Allmen di1Jided into tnro ??.!!n,k._es. mortified in him,when iris as well healed, as -torA try:~U of . A d h f h iancti6carion• . giVen. n · t erfore i t on wouldft kno ,z;\vhetherthou art adeane man or polluted, confider alfo:this) whetherthou haft acleane heart or no, that is, whether thou hall: fi1ch an ·habituall dif– pofition ofpurity and cleanneife-, that thou canfr not endure to looke upon any fin, no more than a man that is ofa neat and cleane difpofition,can endureto fee filthinelfe; whether thou hall: fi1ch a difpofition, as that although thou be fprinkled withfinnefrom day to day,rhoughrhou be fow– led and fpotted with it,yet thou fuffereft it not to abide in thy heart; thy heartworkesitout,aswe . faid to you before. . So that this you are toobferue, to finde out the cleannetreofa mans difpofttion,whether he can looke upon ftnne,as an~ncleane thing, as a thing from which his fou:Ie hath an avedion, as a thing that heabhorres; thatis, although there be fame thing in him,that lovesit, that delights in it, that likesit, yet the prevailing part of the foulc ab– horres it.Both the cleanc: and polluted may for– fakefinne_,andmaytnrneaway from linne, and therefore in that the differenceisnot feen;but the difference is in this, thatthouart able to hate and abhorre fin,to Iooke on it asa. thing that is filthy and uncleane. AMerchant, youknow, will call: onthisgoods_, when he is in danger of his life, · .... but he hates nothisgoods:Soa man may call: a. ·way finne,whenitputs him in danger of linking _ intohell,orofthe judgementsqfmen. Iris one thing to pa-rt with ftn, and another thing to hate &~ A •
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