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know, as well as any, and that because the same God who has given one, has given all, James ii. 11. If so, then you obey out of conscience. 2. Consider what you do, or would do, when Christ, and his true religion, and his commandments go alone, and are separated from all outward credit, pleasure, and profit. Do you, or will you then cleave to Christ, and to the commandment? Then love of Christ, fear of God, and conscience of God's command, was, and is the true cause of your well-doing; especially if you choose and endeavour this, when all these are by the world clothed with peril and contempt. 3. Consider whether you can go on in the strict course of godliness alone, and whether you resolve to do it though you shall have no company, but all or most go in the way of sin, and also persuade you thereunto. When you will walk with God alone, and without other company, this shows that your walking with God is for his sake. So walked Noah, Gen. vii. 1, and Elijah, 1 Kings xix. 13, as he thought.

But the cause of an hypocrite's well-doing is only goodness of nature, or good education, or mere civility, or some common gifts of the Spirit, or self-love, slavish fear, or the like. See this in Ahab's repentance, 1 Kings xxi. 27, in Jehu's zeal, 2 Kings x. 16, and Joash's goodness, 2 Chron. xxiv. Ahab's humiliation was only from a slavish fear of punishment. The zeal of Jehu was only from earthly joy and carnal policy; for had it been in zeal for God, he would as well have put down the calves at Dan and Bethel, as slain the priests of Baal. And the goodness of Joash was chiefly for Jehoiadah's sake, whom he reverenced, and to whom he esteemed himself beholden for his kingdom, and not for God's sake. For the Scripture saith, that after Jehoiadah's death, the princes solicited him, and he yielded to them, and fell to idolatry; added this also, he commanded Zechariah the high-priest, Jehoiadah's son, to be slain, because, in the name of the Lord, he reproved him for his sin, 2 Chron. xxiv. 6, 17, 18, 20, 21.

(2.) The upright man's actions, as they come from