of his Countenance. For his fair Speeches are always attended with honeft Dealings; and what he once promifeth, he is punctual in making it Good, though it be to his own Prejudice.

He is a Man that loves a good Name and Reputation, as well as any one, and is extremely tender of it; but yet he fcorns to make use of any evil Arts, either for the curing, or preferving it.

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And, confequently, he is a Man that hates all mean and fervile Compliance, and will neither fpeak nor do any Thing against the Senfe of his Mind for the humouring any, Flattery and Diffimulation he abhors, and he dares fpeak his Mind, when he judges it fit and reasonable; even though he knows the doing it will give Offence.

And as he is perfectly averfe to all Fawning and Flattery; fo he is above Envy and Detraction. He never leffens another Man to make himself greater; nor looks upon the Profperity of his Neighbour with an evil Eye; backbiting, and carrying about idle Stories, is not the Thing he lives by. He puts a fair Conftruction upon other Mens Words and Actions, and will rather conceal a real Fault, than make it worfe in the reporting it. He hopes and thinks the beft of all Men; and rejoyceth in the Happiness of those about him. He doth as much Good as he can; and that Good that is done by others, he is so far from envying, that he thanks God for it, as if he had done it himself.

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He is a Man of great Plainnefs and Simpli city, apert and open, and free in all his Cartiage. You may always know where to have him, for his Words and his Thoughts always go together. And though he is careful not to be lavish of his Speech, nor at all Times to discover all his Mind; yet he is as careful, that what he doth speak fhall be agreeable to Truth; and he fo fpeaks it, that those that hear him, may take Measures of his Mind from it.

He is a Man, who though he be very watchful of Opportunities to do himself Good, and very fagacious in 'pying Dangers, and avoiding them; yet he never ufes any indirect Means, either for the benefiting or fecuring himself. He fcorns to make Advantages of any Man's Neceffities: Nor will he undermine another for the effecting of his own Defigns. Deceit and Collufion are Strangers to all his Dealings. Above all Things he hates a Trick; and in his Account, to be a Man of Intrigues, a cunning or a fhrewd Fellow, is but a more gentile Term for a Knave.

In a Word, the Defigns he proposeth to himself are all Honeft and Juft, and such as tend to the Good of the Community as well as his own, but to no Man's Lofs or Hindrance. And the Means he ufeth for accomplishing these Designs, are all fair and regular; and fo free is both his Heart and his Actions from all Imposture, that he cares not if all the World were privy to them.

This is the Man that is Upright in his Con verfation towards Men. The Man that with the Wisdom of the Serpent, joins the Innocence and Simplicity of the Dove.

But thus much of the Upright Man as a private Perfon; let us now view him a little under a more confpicuous Character. Let us confider him as a Magiftrate intrufted with the Management of publick Affairs. (Which is the Second Particular we are to infift on under this Head) And here the Upright Man is ftill the fame, acted by the fame Principles, purfuing ftill the fame Defigns we have hitherto mentioned. Only his Vertues have another Sphere and another Object, and therefore require another Confideration.

The great Thing he propofeth to himself, in taking any Office upon him, is, The Glory of God and the Publick Good. The Honour and Dignity of the Place, and the other worldly Advantages that may attend it, are but fecondary Confiderations with him. The Firft is his main Defign, which he steadily and conftantly purfues throughout the whole Adminiftration of his Office; the other is never thought on, but with Subordination to the former.

And therefore acting from fuch Principles as thefe, we may eafily conclude him to be a Man, whofe Counfels and Actions are not fteer'd by the Wind of popular Applaufe, but by the Senfe of his Duty. He ftudies not to ingratiate himself with Men, but to discharge a good Confcience. He is more careful to

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be a good Magiftrate, than to be a loved one; though (fo happily are Things contriv'd, that) in being the former, he rarely fails of the latter.

The Confequence of which is, that he is a Man of great Courage and Boldness, and Refolution. He dares to do whatfoever is fit and juft, and conducive to the publick Good, what Discouragements foever he meet with. Neither the Menaces of the Mighty, nor the Murmurings of the Multitude, can fright him from his Duty. For he dreads none but God; nor fears to do any Thing but what is misbecoming him.

But then he is a Man that doth not refolve Things haftily, and upon the Confideration of a few Particulars, but takes good Advice, and useth mature Deliberation before lie determines himself. He doth nothing precipitately But weighs all Things reprefented to him, as impartially as he can. His Ears are open to all Parties, and he debates what is faid, without Paffion or Prejudice, or Pre-poffeffion; and he always confiders more what is fpoken, than who it is that speaks it.

He is a Man, whom you cannot so much difoblige, as by attempting to corrupt him. Neither the Regard of his Profit, nor his Kindness to his Friends, can, in Matters of Right, tempt him to act against his inward Sense. As to thefe Things he is as blind as Juftice herself, and you may as foon draw the Sun from his Line, as him from the fready and ftrict Paths of Righteousness.

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He is a Man that looks upon his Office rather as a Burthen, than a Preferment. And therefore he is wonderfully folicitous about the well discharging it. His Care and Study is chiefly employed upon the Publick; and he rather fuffers the Mifcarriage of his own Affairs, than that the Community, by his Negligence, fhould receive any Prejudice. While others are doing their own Bufinefs, he is watching for the common Good; for he always remembers, that he is a publick Perfon, and that the Time and Strength that God affords him, are not his, but theirs, by and for whom he is intrufted.

He is a Man that imploys all his Power and Intereft, as much as is poffible, for the Maintenance of the Worship and Service of God, and the Defence and Encouragement of the true Religion. For he confiders God, as the firft and principal Perfon to be respected in all Governments and Societies, as being not only the Author, but the Head of them. And he remembers, that Religion doth so much influence the Civil State, that the Happiness and Ruin of Cities and Kingdoms are link'd with the well or ill Management of it.

And in Pursuance of this his Zeal for God and Religion, he takes Care, as much as in him lies, to encourage those Persons that are Vertuous and Good, and to fupprefs and bring out of Credit all Vice and Debauchery, all Impiety and Irreligion, all Faction and Disorder, together with the Maintainers and Abettors of them.

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