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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.
The Epistle to the READER.
Friendly Reader,
This small Book hopes for thy Acceptance, merely for its Honesty and Plainness, which I have chiefly studied all along; a plain discourse being fittest upon plainness of Heart. I am not ignorant of the various & excellent Tractates upon this Subject; unto which ⟨image 3⟩Matter and Variation of Method is super added, which I hope you will find in this piece in hand.
THis small Book hopes for thy Acceptance, meerly for its Honesty and Plainness, which I have chiefly studied all along; a plain discourse being fittest upon plainness of Heart. I am not ignorant of the various & excellent Tractates upon this Subject; unto which ⟨image 3⟩Matter and Variation of Method is super added, which I hope you will find in this piece in hand.
Moreover there are such swarms of litigious Books of Controversies, which scorch up all true Love and Zeal, and greatly grieve such as love Peace, that may perhaps make such Discourses as this concerning the Vitals of genuine Piety, to be very necessary. For certainly if our ends were Right, and our Hearts Upright