A direction for the government of the tongue according to Gods word

And because the heart of man by ⟨p. 2⟩nature is a bottomless gulf of iniquity, two things are to be known: first, how it must be made pure: and then how it is always afterward to be kept pure.

And because the heart of man by ⟨p. 2⟩nature is a bottomlesse gulfe of iniquitie, two things are to be knowen: first, howe it must be made pure: and then howe it is alwayes afterwarde to be kept pure.

The way to get a pure heart, is this. First, thou must seriously examine thy life and thy conscience for all thy sins past then with a heavy and bleeding heart confess them to God, utterly condemning thy self. Thirdly, with deep sighs and groans of spirit cry unto heaven to God the Father in the name of Christ for pardon, I say, for pardon of the same sins, as it were for life and death, and that, day and night, till the Lord send down from heaven a sweet certificate into the perplexed conscience by his holy spirit, that all thy sins are done away. Now at the same instant in which pardon shall be granted, God likewise will once again stretch forth that mighty hand of his, whereby he made thee when thou wast not, to make thee a new creature, to create a new heart in thee, to renew a ⟨p. 3⟩right spirit in thee, and to stablish thee by his free spirit. For whom he justifieth, them also at the same time he sanctifieth.

The way to get a pure heart, is this. First, thou must seriously examine thy life and thy conscience for all thy sinnes past then with a heavie and bleeding heart confesse them to God, utterly condemning thy selfe. Thirdly, with deepe sighes and grones of spirite crye unto heauen to God the Father in the name of Christ for pardon, I say, for pardon of the same sinnes, as it were for life and death, and that, day and night, till the Lord send downe from heauen a sweete certificate into the perplexed conscience by his holy spirite, that all thy sinnes are done away. Nowe at the same instant in which pardon shall be graunted, God likewise will once againe stretch forth that mightie hand of his, whereby he made thee when thou wast not, to make thee a newe creature, to create a newe heart in thee, to renewe a