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A96110 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. Watson, Thomas, d. 1686. 1657 (1657) Wing W1146; Thomason E1610_3; ESTC R204062 19,344 63

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{non-Roman} all the counsel of God 'T is cowardise and treason to conceale any part of our Commission An upright man will not neglect a known duty for feare of losing a party Some upon this very ground have forborne to declare against errour for feare of a party falling off from them If men will fall off from us for doing our duty my opinion is they are better lost then kept Others have neglected to have the hands of the Presbytery laid upon them only because this would displease a party how many Apocryphal preachers are now among us in the Bishops times we had many Ministers who were no Preachers and now we have many Preachers who are no Ministers The upright man had rather be without his head piece then his breast plate and had rather men should account him for imprudent then God should accuse him for unfaithful An upright man will not let any interest byasse him from the truth Amicus Socrates sed magis amica veritas The Saints are compar'd to pillars Rev. 3. 12. the pillar stands upright Unsound Christians are ex salice like willows which will bend every way a good Christian is like the palm tree which grows upright Jerem. 10. 5. when we let men {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lord it over our consciences if they bid us break our vows sell our Religion we are ductile and malleable to any thing like hot iron which will be beat into any forme like wooll that will receive any die this argues much unsoundnesse of heart An upright Christian will not be bent awry he goes without stooping VII An upright Christian is zealous for God Rev. 2. 2. Thou canst not bear them which are evil uprightnesse is the white and zeal is the sanguine which makes the right complexion of a Christian Zeale is a mix'd affection 't is a compound of love and anger it boyles up the spirits to the height and makes them runne over zeale is a fire kindled from heaven blessed be its ang●● for it is without sinne and its wrath for it is against sin When Paul saw their idolatry at Athens his spirit was stirred in him Acts 17. 16. The Greek word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifies to be in a paroxysme Paul was in a burning fit of zeal Moses a meek man though cool in his own cause yet hot in Gods when Israel had committed idolatry Moses anger waxed hot Exod. 32. 19. He breaks the Tables grindes the calf to powder strows it on the water and made the children of Israel to drink of it An upright Christian takes a dishonour done to God more hainous then a disgrace done to himselfe can the true childe endure to heare the Father reproached When Craesus sonne though born dumb saw them go about to kill his father his tongue-strings unloosed and he cried out Kill not King Craesus He that can hear Christs Divinity spoken against by the Socinian his Ordinances cried down by the Libertine his blood not rise and his zeal not sparkle forth is a traitour to the Crown of heaven Did Christ open his sides for us when the blood run out and shall not we open our mouths in his vindication how were the Saints in former times fired with zeale for God They were as Cyprian affirmes tanquam leones ignem spirantes like Lions breathing forth the heavenly flame of zeal VIII An upright Christian will not allow himself in any known sin he dares not touch the forbidden fruit Gen. 39. 9. How then can I do this great wickednesse and sinne against God though it be a complexion-sinne he dis-inherits it There 's no man but doth propend and incline more to one sinne then another * as in the body there is one humour predominant or as in the hive there 's one master-Bee so in the heart there 's one master-sinne there is one sinne which is not only near to a man as the garment but deare to him as the right eye This sinne is Satans Fort royal all his strength lies here and though we beat down his out-works grosse sinne yet if we let him hold this fort of complexion-sin 't is as much as he desires The Devil can hold a man as fast by this one link as by a whole chaine of vices The fowler hath the bird fast enough by one wing Now an upright Christian will not indulge himself in this complexion-sinne Psalme 18. 24. I was also upright before him and kept my selfe from mine iniquity An upright Christian takes the sacrificing knife of mortification and runnes it through his beloved-sinne Herod did many things but there was one sin so dear to him that he would sooner behead the Prophet then behead that sinne Herod would have a gap for his incest An upright heart is not only angry with sinne which may admit of reconciliation but hates sinne * and if he sees this Serpent creeping into his bosome the nearer it is the more he hates it IX An upright Christian is right in his judgement he doth not lean to errour his head doth not turne round Though there will be differences in lesser matters things indifferent and disputable indeed where there are not such cleare vestigia and footings in Scripture here there must be some graines of allowance yet in the Fundamentals of Religion the upright Christian keeps his standing Error when it is not only circa but contra fundamentum is dangerous * a man may as well go to hell by error as by moral vice grosse sinne stabs to the heart errour poysons there is lesse hope of an erroneous person then a prophane the prophane person sinnes and doth not repent the erroneous person sinnes and holds it a sinne to repent the one is without tears the other cries down tears The upright Christian is not tainted with this leprosie in the head he hath rectitude in his minde X. An upright man is of a sympathizing spirit * he laies to heart the miseries of Sihon * This argues much sincerity Pliny speaks of the aurea vitis the golden Vine which feels no injury of winde or stormes The Church triumphant may be compared to this golden Vine which is above all stormes of injury and flourisheth in perpetual glory but the Church-militant is not a golden Vine but a bleeding Vine now where there is sincerity there is sympathy An hypocrite may be affected with his own miseries but an upright heart is affected with the Churches miseries I confesse an hypocrite may be sensible of the miseries of the publick so far as he himselfe is concern'd as a man may be troubled to heare of such a ship cast away wherein were much Merchants goods because he himself had a share in it and his Cabbin is lost But an upright Christian though he be not touched in his own particular he is out of the bill of mortality yet because it goes ill with the Church and