal. 36. 2. He flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. He endeavours to hide himself from God, more from men, most from himself; he would fain be in with himself howsoever, and this trade he drives, till his iniquity be found to be hateful. But now an Upright man, he is always sifting and trying himself; am I sound? am I right? are my services rightly done? are my infirmities consistent with integrity? and the like. An upright Saint is like an apple with rotten specks, but an hypocrite is like the apple with a rotten core. The sincere Christian hath here a speck of passion, and there of worldliness, and there of pride; but cut him up, anatomize him, he is sound at heart, there Christ and Christianity live and reign. Now an hypocrite is like an apple that is smooth and lovely on the outside, but rotten within: His words exact,