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application of the Point, 44t dreadful to you : Now you can defile your f Ives with unclean thoughts, with covetous thoughts,nowfecretly you deh le your hearts, you.defile your (elves with unjuftice, by fa! e gait and think roger to your felves that way, and fo your fouls are dee- led,well,this defilement of your fouls will makeGod dreadful to you one day; therefore go away with this as your portion, ail you that have defil'd your confciences with unjuft gain, and with the tufts of the fleth, go away with this from God darted upon ycu : -Well, this will make the fight of God the tnoft forcing that ever can be, when God than appeare : ô then learn we to purifie our hearts what we can : you whole con - fciences tell you there is much. uncleanefle in you: red not un- til you come to find your corfciences cleanfedby the blood of the Lamb, fanc`tified by his Spirit, fall down before the Lord, O Lord I am an unclean wretch, and by that that I have heard this day, there is that truth prefented to me that l+fikesupotj my confcience, that this fecret uncleaneffe that no eye in the world ever faw, yet thy eyes having Peen, it's that that will make thy prefence terrible to me, Lord cleanfe nie, wath me, and purge me with hyfop : We read in the 34 'Ter: '3 And thou fhalt not efcape out of his hand, but fhalt furelf be taken, and delivered into his hand, and thine eyes (hall behold the King of Babylon, and he (hall fpeakto thee month to mouth, and thou fhalt go to B,sbylon : Here s a threatning to Zedel¿iah, that his eyes fhould behold the eyes of the King of Babylon; that's thus : Zedekiah had dealt treacheroufly with the King. of Babylon, N-- and thought to thifc and provide for himfelf, and thought he was_ far enough from the King of Babylon, well, faith God in a way of threatning : Thou tfunkefl to fhift and provide for thy [elfrhus,,but thine eygs fhall fee the King of Babylon : So I fay to all you who deal treacheroufly with Gód, wiho live in any un- cleattlufts, and yet make thew as if you would ferve God, and make profeflion of his name, O you hypocrites that make pro - feflion -of Religion and yet deal treacheroufly with God, this I fay; to you this day, your eyes (hall fee him, but is (hall be a moft dreadful! thing TO you Labour then to cleanfe your hearts, take heed of unclean thoughts, labour for pure hearts L 1 1 And

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