The impurity of mens hearts. 401 ry thing; you will not be fatisfied that there is not a deale of dart upon them, but if they be but any way fullied, you are not well pleased O looke thus unto your hearts , the Lord loves as it were aneát Chriitian(as I may fó call it)_hat every day will be cleanfing of his heart anew, and efpecially if you, have bean overcome with any fin, and fo b. ought g-eater de- filement upon your hearts, c.oe not lie in that iìn, never be at refs and peace wvi;h your foules,till you have got that fin wailat away in the blo )d of Ch, iii; until! you have got peace in your Confciences in retped`t of chat fin ;; I feare tome of you may have yourconlLiences tell you than you have laine in some fans for a long time together ; °Dàvid had !.tine a long time in tint, O cake heed of lying in any tin ; but clean1e prelèncly And I í11y, becauïe I would come to the prromife, O how faire are.mof1 of us from this cleannefle of heart ; and what in nice Caufe there is that thame and confuf on of face fhould be among many of us, the Lord knowes, and our Con- sciences know, that there is wofull uncleanne% and filthineffe in many of our hearts, O what defiled Confciencés have ma- ny men and women in this place," it may be you are neate in your bodies, neate Garments, cleáne linnen ; But O the filthy natty foules that you have within , God doth look upon your foules as filthy as a Cation that lies in a ditch ; how canft thou come into the prefence of God fo as thou doeft; fo boldly, fo , prefutnpuoufly, when thou art Confcious to thy felfe of firth filchineffe : Men of corrupt Confciences, that have committed many aóls of .Iwuflice, that have defiled their Confciences many yeares together , yet they lie in it Hill, and never have made any Retlitution. Now fo.long as thou haft got any thing that is not thine owne, and thou haft not reflor'd it, all this while thy Confcience bath been putrifying, and become more and more rotten ; As long I fay, as thou continueft in that fin . withou- making reflitution, if God Both any way finable thee : -- And then the Confciences of men are impure, aboundance of fin Coif, ience filth to charge them withal! ; If God should brr bid Confcience fpeak, ir would fay, Lo-d this fin was com- mitted againfi my counfell and 'advice, and I (hewed them to F the
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