Ptetiou i suit). 431 every diaate, cherifh every illapfe of this blef- fèd Monitor; let every infpiration find thee as the Seal doth the Wax, and the fpark the Tin- der ; let thy Soul follow hard after him, pur- fuing him E ve(tigio, fiep by (cep, as near aiad dole as thou canft poííibly. This is the true way to refl. Again, if thou wouldefl have Affurance, firft make Confcience pure,and then walkafter it : That Pardon and Salvation, which is founded in Chrifts Blood and fealed by his Spirit, muff be recorded and reported in Confcience, or elfe there can be no Affurance ; If cur heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God, faith the Apofile, r Job. 3. 2 r. He al- lows what his Deputy doth in us ; I fay, make tby Confcience pure. Two things chiefly impure it; Ignorance is as a cloud upon it, and Guilt as a wound in it. Make it as lightfome as thou canft from Scripture, that as a pure glafs it may be fit to reflei`l: the Gofpel- Comforts on thy Soul. Get a through cure of thy old Wounds, or elfe fooner or later it will cry out againf thee : J'nfeph ftarted up in his Brethrens mind a good while after their unnatural fate of him. John the Bapti(t rote again in Herods Confcience upon the fame of Chrifls Miracles. Theodoric4 having cruelly murdred Boethius and Symmachus, was affrighted at the great head of a Fiíh at his own Table, as if it had been one of theirs whom he unjuflly put to death. Apply therefore Chrifts Blood by Faith, that thy Wounds may be healed. David after his grc?at
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