The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole duty of prayer. Delivered in…The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in…

And secondly, when he shall withal believe, that it i• forgiven through Christ, when he is ¹sprinkled in his blood to wash •t away▪ though thy sin be great, yet this will make thee pure, now thou art washed, as it is in the 1 Cor. 6. 9. ²Now you are washed, now you are sanctified, now you are justified: therefore let a man not be discouraged in this case: for, I confess, there is nothing that gives such a check to our prayers, that gives so many stabb•o them (as it were) that hinders us in that duty, as the conscience of sin, when a man remembers such, and such a sin he hath committed: yet be not discouraged; for the blood of Jesus Christ is able to wash them away. Though a mans face be very foul, yet, you know, a basin of clear water will wash it clean, and all the filth is gone: now the blood of Christ is more effectual to rench thy conscience, and to purge it from dead works, to take away, both the guilt of sin, and likewise the power, and stain of it. And therefore, if thou have any sin, labour to be washed from that, that then thou mayest come to the Lord, having thy heart sprinkled from an evil conscience, and thy body washed in pure water, as it is Heb. 10. 22. Let us draw near, saith the Apostle, ⟨p. 131⟩³in assurance of faith: but how? having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: as if he should say, otherwise your drawing near vvill be to no purpose, you shall but provoke the Lord in drawing near, except you be thus sprinkled, and thus washed, and thus purified.

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