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The proper seat of this grace is the will.

The fountain in man, from whence, through the special grace of the Holy Ghost, it springs, is sound knowledge of God and of his will, concerning those things which the will should choose and refuse; and from faith in Christ Jesus, through whom every believer does, of his fulness, receive this grace to be upright. Hereby Christian uprightness differs from that uprightness, which may be in a mere natural, superstitious, and misbelieving man, for even such may be unfeigned in their actions in their kind, both in actions civil and superstitious, doing that which they do, in their ignorance and blindness, without dissimulation either with God or man. This Paul did before his conversion, he did as he thought he ought to do, Acts xxvi. 9.

The form and proper nature of uprightness, is the good inclination, disposition, and firm intention of the will to a full conformity with God's will, and that not in some faculties and powers of man, or in some of his actions, but the Christian would be universally sincere in all his parts, and in all things; he would be, and do, as God would have him to be and do, making God's will, revealed in his word and works, to be his will, and God's glory to be his end.

This holy uprightness expresses itself in these three things:

First, It shows itself in a well-grounded and unfeigned purpose and resolution to cleave to the Lord, and to make God's will to be his will, Acts xi. 23; Psa. cxix. 57, 106. This is an act of the will, guided and concluded from sound judgment.

The second act is, an unfeigned desire and longing of the heart to attain this good purpose and resolution, willing or desiring in all things to live honestly, Heb. xiii. 18, and to live worthy of the Lord in all wellpleasing; longing, with David, after God's precepts, Psa. cxix. 40. This is an act of the affection of desire, a motion of the will, drawing and exciting a man forward, giving him no rest, until he have obtained, at least in some good measure, his said purpose.