. \ cAll mendi-vided ilito mo1?.3n{e__.r. 'JI'J Chrifl: and(tmffijied through the Spirit fJ( (lod· To bewa!h~d , So then he is apure man,or a cleane man,that is, 1 from the guilt firfiwafhed from the guilt ofhis finnes, ~hat is, oflinnc. · that hath no finne lying upon his Confcience, ; that hathnot apolluted Confcienc~, which is a · phrafe ufedTitm r. whaft mii'Jde.r andconfciences Titus1~ ·are deftled~ Nowdefilemenr,orpolluti6 isin. the .Confcicnce, ( Divinesfay) .as a thing thatis ; knownf isin the facultie, or underll:anding that knowcsit;and therefore the m.anthathatb com– .mitred any linne, which yet continues upon. his ·O\vnkore,whi.ch hisconfcicnce is yet guilty of :.ant(for whiehhe hath not yet gotten an acquittancef~:om Almighty God~ heisanimpureman, he is yet undeanf,for he is notyet wajbedfrom his filthinu. Aman.againethat hath gotteR any af. .·rurance offorgivendfe, . fo that all his finnes are ·put upon the reckoning ofIefm chrij!, and there arcnone that lye upon his owne fcore, aman who hath made all his reckonings even with God,and hath fome a!lurance there.of,fuch.aman is wa!hed fro,xn his filthineff'e. Such a phr.afe you havelikewifein Ezech.36.25. I will cleanfe you Ezech.16.11. ' (or wafhyou )from~tUyour!dds · Thatis, from · all your Idolatry,' from all the finnes that you have commited, I will wail1·.you, .that is, with imput.ation,or fprinkling ofthebloudo.fChrifl. Thefe:-cond cleanetfe is, ,when a man is not .o.ndywafhed with the imputation of rhe bloud 2 ofChrij1,andthea{furance of pardon" but alfo FrottuheRaia wh.enhe is wafhed from the ll:aine offtnn~, when ofiinM. he is fancl:ified throughthe Spir.it,when fin ne is mortified ,
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