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Thins.
for
unmerciful)
men
tú
confider-of;
Seventhly,
Know
this,
and this
is
á
inain
thing,
not
Only
carnal' people,
but
many
that do. profefs Religton.are
very
guilty
herein,
they
have many
of
them very ridgid
and
cruel
hearts,
they
think
to
put
off
(;od
with going
to
hear
Sermons,
praying
in
their
familyes,
and
it, may
be keeping
rhemfelves
from the de
lrmencs of the
times,.
and they
look
after ordi
glances, and
purity
of
ordinances, in there things
they do well
to
do
fo,
but
while thou
arcdoing
fo, for
thee
to
light
the
work
of
mercy towards
chofe
that
are
in
mfery,
know
char
all
there
as
of
thy
Religion
are
throve
by
hdd
as
filth
and
dung
in
thy
face
;
hod
cares
for none
of
the
a
is ofReligion
where there
is
an
unmerciful
heart,
be
-
never.
fo
forward
in
hear
ing,in
!.raying, in
facing)
in
any
ordinances
of
Lod,
yet
when.thy heart
is
unmerciful;
the Lord defpifes thyo:fertn.,.,
elefpies
all
the
duties of Religion
that
thou
perfortneíl,
take
two
or
three
Scriptures
for this
ch
at.
are
obferveable; the
lira
is,
that
in
james
7i-,
27.. Pure
Religion
and
undefiled
1
efore
god
and
the Father,-is
this,to vifit thefatherlefs and
wicUs;vs
sn
their
afÈiíion,
and.tolZecp
"himfclfunfp?tted
from the
world.
This
is-
!titre
Religion
and
undefiled before
Cod
and
the Father, to
via
the
facherlefs and
widdows
in
their
a$iiction.
If
-this
text
Were in
the
Old Te(lament
we
should
have
f
me
fay
that
chia
is
a
legal
thing, but
here
you
fee.
the
Aooíale
hash
it
in
the.
New
Teftament,
and
tels
you
that pure Religion
confifls in
,
this
You
that
would
be kept
from
the defilements
of the
vorld,'from defilements
in
woríhip,,
and
have your
Religion
more pure
-then
others,
look
to
your
Religion
to
this, here's
purity of Religion. Pare
Keltgion
and
'undefiled
before
God
and
the
Father,
is
this,
to
vifit thefatherlefs and
widdows
In
their
of
-'
f
iíLion,
I
would we had more
Puritans
of
this kind,
fuch
-I
?uritans
that are pure
in
this Religion,
that
have bowels
of
-mercy towards
others
:
--=
And
that
Scripture that
you have
likewife
inthe
5,8
()Ufa:
is
very remarkable
for-this,
if
you
read divers expre'Eons that
you
have
there,
it's
exceeding
ful,
,v, 3.
Wherefore
have
wefafledi
fay
they) and th
;u
fecft
not,
&c.
Behold
ye
fall
for
f
ri
re
and
debate,
and
to
finite with
the
fig
of
wickednef
è:
It
were wel
we had
never
.any
fuch fails,
to
fall
for