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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31037	The Christian temper, or, A discourse concerning the nature and properties of the graces of sanctification written for help in self-examination and holy living / by John Barret ...	Barret, John, 1631-1713.	1678 (1678)	Wing B907; ESTC R20482	253,096	440

believes any Truth upon the Testimony of God in his Word upon the same ground for the same reason must believe the truth of whatsoever God hath said in his Word So he that obeyeth in this or that particular because God hath commanded it hath a will to obey all that God hath given in Command Thus the upright Man's obedience to one Command is upon a general Ground common to all God's Commands And hereupon he is uniform in his Obedience But the obedience which the Hypocrite performeth is upon lame unsound Reasons and partial Grounds and so his obedience is lame short and partial like the Grounds of it But attend well to this note I am upon To walk Uprightly is to walk in all the Commandments of the Lord as Zacharias and Elizabeth did Luk. 1.6 And so 1. The Upright Man hath a respect to both Tables An Upright Heart is another Arke where the Tables of God's Laws are kept even both Tables Those which God hath joyned one after God's Heart would not separate Such a one would keep a Conscience void of offence both towards God and towards Men Act. 24.16 Look what kind of honesty to Man that is which is not accompanied with Religion towards God the same sayes Mr. R. Bolton is that Religion towards God which is not attended with honesty to Men. Both in one predicament as he sayes How can he be Upright before God who does not make Conscience of Duties to God Job was Perfect and Vpright and one that feared God as we read Job 1.1 And further Uprightness teacheth to make Conscience of Duties towards Men. For which see Job's serious profession of his Upright carriage chap. 31. So the Apostle sayes Heb. 13.18 We trust we have a good Conscience in all things willing to live honestly So the Upright Man is a good Man Mic. 7.2 The good Man is perished out of the earth and there is none upright among Men. Psal 125.4 Those that be good and them that are Vpright in their heart go together The Upright set themselves to follow the rule of the Word which teacheth them to be good in their Relations As Psal 101.2 I will behave my self wisely in a perfect way I will walk within my Soul with a perfect heart The Upright Man will be a good Master Or such a one will make a good Servant if he be in that Relation Obeying not with eye-service but in singleness of heart Col. 3.22 not purloyning but shewing all good fidelity Tit. 2.10 The Upright Man is a just Man Job 12.4 The Just Vpright Man He is just in his dealings Uprightness and Injustice are at great odds as can be these will never agree while the World stands Sincerity will not mingle with fraud and deceit Sincerum quasi sine cerâ The honest heart is for honest dealing Such as are Sincere before God will deal truly sincerely fairly candidly with Men. As there is an expression Judg. 9.19 If ye have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his House Such as make a trade of cozening defrauding wronging their Neighbours let their pretences be never so fair their course of practice will prove them false unsound How incongruous is it to have Jacob's Voice and Esau's rough hands Verily a cheating Professour is much worse than a known professed Cheater And see Deut. 25.13 14 15 16. Deceitful Weights and deceitful Measures are the inventions of deceitful Hearts How many that are enriching themselves with the wages of Vnrighteousness Such cannot say as the Psalmist Psal 18.23 24. I was upright before him Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness according to the cleanness of my hands in his Eye-sight Nor are such ever likely to have any evidence of their Uprightness till they come to follow such Counsel as that Dan. 4.27 Break off thy Sins by Righteousness and thine Iniquities by shewing Mercy to the Poor As God smites his hand at Mens dishonest gain Ezek. 22.13 So will the Upright despise the gain of oppressions or deceits and shake his hands from holding of bribes Isa 33.15 Yea the Upright Man is not only just but Merciful Psal 112.4 Unto the Vpright there ariseth light in darkness he is gracious and full of compassion as well as righteous So the Merciful and Vpright are put together and opposed to the froward Psal 18.25 26. 2. The upright Man would not despise the least of Gods Commands He is for keeping them as the apple of his Eye as there is an expression Prov. 7.2 with all care and tenderness His care is to walk circumspectly exactly That preciseness which prophane spirits deride and scoff at he sees to be necessary That supposing a Man to keep the whole Law excepting one Point which he allows himself to offend in by contemning God's Authority therein his Obedience would thus be proved unsound and he be proved guilty in respect of the whole Law James 2.10 He thus despising that same Authority upon which the whole Law depends For one to allow himself in the breach of the least of Christ's Commands accounting it of little weight that it was no matter if he regard it not this is enough to shut one out of the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.19 3. The upright Man though he does not despise and contemn the least of God's Commands yet he looks first and most to the greatest Commands He has a special regard to these As the contrary detected the Hypocrisy of the Scribes and Pharisees that as strict as they were in lesser matters yet they were grosly negligent of the greater and more weighty Mat. 23.23 24. To be very observant of and zealous about Circumstantials but careless of more necessary Duties and substantials of Religion is one ill-favoured mark of an Hypocrite whereby he may be known 4. The upright Man has a respect to the hardest Commands even to such Commands as are most cross to his Carnal interest and Natural inclination So this evidenced Abraham's integrity that when God called for his Isaac he withheld not his Son his only Son from him Thus on the other hand the unsoundness of the young Man that was ready to boast of his obedience was discovered Mat. 19.21 If thou wilt be perfect Mark 10.21 one thing thou lackest Go and sell that thou hast and give to the Poor and come and follow me Christ knew his mind how his heart was let upon the World and to shew that his heart was not right nor he so perfect as he took himself to be he tried him with a Command that was cross to his Carnal Interest and to his special Inclination which soon laid him open As willing and forward as he seemed to know and learn his Duty yet when he hears of selling all and taking up the Cross Mark 10.21 he leaveth this hard work for others 12. The upright Man carries uprightly in reference to holy Duties Here 1. He has a care to engage his heart to