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…

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 ⟨p. 40⟩restrains prayer; one while he is strict and cautious; and shortly loose and careless; whereas the upright man keeps on in the course of his duty, though he cannot do it always alike; he prays, and would not b• hired from it, though the thread of his prayers be uneven: there may be remissness in it, but not an intermission of it: there's constant Religion, though not equal Religion. The hypocrite makes a Cloak of his Religion, which he puts on, and off, as it serves his purpose; the upright man wears it as his every day clothes, and puts not off his integrity, till he dye. There may be some Parentheses in his holy course, wherein vanity and sin may be written, (too many of these God knows in the best mans heart and life) but still the sentence runs current; the sense and scope of his heart runs Heavenward: whereas on the contrary, the full sense of an hypocrites heart is to please or promote himself; though there may be some parentheses of Religion, no part of the scope of his soul: you have their character, Psal. 78. 36, 37. Nevertheless they did stater him with their mouth, and they lied to him with their tongues: for their heart was not right with him, ⟨p. 41⟩neither were they steadfast in his Covenant. No greater sign of a rotten heart, than a fundamental unsteadfastness in the Covenant of God, when a man is ruled by times and companies to show good or evil, this mans heart is not right with God.

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 prayes, another while he ⟨p. 40⟩restrains prayer; one while he is strict and cautious; and shortly loose and careless; whereas the upright man keeps on in the course of his duty, though he cannot do it alwayes alike; he prayes, and would not b• hired from it, though the thread of his prayers be uneven: there may be remisness in it, but not an intermission of it: there's constant Religion, though not equal Religion. The hypocrite makes a Cloak of his Religion, which he puts on, and off, as it serves his purpose; the upright man wears it as his every day cloathes, and puts not off his integrity, till he dye. There may be some Parentheses in his holy course, wherein vanity and sin may be written, (too many of these God knows in the best mans heart and life) but still the sentence runs current; the sence and scope of his heart runs Heavenward: whereas on the contrary, the full sence of an hypocrites heart is to please or promote himself; though there may be some parentheses of Religion, no part of the scope of his soul: you have their character,