3o Chap. t t . e4n expoft ion upon the Took,of JO B. Verf., this is a cleanneffe in the fight of God. In the conjunCiion of there two., MydoElrive is pure, andIam .clean in thy fight , We fee the two heads ofreligion , or the two main hinges upon which all religion turneth I. Purity of do- t-trine. 2. Ckanneffe of praïtice..HolineJ of life and foundneffe of opinion , conflitute a perfeaman ; Here's the character ofa C:hri- flian., in his compleatnefiè,. This was typified in the old Law by the Vrim and the Thtimmim ret in the breft-plate ofthe high-Prieft. Vrim typed purityof doEtrine, Thummim, cleanneffof life. This Motto fitted not only the Priefis of theold Teflament, or the Mi- niflers of the new,but befits every Chrifiian;Every believer íliould bear this upon his bread , Parity ofdoctrine , andcleanneffe oflife. Chrill checks the Pharifees )Mat.z3.2,3.) who had the former, but not the later, theyhad purity ofdo6trine , but they wanted integrity and holineffe oflife they fate in Mofes chair, and there- fore he biddeth his Difciples and the people, That all whatfoever they bad them obferve, that they íhould obferveanddoe , but (faith he) doe not ye after their works ; take heed of treading in their fleps : you maydo their words, but not their works ; why ? for they fay anddoe not ; though they havepurity of doftrine, they have not cleanneffe oflife. It is an ill hearing and a fad fpeCtacle, when there two are feparated. When purity ofdoCfrine,. and cleanneffe of life appear together in one perron, happy is that man ; änd he is a fit infirument to make others happy : but where either of there appears alone, or with its contrary , as a compa- nion , purity ofdoCtrine with uncleanneffe of life, or cleanneffe of life with errour and unfoundneffe of doCtrine : it is dangerous to embarke with, or come near fuch ; for themfelves are in great danger. Themfelves are in an ill condition, and they are fit inflruments to make others worfe. Unfound doCtrine frets like a canker, and an unclean life is catching like a leprofie. We are aptefi to take an unfound doCtrine from thofe whore lives are clean ; and we are apteCt to imitate their unclean lives, whore dorine is found. From the later branch, I am clean in thine eyes. Note. Firfi, Itfhoald notfatisfie iu that we are clean in the eyes ofmend unlefswecan approve oarfelves to Godall. For as not he that commendeth himrelf, fo not he, that is com= mended by others is approved , but whom the Lord commend sth, a Conic), J.S. Itisbut cold.comfort to clean in the eye of our
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