from deAd w1rlus,to forve the living G0 D.The meaning is this, if a man would haue his con– fcience purged from dead workes, let him la– bour for faith, whereby he may be jull:ified, let him labour to be fprinckled with the blond of chrifl, to haue 2fiurance of the forgiveneife and pardon ofhis finnes through his bloud,then ; he f11all have that Spirit put into his heart, that ' eternall Spirit, that !hall purge and.cleanfe his confcience from dead ·workes. So likewif~, 1\ Gill.3. Didyou r~ceive the Spirit by the. w.~rkes of the Law ? D1d you not rather receme1t by 1the hearing of faith preached-: And fo~ Gal. 5. \ F11itht~at worketh hy loue; thatis,it is faith that \ br_ings forth lone, and lou~ fets us on worke., All thefe lhew thus much unto us, that the befr way to heale any fl:rong 1ufi, the bell: way to change our hearts, toget viCtory over any fin, that it may not haue dominion over us, to haue our confcience cleanfed from dead workes, to be made partakers of the divine nature, is to grow up in the alfurance of the 1oue of God 1 to us in CH R. I s T, to get affurance of pardon 1 and forgiuenelfe :·for, know this, if the heart I doe no more but looke to the Commarlde1\ ment, ifyou heare onely that there are fi1ch . duties to be done, and confider them, and you \ ,compare your owne hean and the . Comm~ml'dement together, there growes aquarrell be1 tweene~he heart and the Commandemenr, an ; \ exace-rbation betwe~ne them, an:i an enmitie, I , t~ey looke one upon another as enemies; but , whro .l ------~----------------------·~----------~
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