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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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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 be1 good in bad times. The Lawrel keeps its freshnesse and greennesse in the Winter-season, Job 27. 6. My righteousnesse I hold fast and will not let it go, my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. Uprightnesse is a complexion which will not alter. The upright mans zeale is like the fire which the vestal Virgins kept in Rome alwayes burning.
- 1XIV. Charact.
*The hypocrite seems upright, till times of trial come. The crystal looks like pearl till it comes to the hammering. The hypocrite is good only in Sun-shine; he cannot sail in a storm, but retreats to the shore. Naturalists report of the Chelydonian stone that it will retain its virtue no longer then it is enclosed in gold. An emblem of ⟨p. 41⟩hypocrites who are good only while they are enclosed in golden prosperity, take them out of the gold, and they lose that virtue they did seem to have; descinit in piscem mulier formosa superne.—Unsound professors, like green timber, shrink in the hot Sun of persecution. The heat of the fiery trial cools their zeal.