35o MeanJ to get ag()odConfclence. : Cap.25. Chrift is' tha alone which inaketh the Con.. . --.- fcience clean efore God, that there is n?w r no more Conjcience of fin, as to theguilt and ftot ofit. So Heb. 10. 29. T~ebloude[tbe Co.;. · · venant is, that whereby the beleever is fan– tl:ified. ~atfoever other means. are ufed, & cour!es ar~ taken, as_by confefEon ,contri– tion, fatisf~B:ion, reading, praying, fafring, , building Alm$-houfes or the like, they are no more ( without this ) to the commend– ingof the Co.hfcience unto God, or taking ·away fin fito · theConfcience, than Adam's Fig-leaves t take away the ibame-of his na– kedndfe ; r the waibing of Pilatu handJ in fair watrt to cleanfehis foul from the foul fin of. Bloud-guilt~ne£fe. He ibould have waibedhis heart in the bloud of Chrift, than had he been free from all his fins, and not . ' his hands in water, that he might be free q,ach.13.1·from the bloud of Chrift. ·His bloudisthat Fo~mtain opened to the houfe ofDavid, and the inhabitants of Terufalem for fin and for · uncleanneffe. This bloud of Chdft we iliould pray patheth~ally and fervently, as the Jewudid pa.ffionately and furioufly}that . , it may be upon u.J and on our Childrtlfl; not on our heads,but on our hearts, not to be charVul~e~a. ge!d upon us, but fprinkled on . us, not by C~riflz cz- way ' of imputation, but of txpiatisft. The , ·•mates rt· d f Cb ;a c· f R r fogii. woun s o rT.r are our tty o . . ~ruga, 1 Sanguis faid one: And the blond of Chrzft IS the Cbrifti fons well ofBethlehem, which we iliould long for, Beth,ebemi. and break through an hoft of difficulties to {;~·6·S3· come unto. Except we drinftthn bloud we /.Jave 1111
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