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What enforceth the keeping of a good conscience in all things? St. Paul looked to the resurrection of the just and of the unjust; and this made him exercise himself to keep a good conscience.

What enforceth the keeping of a good conscience in all things? St. Paul looked to the resurrection of the just and of the unjust; and this made him exercise himselfe to keepe a good conscience.

And so purity and holiness, that we take heed of all defilements in the world, that we be not led away ⟨p. 92⟩with the error of the wicked: but keep our selves unspotted. What forceth this, but the consideration of a glorious condition in another world? He that hath this hope, purgeth himself. There is a purgative power in hope, a cleansing efficacy, that a man cannot hope for this excellent condition, but it will frame and fit the soul for that condition. Can a man hope to appear before a great person, and not fit himself in his deportment and attire before hand, to please the person before whom he appears? So whosoever hopes to appear before Christ, and God, of necessity that hope will force him to purge himself.

And so puritie and holinesse, that we take heed of all defilements in the world, that we bee not led away ⟨p. 92⟩with the errour of the wicked: but keepe our selves unspotted. What forceth this, but the consideration of a glorious condition in another world? He that hath this hope, purgeth himselfe. There is a purgative power in hope, a cleansing efficacie, that a man cannot hope for this excellent condition, but it will frame and fit the soule for that condition. Can a man hope to appeare before a great person, and not fit himselfe in his deportment and attire before hand, to please the person before whom hee appeares? So whosoever hopes to appeare before Christ, and God, of necessitie that hope will force him to purge himselfe.