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The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the…
The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1657
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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.
Some brag they have good hearts, but their lives are crooked. They hope to go to heaven, but their steps take hold of hell, Prov. 5. 5. an upright Christian is [Greek or Hebrew], he sets a Crown of honour upon the head of Religion, he doth not only profess the Gospel, but adorn it, he labours to walk so regularly and ⟨p. 40⟩holily, that if we could suppose the Bible to be lost▪ it might be found again in his life.
Some brag they have good hearts, but their lives are crooked. They hope to go to heaven, but their steps take hold of hell, Prov. 5. 5. an upright Christian is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, he sets a Crown of honour upon the head of Religion, he doth not only professe the Gospel, but adorne it, he labours to walk so regularly and ⟨p. 40⟩holily, that if we could suppose the Bible to be lost▪ it might be found again in his life.
XIV. The upright man will be1 good in bad times. The Laurel keeps its freshness and greenness in the Winter-season, Job 27. 6. My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go, my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. Uprightness is a complexion which will not alter. The upright mans zeal is like the fire which the vestal Virgins kept in Rome always burning.
XIV. The upright man will be