[ 1766] The sincere upright Man, described.
IT is said of Pachomius a Religious Abbot,* 1.1 that digesting his numerous Monks into various Classes according to the letters in the Greek Alphabet, suited the names he gave them to the Natures he observed in them; As, for those whom he found Politicians and dissemblers,* 1.2 he compared to the letters ζ and ξ which are full of crooked turnings; those whom he observed to be plain-hearted and upright, to the letter ι, which is carried right upward without any obli∣quity at all:* 1.3 And thus it is, that the sincere upright Man is carried in a streight line to the performance of all Religious duties, he levells all his actions to a right end, the Loadstone of his Soul is not self-interest but Gods honour, he casts no squint-eye at by-respects, but looks directly forward at his Creator's glory.