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<p>Here is, 1. The qualification of an accomplished, a complete gentleman, that is fit to be employed in public business. He must be an honest man, a man <i>that loves pureness of heart</i> and hates all impurity, not only pure from all fleshly lusts, but from all deceit and dissimulation, from all selfishness and sinister designs, that takes care to approve himself a man of sincerity, is just and fair from principle, and delights in nothing more than in keeping his own conscience clean and void of offence. He must also be able to speak with a good grace, not to daub and flatter, but to deliver his sentiments decently and ingeniously, in language clean and smooth as his spirit. 2. The preferment such a man stands fair for: <i>The king</i>, if he be wise and good, and understand his own and his peoples interest, <i>will be his friend</i>, will make him of his cabinet-council, as there was one in Davids court, and another in Solomons, that was called the <i>kings friend</i>; or, in any business that he has, the king will befriend him. Some understand it of the King of kings. A man <i>in whose spirit there is no guile</i>, and whose speech is always with grace, God will be his friend, Messiah, the Prince, will be his friend. <i>This honour have all the saints</i>.</p>