Bolton - HP BV4500 .B62 1634

Irrrem.4' 14, Generall direcIions for a ..=am............1 cares, tongue,hands, feet : for even as they were members of thebody before imployed wholy for. Satan and fenfualitic ; fonow are they alfo become inftruments of righteoulbeffe unto God. God begets no mot-liters, as they fay : a chide new-borne, bath all the parts ofa man, though not theper- fecction of his growth : So a new-borne babe in Chrift is throughly, and univerfally changed ; though not yet a per- feet man inChrift. 2. Sinceritieofchange : as well in heart, and inward parts, as in lifeand outward carriage. O lerufalem, faith the Prophet, wafh thine heartfromwickednefe, that thou mayefl bepved : how long fhall thy vaine thoughts lodge with- in thee ? No externall priviledges ofReligion, though never to glorious ; no exaaneffe of the worke wrought ; no Pha rifaicall formesofdevotion ; no outward behaviour, bee it never fo blameleffe ; no coil or contributions in the fervicz of God, will ferve the turtle without finceritie of heart, Though a man fhould come before the Lordwith thoufands of Rammes, or tome thoufitnds ofrivers of Ojle : fhould he give firfl bornefor his tranfreffion, the fruit of hu body , for theApse ofhiofbule : fhould bee beflow all his goods tofeede the poore, andgive his body tobe burned : were he able to compre- hend within his braine the whole Booke ofGod , and with the largeneffe of his underflanding devoure all that holy fence : fhould he and drinke up at the LordsTable , all the fanetified Bread an Wine ; were beeplunged over head and cares in the WaterofBaptifme : nay, if it were pofftble, wafhecl outwardly from top to toe in the precious bloodof Chrif} ; yet all this were more then all in vaine, and utterly unavaileable , without uprightneffe of the heart , and purl.- tie in the inward parts. 3, Spirituall growth. Vnregene ratemenat the bell, growbut in thegeneralities , devout reprefentations, and temporary forwardneffe of for- mall Chriflianity. Which is like thegrowth ofcome on the bottle top; or the feedefpringing out of the ftony ground ; but the honeft and good heart bringeth forth fruite with patience. Spirituall ftuntings there may bee,, and ftandings at. flay for a time. But,as good come in a good Foyle be- ing

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