'I ~w9ulddy'e. that Imight have chrift and · hi~ ·righteou.fnelfe. Is ~hisall? No)itis ·required · further, that when thou artcomein, thou take ! ·this refolution, now .I will fcrue hi-m, now I ; ·will .Iove ·him,now I will .obey him, I will be c~ntentto take lefm C~rifl,for6etter;for-worfe; ' Iwillbecontent to denymyfelfe, to rake up '· my Crolfe, to follow :fiim -in all his wayes. Whe~amans -fpirir ·harh ·p<:>ndered this well, ·when he · hath looked on the bloud of lift# ~chri{l, and the promifes, and fees himfelfe -qualified upon this, he fairh,farely, thefe pror mifes belongtomee, .-;his-is the witnelfe ofthe l lbloud. l i The witnea · · ThenfoUow~sthewitnelfe ofthe water; for -ofthe water. the·bloud hath a dGuble vertue in it, it hath not · · onely thevertue to deliverusfrom_the g·uilt of 1 finne, to caufe the Lordto palfe"verus; w·hen I . · hee fees the fprinkling of the hloud upon ' onr hearts, and ·upon our perfons, b11tthere is : more, it hath a cleanfing venue in it, itdenferh , the confCience from dead workes; and fo hath . faith, "it hath not onely.·vertue in it, to receive; · andtodigell:and to-take' the promifes, but it- , ·hath an abilide to worke-; -as the hand, you " kno~;harb two offices,it hath an officeto re . . . ceive, · ~ndtotake, and likewife it hath abititie : io w~r~e. ':Beloved, thefe are never disj.oyn~d, · ), - the,bloud never walheth f.rom fin, butltkew1fe · t - itclenfeth the c0nfcience from dead workes; 1 • ~ ..·. f~~t~ ~ev~rreceive_s th~ ·pro~i(e, .-but it workes .; 1tkewtfe:mdeedfQr-the·recetvtng -pa~ts we .re- .:. ' •• • · j ·ceive.: ~----------~----- I
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