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…

3. AN upright man labours after Constant Religion. His sanctity is a ¹second Nature in him, now that which is natural is constant; There is great difference between the natural heat of an healthy man, and the preternatural heat of an Ague; such is the difference between the true Saint and the hypocrite. An hypocrite may have some fits of Piety, but they are adventitious, they flow from some outward cause, and accordingly they last but for a while; and when that cause ceaseth, (suppose some sharp judgement feared or felt, some qualm of Conscience, or shallow Sermon-sickness) then a cold fit follows, as bad or worse than before: alas, it is preternatural, it was no habit, but the upright man hath a constant heat, he fears always and maintains constant duty, though he cannot keep equal heat therein.

3. AN upright man labours after Constant Religion. His sanctity is a ¹second Nature in him, now that which is natural is constant; There is great difference between the natural heat of an healthy man, and the praeternatural heat of an Ague; such is the difference between the true Saint and the hypocrite. An hypocrite may have some fits of Piety, but they are adventitious, they flow from some outward cause, and accordingly they last but for a while; and when that cause ceaseth, (suppose some sharp judgement fear'd or felt, some qualm of Conscience, or shallow Sermon-sickness) then a cold fit follows, as bad or worse than before: alas, it is praeternatural, it was no habit, but the upright man hath a constant heat, he fears alwayes and maintains constant duty, though he cannot keep equal heat therein.

1. 1§. 9. Constant Religion.

And here's the difference between the inconstancy of an upright man and of an hypocrite; the inconstancy of the hypocrite is in the Substance of the duty it self; one while he prays, another while he