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First, there is never uprightness of hart and behaviour, but Reas. 1 where sins are pardoned, and who will take upon him to charge that man with unrighteousness, how great an offender soever he hath formerly been, whose iniquities the Lord hath remitted?

First, there is neuer vprightnesse of hart and behauiour, but Reas. 1 where sinnes are pardoned, and who will take vpon him to charge that man with vnrighteousnesse, how great an offendour soeuer he hath formerly beene, whose iniquities the Lord hath remitted?

Secondly, as he is fully righteous which hath fullness of grace, §2so is every one more or less righteous according to the degrees of his grace, so as the smallest measure thereof doth denominate, and honour every one with the title of a just man, if it properly proceed from the holy Ghost, and be in truth the fruit of the spirit.

Secondly, as he is fully righteous which hath fulnesse of grace, §2so is euery one more or lesse righteous according to the degrees of his grace, so as the smallest measure thereof doth denominate, and honour euery one with the title of a iust man, if it properly proceede from the holy Ghost, and be in truth the fruit of the spirit.

Thirdly, were it not that all the Godly were verily righteous, §3they could have no place in the mystical body of Jesus Christ: for what correspondency would there be between the head which is absolutely just, and the rest of the members utterly unjust. Neither would there be any meet proportion, but a direct opposition between member and member, between those which are wholly holy above in the heavens, and such as are merely unholy beneath in the earth. These parts would no better accord together, then those of the Image which Nebuchadnezzar beheld in his dream, whose head was of fine gold, his