Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

Anun(ound · heartcannot · but rc:lapfe. ::]?et.z. ,I -4·. OF MANS felft;even as hee is pare. Solikewife,z Corin .7 .· · I Since wehaueJuchpromifu,let tU cleanftourfelues · from allpollutionofjlejhand_(jirit: That is, thofe · that haue thefe promifes & belceueth them, will be fiill cleanfing ofthemfelues-:: ·Contrary to which is that gener-ation fpoken of,Prover6s 3o. I z.There is age!Jerationthat are pure in their owne eyes,6utyet they cleanfe not themfe!uesfrom their< flthine(fe. So that, my beloved, to hauea puri~fied difpofition, to haue a heart and·afpirit rea– dy to deanfe it felfe, this is to .haue a perfect heart: . So that a go.dlf man, ,he may be many: titncsdefiled with finne &uncleanneife, he may•. haue his heart many times muddy and impure,, he may haue it clouded an<h:>vercafr with·paffi- · ons and unrulyatfeCt:ions, butyctitcleares upa– gaine,and " h~e comesout ofthemallwith more – brighrnefTC!,and w-ith more clearendfe and pure– neffeofheart.· The ftibl1ance ofit is this: we . deny not that a godly ·man may £.11linromany finnes,into many.impurities,.imo ··many ·defile– mems, out yet he arifeth out of diem againe by . an affiduous and dayly repentance, and fiill he growes·updaylyto more and more perfection; as·David;and·Hezeki.u.and the refi;whereas,on . theotherfide, amanthat hath'an imperfed: and , unfoundheart, though he he recovered out ofa .finne againe,and againe,yet heretumesto ir,asit , is faid,2PU~2.14.menthat haue eyes.ful ofadult e .. . ry ,that cannotceafe toJin:thanvhich is f.1idofthat . I finne there ( they cannot ceafe to (trme :· that is; . :thqughthey make·many Covenant~ with God, . , I tO ;

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