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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.
3. An Upright heart is Pure without Mixture. Not absolutely pure, that happiness is reserved for heaven, but compared with that pollution and base mixture, that constitutes an hypocrite. Though his hand cannot do all that God bids, yet his heart is sincere in all he doth. His soul is bent for perfect purity, and so he hath his name from that, Mat. 5. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart. In his words he sometimes fails, and so in his thoughts and deeds; but open his heart and there is a love, a desire, a design and an endeavour after real and absolute purity. Not legally pure, that is, free from all sin; but Evangelically pure, free from the reign of all sin, especially of hypocrisy, which is so flatly contrary to the Covenant of Grace. And in this sense the upright man is the Scripture Puritan, and so […] further from hypocrisy than any other man. He is really glad that God is the searcher of hearts, for then he knows, that he will find his name and nature in his own.
3. An Upright heart is Pure without Mixture. Not absolutely pure, that happiness is reserv'd for heaven, but compared with that pollution and base mixture, that constitutes an hypocrite. Though his hand cannot do all that God bids, yet his heart is sincere in all he doth. His soul is bent for perfect purity, and so he hath his name from that, Mat. 5. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart. In his words he sometimes fails, and so in his thoughts and deeds; but open his heart and there is a love, a desire, a design and an indeavour after real and absolute purity. Not legally pure, that is, free from all sin; but Evangelically pure, free from the reign of all sin, especially of hypocrisie, which is so flatly contrary to the Covenant of Grace. And in this sence the upright man is the Scripture Puritan, and so 〈…〉 further from hypocrisie than any other man. He is really glad that God is the searcher of hearts, for then he knows, that he will finde his name and nature in his own.
And yet, the most upright man in the