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Full perfection remaineth for the Saints to attain unto in the life to come: but purity in the measure thereof doth accompany them thitherwards in this life. This doth our Saviour confirm, when he pronounceth them blessed that are ¹pure in heart. And so doth S. Paul when he saith, that to the pure all things are pure. And so doth David, when he testifieth, that with the pure the Lord will show himself to be pure.

Full perfection remaineth for the Saints to attaine vnto in the life to come: but puritie in the measure thereof doth accompany them thitherwards in this life. This doth our Sauiour confirme, when he pronounceth them blessed that are ¹pure in heart. And so doth S. Paul when hee saith, that to the pure all things are pure. And so doth Dauid, when hee testifieth, that with the pure the Lord will shew himselfe to be pure.

1. 1Matth. 5. 8. Titus 1. 15.

Reason 1 First, the sins of the godly are all washed away by the blood of Christ; and in this respect, they are holy & blameless before God, without spot or wrinkle, or any thing that may defile them. Purge me with hyssop (saith the Prophet) and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.¹

Reason 1 First, the sinnes of the godly are all washed away by the blood of Christ; and in this respect, they are holy & blamelesse before God, without spot or wrinkle, or any thing that may defile them. Purge mee with hysope (saith the Prophet) and I shall be cleane: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.