to come shall fare the better for your integrity Abraham he hardly injoyed one foot of that land which fell to him for his true-heartedness but his posterity had it all And many an upright man lives and dyes but with an ordinary estate for he dare not do wrong to grow rich but the Lord remembers his posterity and his seed shall be mighty in the earth the generation of the upright shall be blessed Hold on therefore in your integrity you are in the way of preferment Prov. 21. 21. He that followeth after righteousness findeth life righteousness and honour he finds more than he lookt for 'T is true the vilest men may be exalted and the posterity of evil men may be both great and good but they have no such promise for it as you have They may have fairer houses finer fare costlier clothing but they have a curse with it and a sad reckoning to come O therefore for your healths sake for your estate sake for your posterities sake but above all for your souls sake for an upright Gods sake study integrity be true-hearted sincere-hearted and whole-hearted men for God SECT X. X. GOd will shew himself upright to his upright ones in Crowning their integrity 1. With Internal Peace Melchizedek was first the King of Righteousness and then King of Salem King of Peace and where Christ hath ingraven Sincerity which is the true Righteousness then follows Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost There 's no Rest but in Religion nor any sound Peace but in Piety Others may have Quiet of Conscience but the upright man hath the Testimony of his Conscience that is quite another thing Theirs is but a truce a dayes sickness will break it The hypocrite hath a Conscience Pacified but what 's this without a Conscience Puri fied It is Righteousness and Peace that only will kiss each other The quieâ—… of most mens Consciences is from theiâ—… Blindness not from their Goodness thus the beasts are well because they know nâ—… better fear no worse Thus millions lyâ—… still and dye like Lambs If these had morâ—… knowledge they would have less quiet They are like the malefactor in a dungeon that sees not his misery or as the bird busie at the chaff when the Net 's unseen One thundering threat set on by the spirit of bondage will spoil all their mirth There can be no true peace where sin is suffered in quiet It were well for such as you to be frighted Cries were your best Musick and Tears the best Nectar you could drink you must be let blood or dye such is your disease that you must be lanc'd or lost But now when true grace comes in after that spiritual conflict that breaks the heart of sin the Conscience hath a sweet peace or at least ground for it The Law charges the Devil charges Conscience in Christs blood that discharges He that makes Conscience of sin hath his Conscience quit from sin Now I can eat and sleep and go in the dark my Conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost though the earth be removed and the Mountains carried into the midst of the sea yet here 's tranquility In the world ye shall have Tribulation but in me saith Christ ye shall have peace and this is the fruit of uprightness Isa. 32. 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever While Francis Spira kept on in his upright way he had a heaven of peace but after his sinful compliance he had not one day or hour of quiet in his soul. And it is recorded that Cicero when dying and reflecting on his warping and temporizing he cried out O me miserum O me nunquam felicem c. Sincerity and Serenity live and dye together And 2. With Eternal Glory There he payes home the upright man for all When his God leads him into the Land of Uprightness Psal. 143. 10. there he shall meet with all Gods hidden ones of whom the world was not worthy Ah poor hypocrite he knows not what to do when he dyes each step he takes is towards Hell the longer he lives the nearer his destruction Job 27. 8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite though he hath gain'd wealth repute c. when God hath taken away his soul Their very hope which is all the comfort that 's left them will flee away and leave them in the bryars But then the upright man shall be some body Here he is a Prince unknown there he enters his kingdom Here he is under a cloud there the righteous shall shine as the Sun for ever and ever As he that hath an Estate in Reversion though he live poor a while yet the Estate will fall An inheritance uncorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away and this as sure as God is in Heaven and thy name in the Bible Genes 17. 1. Walk before me and be perfect I will be thy exceeding great reward Who can desire more than him that is Alt It will be merry when the upright God and the upright Man do meet Art thou he that receiv'd my dear Son and resign'd thy heart so freely to him Art thou he that gave inward universal and constant obedience to my will Art thou he that stuck to me in such and such times and tryals Art thou he that walked righteously and spake the truth in thy heart Come up hither Angels put on his Crown sing an Authem ye sons of the morning at my upright servants coming home Come enter thou into the joy of the Lord. Here live and love and rejoyce for ever Psal. 140. 13. Surely the righteous shall give thanks to thy name the upright shall dwell in thy presence Now many a poor upright heart hath hardly a house to cover his head scarce a bed to rest on here he must not dwell and there he must not dwell but there is but one life between him and a glorious Palace whereof the spangled firmament is but the floor He hath an house pav'd with Rubies and fill'd with Saints and Angels like so many Suns and there he shall dwell and sing among them world without end Into that Corporation all upright men may come and their greatest enemies will never follow them Seeming Saints will be in the Church none but Sincere Saints must come into Heaven Mat. 5. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Rejoyce therefore in the Lord O ye Righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart O what a shout will there be in Heaven when all this blessed Tribe meet together and have Christ among them and then you shall see how the righteous Lord loveth righteousness and his countenance doth behold the upright Then shall you be paid for every drop of blood for every drop of tears for every step for every thought that you have laid out for his Name And thus you have the second
God carry his upright ones God will suffer before them the Lord will suffer with them Deuâ—… 32. 11. As the Eagle spreadèth abroad her wings taketh her young and beareth them on her wings So the Lord c. That is a sweet word Psal. 7. 10. My defence is of God which saveth the upright in heart Thou hast perhaps no great friend to shelter thee nor great estate to ransoâ—…e thee but thou hast a great God for thy defence whose work and care it is to save the upright in heart I am thy shield saith God to Abraham fear not if Omniscience be able to see and Omnipotence able to help thou art sure enough And therefore fear not thou worm Jacob and ye men of Israel I will help thee saith the Lord Isa. 41. 14. A worm is a poor creature that few love and none fear so are the seed of Jacob persons that few love and none fear and such are most obnoxious to dangers yet sayes God fear not thou werm A worm in the hand of God can withstand a world and the Gates the utmost power and policy of Hell shall not prevail against one upright man Prov. 13. 6. Righteâ—…ness keepeth him that is upright in the way His innoâ—…ence is his shiâ—…ld And the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him His all-seeing eye his all-ruling providâ—…nce is imployed in finding out all the designs of your enemies to frustrate them or over-rule them and to secure you whose hearts are perfect or upright before him How secure would you be against a subject by such a word from a King and may you not rest more on his word who is the King of Kings If you have his Pass you may go safe enough even through Armies of Aliens Observable is that story in Josephus of Gods special Providence this way The Emperor Caligula commands Petronius his Deputy in Judea to set up his Image in the Temple The Jews ever since their Captivity â—…een against Idolatry bâ—…g and crave and at length offer their necks and lives to him rather than admit such a profanation Petronius pities their condition and forbears to execute his Masters command But the Emperor is inraged and sends his Deputy a Letter to slay himself the usual doom of such persons But Caligula shortly dyes and his Letter meeting with some delay was not brought unto Petronius till just after he had received the news of his death and thus he escaped Behold the admirable Providence of God to those that stand upright Go forth therefore in your might consider your duty and faithfully do it Take no sollicitous care what shall befall you Study not events but study your work not what man or Devils will do but what you ought to do and not an hair of your head must fall to the ground Wickedness proceeds from the wicked but with the upright man he will shew himself upright SECT III. III. THe Lord will shew himself upright to this man in Strengthning his graces and prospering him in his soul. His Graces are weak his bones dried his soul is poor and needy He is poring a whole week by times to find one plain evidence one evident Grace of God but having an upright heart and being a plant of Gods planting they shall increase and grow up as the calves of the stall The Child painted on the wall that grows not unless it grows more dim but the Child in the bosome that hath a principle of life though it cryes it grows though sick sometimes yet grows and at length grows a strong and lusty man so in this case the painted hypocrite hath no cubit added to his stature no he grows worse and worse his varnish wears off and nothing remains at length but a sepulchre without paint But an upright man though he groan he grows though he have some qualms and doubts and troubles yet he gets ground and though insensibly gathers strength It cannot be but that a sincere heart who is diligent in the means of Grace must be changed from glory to glory Mic. 2. 7. Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly certainly they do He receives good though he perceive it not As a living man that feeds heartily must needs gather strength unless he have some predominant disease upon him though perhaps he perceive not at every meal renewed strength So an upright man being truely alive to God through Jesus Christ and careful in the use of all Gods Ordinances must needs increase his spiritual strength though perhaps he sees no present profit by this prayer or that Sermon unless he lye under the tyranny of some imperious sin for a time Prov. 10. 29. The way of the Lord is Strength to the Upright which most properly may dignifie that Religion secures an upright man according to the last Point but it is most true in this sence the wayes of God and Godliness are strength and bring strength to the upright He that is planted in the house of the Lord shall still bring forth fruit To shew that the Lord is upright Psa. 92. 13 14. It is one thing to be placed in the house of the Lord so many a carnal Gospoller is hath a seat there and appears there from one years end to another but it is another thing to be planted there to have a root of Knowledge Repentance and Uprightness and such must needs grow and go from strength to strength Be not therefore discouraged O ye of upright heart for your grain of mustard-seed will become a Tree though your graces seem weak they shall be strong To him that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance You have a little faith and love Habenti dabitur God hath said it you shall have abundance Despise not the day of small things ply your Oars the Ship is passing though you think it stands still and you will be at the shore ere you be aware Ephes. 6. 24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity Here 's that blessing that reaches even you Grace All Grace of all sorts and sizes be with it may be with you though it appear not to you with all in all ages of the Church and in all places of the World that love our Lord Jesus Christ perhaps thou canst not preach for Christ write nor consult nor fight for Christ nor but thou canst love Jesus Christ. Thou canst love him as a Lord to Rule thee as a Jesus to Save thee as a Christ to teach thee why here 's Grace in the promise in the blessing for thee But Christ must be loved in sincerity Jesus Christ himself and Jesus Christ for himself And then be assured that Grace shall be multiplied to such a soul. As it is Gods judicial method when men are resolv'd to go on in sin to give them up Rev. 22.
Foelix trembled on the Throne And they say the Apostle James was so chearful at his Martyrdom that one that drew him to the Tribunal was converted by it For Death that King of terrours that dismounts the proudest spirits the most effectual refuter of all Atheists and Surprizer of Hypocrites is disarm'd of all its terribleness by an upright heart Isa. 57. 2. He shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds each one walking in their uprightness The Bed of an hypocrite is a Grave wherein he lyes rotting in his sins the Grave of an upright man is a Bed of spices wherein his body is at rest whose soul hath walked before God in his Uprightness O be of good chear then all ye single-hearted ones The handkerchief of Gods love shall wipe away your tears his cordials shall stay your faintings The Lyons shall roar and the young Lyons suffer hunger but they that fear the Lord shall want no good thing If wants be good for you look for them if sickness be good for you be content with it if prisons if losses if crosses come they shall do you no hurt A summo Bono nil nisi Bonum Every stream of Providence how fierce soever is turn'd through that Promise All things shall work together for good to them that love God His Properties his Promises his Providences do all smile on the true-hearted man Poor men your straits may be great Poor women your pangs may be sharp but All 's for good yea for the best God is with you the great wise and holy God And is this nothing Are the Consolations of God small with you If he give quietness who then can make trouble Heaviness may indure for a night but joy cometh in the morning The story alwayes ends well to the sincere-hearted man Psal. 112. 4. Unto the upright ariseth light in the darkness Dark providences may well be born when clear promises are sealed upon the heart This was noble Hezekiahs comfort when all forsook him Isa. 38. 3. Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in Truth and with a perfect heart I have done uprightly with thee now deal uprightly with me now remember and the Lord hath too good a memory to forget such a man in his needs he gives him a Lease gratis of fifteen years both of Life and Kingdom Who would not intirely love and serve such a God The poor mans Friend the sick mans Doctor yea and Bed-maker the prisoners Companion the true-hearted the unwearied the everlasting God a very present help in trouble Name that strait wherein God hath not supported or relieved his people Ask thy Fathers and they shall tell thee how in six troubles and in seven he hath been with them All the Patriarchs can prove this Abraham and Job and Daniel Speak we only with David was he not very poor when he sent to crave of Nabal God gave him Content and at last Plenty Was he not in dreadful hazard in Keilah in Gath in Mahanaim but he came off well and dyed in his bed Was he not upon a time very sick so that some said An evil disease did cleave to him yet God remembred him and made him safe and sound All the Saints will bear witness for God that he is no flincher of his friends yea at last all men shall say Psal. 58. 11. Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth Though things seem to go cross with his poor children yet take one thing with another he deals very uprightly with them In very faithfulness thou hast afflicted me If they want a fuller table yet they have a lighter heart if they have not such costly clothes yet they have more healthful constitutions if they reach not such vast treasures yet they can injoy the light of Gods countenance which is far better Artabazus thought himself wrong'd when Cyrus gave him a Golden cup at a feast and to Chrysantas only a kiss of Respect deeming thereby that he had a lesser portion of kindness than the other and shall not we much more value his glorious smiles above the greatest earthly gifts Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth For his love is better than Wine Though you be not delivered from your straits yet being upheld in them you are well It was all one to the three Worthies to be kept in the fire as to be kept out of it One way or other light shall spring to the righteous and joy to the upright in heart SECT VI. VI. THe Lord shews himself upright to the upright man In directing him in his doubts Prov. 11. 3. The integrity of the upright shall guide them Many an upright man is under great doubts and knows not what to believe or what to do Arguments and pleas on both hands Great men on one side and Good men on another for seldom are they both on a side likely reasons court his Assent either way The commands of men sometimes countermanded by his Conscience and he wants parts learning and judgement to cleave an hair and state the case exactly either of Faith or Fact Now in this case when he hath us'd the means of resolution that he is capable of the integrity of the upright shall guide him His plain honest heart is neither suspicious of more evil to be in men or things then evidently appears nor on the other side doth he study extricating Salvo's or subtle evasions to sleep with a whole skin and salute the upper party but according to his best knowledge he fixes his faith and orders his actions by the Rule of Gods Word which he knows will best bear him out An upright man sometimes meets with Doubts in matters of Faith but herein he stands fairest for that promise which Christ hath made to lead his into all truth Though his integrity may not secure him from Error that it will not yet 't will secure him from being an Heretick He hath Doubts sometimes about things to be done towards God in his Worship towards men in his Life In the former he studies the will of God in his Word knowing that nothing which is offered to him will please him unless directed by him And for Men he is relieved in most of his doubts by that golden Rule Mat. 7. 12. What soever ye would that men should do to you do ye to them And lastly he is perplexed with some Doubts about the Love of God and the salvation of his Soul but here also his Integrity so guides him that he is far from presuming though he be loth to despair and the Lord gives him Comfort from his Sincerity though he want the joyes from Assurance And is not uprightness a choice Jewel to lay claim to this guidance Psal. 25. 8. Good and upright is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way This conducting a poor sinner in the way flows from his Goodness
long he may certainly while any of his base ends draw him on Indeed when sharp troubles come for Religion then generally such are weary of it and utterly deny that which they never delighted in Canst thou now say in the midst of thy multiplied duties that thou hadst rather do them than not do them Dost thou only use prayer or chuse prayer Dost thou only avoid sin or abhor sin That is something or else that Pharisee Luke 18. shall be justified as soon as thou Object 3. Quiet of Conscience My own heart condemns me not that is most privy to my own estate and would be surely most faithful to me in this weighty case nay it is more against an hypocrite than any other sinner Answ. Remember that a Conscience pacified is not alwayes a sign of a Conscience purified If Conscience be not blinded it will see if it be not bribed it will speak if it be not brawny it will feel but if it have been curb'd and silenc'd and sinn'd against it may let you alone even as God doth and never bark till it bite and make its teeth to meet There are that deceive others until at length they be deceiv'd themselves that have deceived their own hearts so long till a deceived heart hath turned them aside that they cannot deliver their souls nor say is there not a lye in my right hand Isa. 44. 20. And yet if one should refer it to thee Dost thou think in thy very Conscience that thou art an upright Saint and a sincere servant of Jesus Christ Dost thou not know that by thy self which is inconsistent with integrity of heart what is that which makes thee tremble at death in a fright at thunder in pain at a searching Sermon afraid at the reading or hearing of any sisting marks or signs And then for bearing a great hatred to hypocrites that 's nothing for one proud man may hate another for standing in his light and rotten hearts are usually most suspicious and censorious of others Thy best evidence would be to loath thy self and thy only cure to be pricked at the heart SECT II. II. Use. THe second Improvement of this Point is for Reprehension 1. Of those that Disturst an upright God 2. Of those that Distast an upright Man 1. That Distrust an upright God No greater trouble to an upright man than to be suspected and distrusted to have his word question'd and his wayes misconstrued Good and upright is the Lord and he cannot indure to be called in question They that know him will take his word for more than this world is worth Psal. 9. 10. They that know thy Name will put their trust in thee But alas how few are these if we run over those very particulars wherein he shews himself upright you shall find much distrust in the world yea in the very best If we be in Danger how sew can quiet themselves in Gods promise of succour If we have fallen into Temptation how long ere we can heartily believe our pardon sealed in the blood of Christ when we begin to Pray which of us believes that as sure as we ask we shall receive how difficult to relye upon the grace of God for perseverance or on the promise of God for all good things in this life and for a Crown of glory in another O the wretched distrust of mans heart whence else do men run to unworthy means to attain their desires every day and lean no more on him or on his word than on a weak staff that we dare not trust you can trust a man when he hath money in his hand you should trust God when he gives money in the Promise The World should know we serve a God whom we dare trust The promise is ever as good as the thing promised He is no flincher with whom you deal To distrust him is to devest him and that of his dearest Attribute his Truth When we distrust God we make him man when we trust in man we make him God How many experiments have you read nay how many experiments have you had of his uprightness to you and must they all stand for nothing What man can come out and say I was under such a promise but I never had the benefit of it I trusted Jacobs God in vain And must you be the first instances of his unfaithfulness God forbid To instance what disquieting thoughts have we sometimes about provision for our Children they 'l be left succourless and quite forsaken and unworthy courses are sometimes taken to prevent it and yet we know they will fall Wards to God and that the Generation of the upright shall be blessed And because here perhaps you may reply that herein you do not so much question Gods uprightness as your own therefore see in another Instance what perplexities are Gods servants in for his Church when it is rent with schisms eclips'd with errors oppress'd with troubles And yet he hath undertaken to rule the world for his Churches good and that the Gates of Hell stronger than armes on earth shall never prevail against her O silence then and charm down your unbelief and credit this word To the upright man he will shew himself upright 2. This Reproves those that Distast an upright man He that is unlike God cannot but dislike both him and his likeness Wonder of wickedness that ever any reasonable creature should hate his Makers picture dislike the men that are after Gods own heart and the better the man the worse to hate him It was so in the beginning is now and will be world without end 1 Sam. 29. 6. Surely sayes Achish to David as the Lord liveth thou hast been upright nevertheless the Lord favours thee not Let a man be never so honest charitable unblameable yet if he discover his integrity by reproving sin by a strict watch over his words by a peaceable demurring at a thing he is unsatisfied in there 's some of you though you never saw him were never disoblig'd by him yet out of an inveteracy against God it can be nothing else you dislike and declaim against him If this man have an hundred excellent qualities and but one defect or fault all his good qualities are buried and he goes with you under the notion of his single sin But on the other hand let a man be never so ignorant unclean swearer drunkard Atheistical yet divers of you can imbrace him delight in his company or at least he shall live quietly by you and if he do not personally affront you no Magistrate shall ever be inform'd of him that he might reform him And to see your equity if this man have an hundred ill conditions and but some one good quality as perhaps of an obliging carriage all his faults are silenced and he obtains a favourable character from this single vertue which shews clearly that your spite is at the good man as he is good or else you would cry
Labour for uprightness Buy this truth and sell it not For the love of God be not hypocrites Consider three things 1. Uprightness is Amiable 1. In the eye of God you see that in 1 Chron. 29. 17. He hath pleasure in uprightness You that displease him by your Infirmities had need to please him by your Integrity Cant. 4. 7. Thou art fair my love sayes Christ there is no spot in thee This makes you all fair in his eyes All the beauty of Heaven and Earth doth not please God as an upright man no creature like the New creature And on the contrary no sight so odious to him as an hypocrite He that counterfeits the Kings coyn dyeth the same death with a Rebel A lukewarm Christian makes Christs stomach to rise Rev. 3. 16. And 2. Uprightness is amiable to men Where enmity to God hath not quite raz'd out all reliques of Reason and Honesty every man seems to be pleas'd with integrity and will speak for such as they think in their Consciences mean and speak uprightly Few would hurt us if we could more sincerely be followers of that which is good But an hypocrite is odious to all men like those Proto-hypocrites 1 Thes. 2. 15. They please not God and are contrary to all men He makes an ill choice that imbraces a course that God and man are agreed to abhor 2. Uprightness is Comfortable A sound upright good Conscience is a continual feast In troubles reproaches sickness death no comfort like an upright heart This will support the spirits supply with new spirits the weather-beaten Christian and make him sing in prison when his enemies shall tremble on the Throne This gave the Apostle Paul that boldness before Princes that he lived in all good Conscience Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect to all thy righteous judgments And on the contrary a man hath no comfort from hypocrisie none at all What joy can a man have when he knows his heart is rotten What comfort in a velvet patch when it only covers a filthy ulcer What content when a man dare not commune with himself he that is not welcome unto his own Conscience can be merry no where in the world 3. Uprightness is Necessary 1. To every good duty here Without it Preaching is but a tinkling Cymbal Prayer but as the howling of a Dog Religious discourse but the prating of a Parrot Nothing acceptable without it Goats-hair a rich present with it A sincere sigh of him that joyns more worth than the fained eloquence of him that makes the Prayer The two mites of the good Widow more valuable than the great sums cast in by Pharisees Our duties are not numbred but weighed they are not measured by their length or breadth but by their prosundity If they be hearty sincere the right stamp upon them they are current in Heaven or else they are but the cutting off a dogs neck the offering of swines flesh and God abhors them 2. Necessary to our eternal-Salvation hereafter Psal. 24. 4. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord He that hath clean hands and a pure heart A man may go to Heaven without Parts without Riches without Gifts but there is no coming there without uprightness that is the land of uprightness it is there all in fashion The great question at those Gates will be Man Woman where 's thy oyl Though men may be deceived God will not be mocked He that sowes the wind shall reap the whirlwind In the darkest corner of Hell there lye the hypocrites O the rage horror and torment of an hypocrite in Hell when his hope is like the giving up the Ghost O the confusion and shame that will cover him when his fellow-Professors shall see him so unexpectedly packt into Hell And what brutish madness is it to make others believe that thou art going towards Heaven and that while thou steal into Hell O sinner it is absolutely necessary to salvation that thou be upright And therefore in the Name of God inquire the means to obtain it and set about them Well will you faithfully use them Then they are these SECT VIII I. STudy Humility Hab. 2. 4. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him Pride hath a great influence into hypocrisie and humility into uprightness He that takes a pride in being counted Great or Good no wondeâ—… that he will put on the vizard of more goodness than he hath And on the other side he that is content of an ordinary Reputation will study to be sound and not play the white Devil to get applause The humble man concludes I am a very weak creature and I am a very great sinner and what care I for a golden name and know I have but a leaden heart Do but study the pure Law of God and then study thy impure heart and be proud if thou canst where a truer heart than in Paul yet he for his part is of Saints the least of sinners the chief although the Lord reckoned him greater than the greatest of the former and less than the least of the latter Humility and Integrity are born and dye together II. Be faithful in Self-examination Psal. 77. 6. I communed with my heart and my spirit made diligent search And for this end let your Consciences be heard for the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord to search the innermost parts of the belly You think all 's right but when matters come to tryal you 'l find all 's naught While the Sun is under the cloud you can see no motes in the room but when its beams shine in you may see thousands How do young people live in the dark and little feel or fear the plague that is upon them but when once the light of saving knowledge Self-knowledge breaks in then Ephraim bemoans himself and Paul cryes out O wretched man that I am For shame live not so long strangers at home If a man do not know himself he knows nothing Commune with your own hearts and be still You commune with God in religious Duties you commune with men in your civil Callings but when do you commune with your selves Go to the Law try your selves by every command Luther going about this and beginning at I am the Lord thy God profess'd that he was so overwhelm'd thereby that he could go no further Alas your Confidence flows from your Ignorance one saving sight of your woful state would go far in your oure O lose not your souls for want of one serious thought III. Get an hatred to hypocrisie and a love of uprightness Behold them both in their own colours Read Mat. 23. That glass will shew you the face of the one and Psal. 119. will shew you the features of the other If you would put the worst badge in the world upon a man you call him Hypocrite if you would give any man the most advantageous title you write him an