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 that loves pureness of heart 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: The king, if
he be wise and good, and understand his own and his people's interest,
will be his friend, will make him of his cabinet-council, as there was
one in David's court, and another in Solomon's, that was called the
king's friend; or, in any business that he has, the king will befriend
him. Some understand it of the King of kings. A man in whose spirit
there is no guile, and whose speech is always with grace, God will be
his friend, Messiah, the Prince, will be his friend. This honour have
all the saints.