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And likewise, the Truths of the Gospel: O they have a mighty deal of Power to cleanse your Hearts, 1 Pet. 2. 20. There you have mentioned the Power of the Knowledge of the Gospel, when it abides in one that might be an Hypocrite, and therefore not of that Efficacy that the true saving Knowledge is. Yet Observe, what is said there, For if after they have escaped the Pollutions of the World, through the Knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Now then, If that Knowledge have such a cleansing Power, O what Power then hath the true saving Power of the great things of the Gospel, and the Glorious things of it, to Cleanse the Heart.

And likewise, the Truths of the Gospel: O they have a mighty deal of Power to cleanse your Hearts, 1 Pet. 2. 20. There you have mentioned the Power of the Knowledg of the Gospel, when it abides in one that might be an Hypocrite, and therefore not of that Efficasie that the true saving Knowledg is. Yet Observe, what is said there, For if after they have escaped the Pollutions of the World, through the Knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Now then, If that Knowledg have such a cleansing Power, O what Power then hath the true saving Power of the great things of the Gospel, and the Glorious things of it, to Cleanse the Heart.

Yea, If those Truths do abide upon the Spirits, they have a Transforming power, they have a power to change the Heart into the same likeness: According to that Scripture, 2 Cor. 3. 18. But we all, with open face beholding as in a Glass, the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the same Image, from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Now this Gospel of the Lord, is nothing else but the good things of the Gospel: We behold ⟨p. 191⟩them, and that as with open Face, as we do behold the Gospel of the Lord. And what then? We are changed into the same Image. Oh! this is a Blessed abiding, it is a Blessed thing for the things of the Gospel to rest upon the Soul. Why? Because they have such a Power in them to Change the Heart, to Transform the Heart into the very Image of them, and the Truths of the Gospel have the clearest Image of God upon them; the Glory of God is Imprinted upon the Truths of the Gospel. Now that these should rest upon the Spirit, it must needs be a great Mercy.