The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

¹2. Faith is an Heart-cleansing-Grace; An Heart-purifying, and purging-Grace. Hence Act. 15.9. it is said — Their hearts were purified by Faith. Faith opens a way for a stream of blood to run through the soul, whereby the soul is washed, not from the guilt ⟨p. 69⟩of sin only; but from the filth of sin also. — The Blood of Christ doth cleanse us from all sin,— not only from the guilt, but from the filth of sin. — Hence the Apostle, — If the blood of Bulls and Goats, and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkled upon the unclean did purify the Flesh: How much more shall the Blood of Christ (who; through the Eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot) purge and cleanse our Consciences from all dead works, to serve the living God? Heb. 9.13, 14.

¹2. Faith is an Heart-cleansing-Grace; An Heart-purifying, and purging-Grace. Hence Act. 15.9. it is said — Their hearts were purified by Faith. Faith opens a way for a stream of blood to run through the soul, whereby the soul is washed, not from the guilt ⟨p. 69⟩of sin only; but from the filth of sin also. — The Blood of Christ doth cleanse us from all sin,— not only from the guilt, but from the filth of sin. — Hence the Apostle, — If the blood of Bulls and Goats, and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkled upon the unclean did purifie the Flesh: How much more shall the Blood of Christ (who; through the Eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot) purge and cleanse our Consciences from all dead works, to serve the living God? Heb. 9.13, 14.

1. 1Second Royalty of Faith. Its an Heart-cleansing-Grace.