EpifikofS. Paulto Titui. CriAP.I.15. God iu(lifie,and approoue of him and his wayes? 2. Herebyonely al 285 manbecommeth capable ofGods graces,who powreth nothis gracious ,1 y liquors intoany fuflie , or filthie veffell: but ifany man purge himfel fe, aTims.ar, heelball bea velèll vnto honour , fanElifïed and meete for the Lord , and ; 3 prepared vnto euerygood werke. 3. All the promifes of God are made only to filch: Dauid breaketh out into a refolued conclufion , Pfal.7 z. r. Surely god icgood to lfrael, to thepureof heart. Let his trialls be what they will, let his perfon be neuer fo meane , let his name be neuet fo re- proched, the Lordrefpeð himthat is of a holy con netration : there is no difference between Iew andGentile , rich and poore withGod,fo the heart bepurified. Such are onely fit to approch God in prayer, who Atttr.ry. can lift vppure hands, and fo offer that cleane offering prophecied of to miilae o, be liftedvp i.n et:cry place, God heareeh not ¡inners, faith the blind man. toh.9. And the exhortation is , let vs drawneareGod with true hearts,inalfu- rance of faith , fprinkled in our hearts from anmill confcience andwafhed Mactb 3 in our bodieswith pure water, Heb. t o. z 2. Nay more , the (ludyof puri- tie hath the promife of ble)fedneffe,of thebleffedvifion of Ged , for who fhallafcend into the mountaineof the Lord? and who (hall (land in his holy place? Eisen bee that bath innocent hands, and apart heart. Seeing pf.,i 4.3. then that without it no man(hall fee god , and that all vncleane perfonr Hob'3.4. fhall bee kept without thegates ofthe Citie : let this confederation added Rec:x. to the expeblation of fach promifes mooue vs to cleanfe our felsses from all fl:hrneffeofiefh, andfpirit ,andgrowvpvireo fullholineffèin the [care of God, 2. Cor.7.t. q. This couife is a note of a true belecuer , who 4 as in other things , fo herein is made conformable veto Chri(l, ging himfelfe as heis pure : the fcope of the place is, to thew this to be a markeof our adoption , when knowing our felues fubie6t to fit-me , yet we delire and endeauour byall goodmeanes to cleanfeour felues daily, propounding herein before vs Chrifl as a patterne of imitation. 5. 5 Lafify,let vs beprouoked to a greater careof holines , feeing the Lord bath not beeneniggardly in aífoarding vs meanes abone many , by the whichwemight be clenfed.He bath givenvs his word plentifully wher- by faith might be wrought vs to the puri ytng of our hears. He bath lent out his Sonne, whole blood through the eternal' fpirit offered without Hcbga4 fpot by himfefe veto God, purgeth our canfciences from dead werkc.t to ferne the lining God : he bath giucnvs of his fpirit to renew vs,by whole blefled dewes we might bebefprinkled as with pure wa:er , fo as we might be iuff fled in the name of the Lord lefm , and by the fpirit of our I.cot God. He bath Pent out his challifements,and aflli &ions in inch greiuous manner, as our Fathers neuer faw the like, by which as by rubbing and beating and wringing, manymight &cpurified andmadewb,;c. He bath Dan.,f.ao, fought
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