An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

If I say I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

¹These words in strictness of sense refer to the inward purpose of his heart,² or bent of his mind, as the former did to the outward way of his life, If I say I am perfect, that is, if I say there is no meditated obliquity in my heart, no intended goings astray, or wanderings, no close hypocrisy or falseness there; if I should say, I am perfect in the bent and purposes of my heart, yet this is not such as I dare appear before God in. As if I justify my self by the actings and puttings forth of my life, My mouth will condemn me: So if I say I am perfect in the thinkings and secret motions of my spirit, it will prove me perverse.

¹These words in strictnesse of sense referre to the inward purpose of his heart,² or bent of his minde, as the former did to the outward way of his life, If I say I am perfect, that is, if I say there is no meditated obliquity in my heart, no intended goings astray, or wanderings, no close hypocrisie or falsenesse there; if I should say, I am perfect in the bent and purposes of my heart, yet this is not such as I dare appear before God in. As if I justifie my self by the actings and puttings forth of my life, My mouth will condemn me: So if I say I am perfect in the thinkings and secret motions of my spirit, it will prove me perverse.

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