folfe~inriching examination• . fifme inhis fecret-ch~D;lber, as in the light of the fight ofthe Sunne. Hee knowes full well; and is perfwaded in his heart) that without w-afhing rhe hcartthe~ecan be no falvation,wi thou,t the change ! ~ndchafbtyoftbe thoughts, and ftHthil;theinwatd1, · p4r.ttJ, there is no truerepent~nce: oJentfokm,fairh Ierentie, Chap.+ I·~· Waj}J thine heartfrom wic/?.gdneffe:J . th~t -thou maift hee- fo"l1e4,' :. How lottgjball thy 'lJaine tho11ghts remaioe within thee? If all the world befides , fuould approve _a'Qd applal:fd us, if-nor-a man upon . earth w,ere able to fay untous ,fo much as blacks ·. ·thine eye : Yet·if: our hearts were not upright beforeGod, we .were but.-damnable creatures, hol– J,ow.~hearted- profe!fors:, and -glorious hypocrites. · The tn~e Chrifrian confiders this;and fubmits him– felfe to the worke of Gods·grace,- in,fanetifying the ·deftres ~nd thoughts of his heart~' Hee hath much. ~rouble and toyle, and indeed a kinde of holy trade in gpverning;the heart, and managing the thoughts>1nwhich tl=t~~ UQregen,erate man hath no skill. Hee labours to keepe their founraine pure and cleere, to fetch their warrant our of th-e Word ofGod, that they may hold correfpondence and conformity tohis·will ; he ewer looks - kh way tbey.rend)that rheir ma~:ke and end beGods glory:> and the benefit of his Church and people. Ifany– thoughts ftart up in his heart, which are not thus - qualified and fanB:ified,he prefemly takes them to heart, flrives againfr them, praycs againft them~ repents for rhem,,and is humbled-by them And their is amyfiery in this re~imentof thoughts, of which it concernes the Chtill:ian to take fpedaU ..- notke, ( . I
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