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Cleane
perfons,
typet
of
Chrifi.
169
be truely
humbled
and
prepared
for
Chrif},
nor
can
ex-
pert
a
good
ef}ate
in
him, whofe
daily
corrupt
iflues
from
an
overflowing
fountaine
make him
not
feeme
marvelous
filthy
and
uncleane
in
his
owne
eyes.
I.
What
is
the
reafon
that
fo
many
do
Pharifaically
pride themfelves,
ifnot
in
the gpodneffe
of
their per
-
fons,
yet
in
forme
blinde hopes
and prefumptions
that
they
be
not
fo
bad
as
they
are,
or
as
fome
others
be
but
becaufe they
never
faw themfelves in this
glaffe;
which
onely
lets
a
man fee
himfelfe
a
maffe
offinne,
a
lump
of
unclemneffe
and
that no
good
thing
is in
his nature,
which
in
no
part
is
free
from the running
iffues
of
that
feftred
and inbred
finne
?
z.
Why
do
many
doat up-
on
their owne
works
and
Tightly
aftions; either to Po-
pifh.confidence
in
them
as
meritorious,
or
at
leaf}
(with
many
l'roteftants)
to
ref}
in the civility
and
morality
of
them;
without
farther purfuit
of
the
power
of
religion:
but
that
they
fee
not
that
fo
evill
trees cannot
fend
forth
any
good fruit, nor
fo
bitter
fcuntaines
any
fweet
wa-
ter
?which could they
but difcerne, they would
be
wea-
ry
of
the
belt
of
their
righteoufiìeffe ,
and cart
it
away
(with
Paul)
as
dung; and conclude that when
Aloes
and
wormewood
yeeld
a
fweet rafle,
then
might their
fruits
be
fweet
and
taf}efiull
to
God
and
themfelves.
3.
Why
do
fo
many thoufands conteft
against
grace,
fland
upon
their honefty,good neighbourhood,hofpitality,
charity;.
they thanke
God
they are
no
blafphemers,
no
drun-
kards, adulterers,
murderers
;
they
wafii
the
outfide,
come
to
Church,
heare fermons,
are outwardly
cleane
and formali
;
no
man can
challenge
them,
no nor they
themf
elves?
but
becaufe
they
never
law
the
infection
of
their
Coates
,
nor
the
inordinacy
of
their inner man,
which
is
a
fountaine
ever overflowing
all
the
bankes
:
rnoft dangerous,
molt
feeret
:
hardeft
to
find
our, and
hardeft to cure,
and
this
deceives
thoufands
in
their
reckonings. 4.
Why
is
the
righteoufneffe
of
faith
in
the