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spiritual endeavours. If he essay to do what he can, and call to God for his help, and when he has it, is glad, and willing to improve it, this is the true endeavour, which, concurring with the two former acts, purpose and desire, gives proof of uprightness.

There is a twofold uprightness; the one of the heart and person, the other of the action. I have described the uprightness of the person. And then an action is upright, when a man does not dissemble, but means, as he saith, intending as much as is pretended, whether it be in actions toward God or man. The first is, when the heart of man agrees with, and in the intention thereof, is according to the will of God. The second is, when the outward act agrees with, and is according to the heart of him that does it.

SECT. 3. RULES TO JUDGE OF UPRIGHTNESS.

That you may rightly judge whether you are upright or no; first, take certain rules for direction, to rectify your judgment; then observe the marks of uprightness.

First, Uprightness being part of sanctification, is not fully perfect in any man in this life; but is mixed with some hypocrisy, conflicting one against the other. It has its degrees, sometimes more, sometimes less; in some things more, in some things less, according as each part prevails in the opposition, and according as the Christian grows or decays in other principal and fundamental graces.

Secondly, A man is not to be called an upright man, or an hypocrite, because of some few actions wherein he may show uprightness or hypocrisy: for an hypocrite may do some upright actions, in which he does not dissemble, though he cannot be said to do them in uprightness; as Jehu destroyed the wicked house of Ahab, and the idolatrous priests of Baal, with all his heart, 2 Kings x. And the best man may do some hypocritical and guileful actions, as, in the matter of Uriah, David did, 1 Kings xv. 5. It is not the having