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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 6 › Rules drawn from the Negative part of this model.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. This defilement will damn the soul, wash that thou mayst be saved.
3. The reason is implied: they are wickedness; wash thine heart from wickedness.
4. All this evil is (even) in vain thoughts as well as in vile thoughts, how long shall thy vain thoughts, &c.
5. Therefore we must wash our hearts from vain thoughts as well as from wicked and blasphemous thoughts. Hence I infer,
6. If this should be the work of a Christian every day, how much more on Gods day? the purer the paper the fouler the stain and blot.