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Gen. xx. 5, he had boldness to expostulate and reason his case with God. An upright man in his sickness, or in any other calamity, yea, at all times, when he needs God's help, can be bold to come before God, notwithstanding his sin that remains in him, his original sin, and his many actual transgressions. So did Hezekiah, upon his death bed, as he thought, saying, Remember, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done good in thy sight, Isa. xxxviii. 3. So did Nehemiah, saying, Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy, Neh. xiii. 22. This uprightness gives boldness with God, but without all presumption of merit, as you see in good Nehemiah.

9. Lastly, Whatsoever the upright man's beginning was, and whatsoever his changes have been in the times that have gone over him, both in the outward and inward man, in his progress of Christianity; mark this, his end shall be peace, Psa. xxxvii. 37. The last and everlasting part which he shall act indeed, and to the life, is, everlasting happiness, Prov. xxviii. 18.

And, to contract all these motives into a short, but final sum, The Lord is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly, Psa. lxxxiv. 11.

SECT. 6. MEANS TO SUBDUE HYPOCRISY, AND PROMOTE UPRIGHTNESS.

It remains now that you should know by what means you may abate and subdue hypocrisy; and may get, keep, and increase this grace of uprightness.

First, You must, by a due and serious consideration of the evils of hypocrisy, and advantages of uprightness, fix in your heart, by the help of Christ, a loathing and detestation of the one, and an admiration, love, and longing desire of the other with a sincere purpose of heart, by the grace of God, to be upright. This must first be wrought, for until a man stand thus