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The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures
The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures by Ezekiel Hopkins ...The fourth (and last) volume of discourses, or sermons, on several scriptures by Exekiel Hopkins ...
London: printed by H. Clark for J. Robinson, 1696
A DISCOURSE OF THE NATURE, Corruption and Renewing, OF THE CONSCIENCE.
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.
12. A justifying Faith also is of great use to purify the Conscience: And this it doth not morally, by any natural Influence or Efficacy of its own, but only mystically, as it applies to the Soul the Blood of Jesus Christ, that Blood that alone takes away the Defilement of our Sins. An historical Faith may keep the Soul from contracting Defilement, but this justifying, this saving Faith, washes out the Stains and Defilements that we have contracted, and makes us white and spotless in the Blood of the Lamb. Faith is that Conveyance that God hath appointed to bring the Blood of Christ to stream forth upon the defiled Soul and Conscience; and upon every renewed Act of Sin we ought, by a renewed Act of Faith, to lay our spotted and defiled Souls under the fall of that Fountain that is set open to wash and cleanse us from our Filth and Pollution. Thus Faith cleanseth the Conscience mystically; and by the Actings of Faith, we may thus get and keep our Consciences clear and inoffensive.
12. A justifying Faith also is of great use to purifie the Conscience: And this it doth not morally, by any natural Influence or Efficacy of its own, but only mystically, as it applies to the Soul the Blood of Jesus Christ, that Blood that alone takes away the Defilement of our Sins. An historical Faith may keep the Soul from contracting Defilement, but this justifying, this saving Faith, washes out the Stains and Defilements that we have contracted, and makes us white and spotless in the Blood of the Lamb. Faith is that Conveyance that God hath appointed to bring the Blood of Christ to stream forth upon the defiled Soul and Conscience; and upon every renewed Act of Sin we ought, by a renewed Act of Faith, to lay our spotted and defiled Souls under the fall of that Fountain that is set open to wash and cleanse us from our Filth and Pollution. Thus Faith cleanseth the Conscience mystically; and by the Actings of Faith, we may thus get and keep our Consciences clear and inoffensive.
- 12. As Faith justifies, so it purifies the Conscience mystically.