' J All m·en di11ided into trvo 1(an~r. 52~ a youtJg man,where lufis are firong, where the lbineis deepe-,and will not out wi rhout Fullers fope: Ddvid Pfol.II9,·9· faith, that the word clen{eth the heart, &c. Wherewith jha/1 ayoung nM» cle1v[e·his heart?By tAking heedto thy Word. 7 They cleanfe tae.hcart Pial,li99• Now then examine thy felfe,whetherthou fo performeft thefe Ordinances, and holy duties, that Godcommands thee,thatthou find rhde ef– fects ofthem:lfthou doell:,then thou artone thAt focrificeth, ifotherwife,thenthouartonttkat fo– crijiath not: and therefdreconfiderwhethenhy ' heart bewarmed by them; Ifthey be to thee as painted fire,fiJCh as hath no heate,rhou dofi ~ot facrifice, it isbut an outward forme: confider if ' they quicken thy heart,or if it be as dead)andas backward, andasindifpofed to good duties,and asprone to things that are evill, after thou hafi performed them as before : If fo, though thou feeme to facrifice, yetthou art in the number of thofe that facrifice not:doeft thou find that they doe not divide the fldh and the fpirit, that they are as alword without an edge, that they are falt that biteth not,which dotb not clenfe the heart l Itisanargumenttho~doell:not performe them ' as thou fhouldefl:: for there is a iharpnelfe in holy Ordinances, that makes us found iq the faith, becaufethey difcoverto us the fecret cor · ruptionoftheheart. Doefithou finde thy lulls as firongastheywere~ Are they qot , cleanfed • I '' ' · out r: Itis a figne thou doefl: not ufe the [cow– ring as thou ihouldeft: and {owe may fay ofall the refi.Doell: thou nqde the Word to fall upon CCf thy .
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