412 harts %,tia;x net be r.airrd-of Gord. great things in them, and yet when they come to be examin'd are but meer vanity and emptineife : And they allure rhrsuçl, he l ft.; of the fle(h. There's more firength in the futablene!!e of what they fpeak to mess lulls, then there is of the evidence. of truth in what they fay, they all are through the lulls of the. llelh, t113rdugh much wantonelle, those that ere clean efcaped, the word is, really efcaped : So it's apparently tf;oken of Men tha are drawn aitde into errors, while they Fronde them liberty . they tell them much of liberty, that they !hall be delivered from fuck and fuch bondages, and no more be kept in a legal way of bondage, They prom:fe them liberty, but are tl em fclves the fervants o f corruption;O hence the many errors of our times do prevail, from the uncleanefs of the hearts of mer,. and from thence comes Apollacie from the truth : The belt way then to keep our (elves from the errors of the times, it is to keep dur hearts clean,; Purge your hearts, walk before God in up- rightnefs, and the Spirit of God (hall quid you then into alt truth, and when you are required to know God or his mind in anything ; ô. make it a great part of your work to cleanse your hearts fir((, for otherwiie you will mil}ake,when ou are about asking of Counfel what the mind of God is, O I would fain know what the mind of C od is, be fure you come with a clean heart to know ir, or o:herwife I fay, it's a hundred to one but you mifcarry How many are there that feeme to delire to know the mind of God, and yet in the piçft place,It's not through any willingnefs, but they cannot telhow to help it,theÿ mutt enquire:And then, Secondly, When they do enquire, they are loath that fuch things ihot.ld-be true, they are loath that the mind ofGod should go fuch a way that is againUt them, and O,.they would fain have the mind of God come to them, rather then to have their hearts conic to the mind of Cod, here's uncleanefs in the heart theft two', And Thirdly, When they are inqu,iring concerning the mind of Cod the e is a principle in t heir f1 irits, that. dog h turn, their h arts and lets them li rongly another way, and, hence it is fo ha d to convince men of the misdof God, if is be that that is againtl
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