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. He is a Student and Practitioner of Inward Religion. Diligent he is in the outward acts of it also, but that he hath common with the hypocrite, but his greatest study is to be good within, ⟨p. 29⟩Rom. 2. 28, 29. For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, [that is, he is no Jew as to the esteem and acceptation of God, or as to the spiritual privileges of the Covenant] neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh, [to wit, that is not the Circumcision, which God chiefly looks at, and which a man is chiefly advantaged by] But he is a Jew which is one inwardly, [that is, a Saint in soul] and Circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter. It is not water on the face, but blood on the heart which makes a saveable Christian. O Sirs, what change hath there been on your spirits? what fear, and love, and sanctity is there in your hearts? look to this, or else you will break like bubbles. And then it follows, Whose praise is not of men, but of God, that is, whose aim, and whose honour it is not to be praised of men, but of God. The Upright man trades in Invisible things.

1. He is a Student and Practitioner of Inward Religion. Diligent he is in the outward acts of it also, but that he hath common with the hypocrite, but his greatest study is to be good within, ⟨p. 29⟩Rom. 2. 28, 29. For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, [that is, he is no Jew as to the esteem and acceptation of God, or as to the spiritual priviledges of the Covenant] neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh, [to wit, that is not the Circumcision, which God chiefly looks at, and which a man is chiefly advantag'd by] But he is a Jew which is one inwardly, [that is, a Saint in soul] and Circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter. It is not water on the face, but blood on the heart which makes a saveable Christian. O Sirs, what change hath there been on your spirits? what fear, and love, and sanctity is there in your hearts? look to this, or else you will break like bubbles. And then it follows, Whose praise is not of men, but of God, that is, whose aim, and whose honour it is not to be prais'd of men, but of God. The Upright man trades in Invisible things.