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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.
And yet, the most upright man in the ⟨p. 24⟩world hath some hypocrisy in him, Prov. 20. 9. Who can say I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? but this he detects, resists, and hates, and so it cannot denominate him an hypocrite in this world, nor damn him for one in another. His ends are generally purely at the glory of God, his frame of heart and thoughts pure, and generally better than his outside; the farther you trace him the better he is. Pure from dishonesty in his dealings, purer yet in his family from all appearance of evil, purer still in his closet, and purest in his heart: though there be sin there, yet there is also there an antipathy against it, that it mingles not with it.
And yet, the most upright man in the ⟨p. 24⟩world hath some hypocrisie in him, Prov. 20. 9. Who can say I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? but this he detects, resists, and hates, and so it cannot denominate him an hypocrite in this world, nor damn him for one in another. His ends are generally purely at the glory of God, his frame of heart and thoughts pure, and generally better than his outside; the farther you trace him the better he is. Pure from dishonesty in his dealings, purer yet in his family from all appearance of evil, purer still in his closet, and purest in his heart: though there be sin there, yet there is also there an antipathy against it, that it mingles not with it.
The hypocrite chooses sin, the upright man would have no sin if he could choose. The Traveller (its true) meets with dirt in his way, but he keeps it off as well as he can, mingles not with it, and if he be soiled, he rubs it off as soon as may be: but the swine delights in it, cannot be well without it. 'Tis just so between the upright man and the hypocrite. The most upright Saint on earth, is bemired with sin sometimes, but he did not design it in the morning, nor sleeps he with it at night; but an hypocrite he designs