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doing. 7. From the effects that follow evil doing. 8. From the conflict which shall be found between uprightness and hypocrisy.

First, The upright man is universal in his respect to the whole will of God, Psa. cxix. 6.

(1.) In an unfeigned desire and endeavour to know what manner of man he ought to be, and what he ought to do, Psa. cxix. 33, 34. He would know and believe any one part of God's will, so far as it may concern himself, as well as another; threats as well as promises, commandments as well as either; and that not some, but all the threats, all the promises, and all the commandments; coming to the light readily, that his deeds may be made manifest, John iii. 21.

He is willing to know and believe what he should do, as well as what he should have, and hope for. But the hypocrite does not so, he winks with his eyes, and is willingly ignorant of that sin, which he would not leave, Matt. xiii. 15. 2 Peter iii. 5, and of that duty which he would not do, and of that judgment which he would not feel. He is willing to know the promises of the gospel, but willingly ignorant of the precepts of the gospel, and of the conditions annexed to the promises.

(2.) His universal respect to God's will is not only to know but to do, and to submit unto it in all things, willing to leave and shun every sin; willing to do every thing which he knows to be his duty; willing to bear patiently, thankfully, and fruitfully, every correction wherewith the Lord does exercise him. He dislikes sin in all. He loves grace and goodness in all. He would keep a good conscience in all acts of religion towards God, Acts xxiv. 16, and in all acts of righteousness and sobriety towards and amongst men. He would forbear not only those sins to which his nature is not so much inclined, or to which his condition in life affords not so many temptations; but those to which his nature and condition of life most carry him; he will cross himself in his dearest lust, especially his formerly beloved sin; his own sin, as David calls it, Psa. xviii. 23. Neither does he endeavour