5. By [clear] we sometimes understand Purity manifest, or Innocency and Goodness made known. [In 1all things you have approved your selves to be clear in this matter.] That is, you have made it appear, and stand upon your justification, and are willing to be searched, and sounded to the bottom by those that have a desire to under-take that work. So this River of Water of ⟨p. 97⟩Life in the Fountain, and in the streams thereof, offer themselves to the consideration and conscience of all Men. To this end, how often doth God, the head of this River, and he out of whose Throne it proceeds, call upon Men to challenge him if they can, with any evil or mis-doing towards them, either by presence or doctrine; Hence he says? 2put me in remembrance, let us plead together, declare thou (if thou canst) that thou mayest be justified (and I condemned.) So again, What iniquity 3have your Fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain. So Christ, Which of you convinceth me of Sin. And if I have 4spoke evil, bear witness of the evil. So Paul, We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth, commending our ⟨p. 98⟩selves to every Man's conscience in the sight of God. All these sentences are chiefly to be applied to Doctrine, and so are, as it were, an offer to any, if they can, to find a speck, or a spot, or a wrinkle, or any such thing in this River of Water of Life.
5. By [clear] we sometimes understand Purity manifest, or Innocency and Goodness made known. [In 1all things you have approved your selves to be clear in this matter.] That is, you have made it appear, and stand upon your justification, and are willing to be searched, and sounded to the bottom by those that have a desire to under-take that work. So this River of Water of ⟨p. 97⟩Life in the Fountain, and in the streams thereof, offer themselves to the consideration and conscience of all Men. To this end, how often doth God, the head of this River, and he out of whose Throne it proceeds, call upon Men to challenge him if they can, with any evil or mis-doing towards them, either by presence or doctrin; Hence he says? 2put me in remembrance, let us plead together, declare thou (if thou canst) that thou mayest be justified (and I condemned.) So again, What iniquity 3have your Fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain. So Christ, Which of you convinceth me of Sin. And if I have 4spoke evil, bear witness of the evil. So Paul, We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth, commending our ⟨p. 98⟩selves to every Man's conscience in the sight of God. All these sentences are chiefly to be applied to Doctrine, and so are, as it were, an offer to any, if they can, to find a speck, or a spot, or a wrinkle, or any such thing in this River of Water of Life.
- 12 Cor. 7. 11.
- 2Isa. 43. 26:
- 3Jer. 2. 5:
- 4Joh. 8. 46. chap. 18. 23. 1 Cor. 4. 2•
