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Use 1 Instruction, to purge our selves at all times, before we take the name or word of God in our lips. Let us labour to be clean, that our prayers may be clean; that our praises may be clean; that our profession may be unblameable; that our rebukes, our exhortations, our consolations, and all our conferences, may be comely, acceptable, and effectual.

Vse 1 Instruction, to purge our selues at all times, before we take the name or word of God in our lips. Let vs labour to bee cleane, that our praiers may be cleane; that our praises may be cleane; that our profession may be vnblameable; that our rebukes, our exhortations, our consolations, and all our conferences, may be comely, acceptable, and effectuall.

Reproof of them that deal in deep points, and yet have but shallow understandings, corrupt affections, and scandalous behaviour: they delight to parle of predestination, and ⟨p. 126⟩yet find no testimony of their own election: they reason much of justification, but are utterly unacquainted with regeneration. They boast of Christ, and commend the Gospel, but have no communion with Christ, nor fruit of the Gospel. They sharply censure the faults of other men, and vehemently exclaim against the corruptions of the time; but they favourably pass by the faults in themselves, and take no time to purge away their own corruptions. Such are both taxed and convicted by the Apostle Paul, saying, Thou which teachest another, teachest thou not thy self? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, doest thou steal? Thou that sayest ¹a man should not commit adultery, doest thou commit adultery? &c.

Reproofe of them that deale in deepe points, and yet haue but shallow vnderstandings, corrupt affections, and scandalous behauiour: they delight to parle of predestination, and ⟨p. 126⟩