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and glorify God, even out of that duty he owes to him, and from that high and awful estimation which he has of God's sovereignty, and from that entire love which he bears unto him. He that habitually in doing of common and earthly business, though they concern his own good, has a will to do them with a heavenly mind, and to a heavenly end, certainly stands well, and is uprightly resolved, although, in temptations and fears, he does not always feel the said resolution.

But the hypocrite does not so: he only or chiefly aims at himself, Matt. vi. 2, 5, 16, and in his aim serves himself in all that he does. If he look to God's will and glory, as sometimes he will pretend, he makes that but the bye, and not the main end, 2 Kings x. 16; he seeks God's will and glory not for itself, but for himself: not for God's sake, but for his own. Thus did Jehu.

Sixthly, An upright man may know he is upright, by the effects that follow upon his well doing.

(1.) His chief inquiry is, and he does observe, what good comes by it, and what glory God has had, or may have, rather than what earthly credit and benefit he has gotten to himself, Philip. i. 12 - 20. Or if this latter thrust in itself before the other, as it will oft-times in the best, he is greatly displeased with himself for it. The hypocrite not so; all that he inquires after, and is pleased with, after he has done a good deed, is, what applause it has amongst men, &c.

(2.) When an upright man has done a praise-worthy action, he is not puffed up with pride, and high conceit of his own worth, glorying in himself; but he is humbly thankful unto God; thankful, that God has enabled him to do any thing with which he will be well pleased, and accept as well done; humble and low in his own eyes, because of the manifold failings in that good work, and because he has done it no better; and because whatsoever good he did, it was by the grace and power of God, not by any power of his own. Thus David showed his uprightness in that solemn thanksgiving when he said, But who am I, and what