A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

It is those bloody streams alone which so plentifully flowed out of my crucified Saviour, that can cleanse me from all my sins. And therefore (O Lord) for thy mercies sake, and for thy Christs sake, wash my leprous body and soul in the streams of this thy Jordan. Yea ⟨p. 894⟩(Lord) seeing they are so deeply stained with the double double dye of imputed and inherent, original and actual sins, that no slight and ordinary washing can purify and restore them to their created cleanness, multiply thy washings; drench and dive me thoroughly in the streams of this living Fountain, that being cleansed from my Scarlet and Crimson sins, both in respect of their guilt and punishment, I may become as white as Snow, and that no spot remaining of spiritual defilement, I may be justified when thou judgest, and stand righteous in thy sight. And together with the stain of sin, take away also the sting of conscience, and work in it sound and secure peace, by persuading me, by the infallible testimony of thy Spirit, that my sins are remitted, I reconciled through the death and satisfaction of thy Son, and that, of the child of wrath, and heir of perdition, I am now become thine own child by adoption and grace. And to this end let me find and feel it in me, not only the Spirit of Adoption persuading me of thy fatherly love, and sealing me up unto the Day of my Redemption, but also the Spirit of Sanctification, mortifying in me all my sinful corruptions, by applying unto me the virtue of Christs death, and quickening me in the inner man, unto holiness and newness of life, by the power and efficacy of his Resurrection. Let me put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lusts; and being renewed in the spirit of my mind, let me put on the new man, which, after thine own glorious Image, is created in righteousness and true holiness. Let me continually keep a narrow watch over my self, that I be not again entangled in the snares of the devil, nor circumvented and mis-led through the deceitfulness of my corrupt flesh, but being freed from sin, let me now become the servant of righteousness. Let me make conscience of all my ways, and shun not only open and notorious, but also secret sins, yea, all the occasions of evil, and hate even the garment which is spotted of the flesh.

It is those bloody streames alone which so plentifully flowed out of my crucified Sauiour, that can clense me from all my sins. And therefore (O Lord) for thy mercies sake, and for thy Christs sake, wash my leprous body and soule in the streames of this thy Iordan. Yea