The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful…The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull…

9 This being a perfect Rule, requires every sort of personal perfection in us. Our perfection must needs consist in our conformity to the Rule of it, and if so, we cannot be entirely perfect, unless our conformity be as large as the duties which are required by it: and that not only in all the parts of it, by answering to every precept in it, and having a respect to all the Commandments of God; but also in the degrees of our compliance ⟨p. 193⟩with it, which must consist in such an Holiness, as hath not the least mixture of the contrary in it; that doth not only do the thing, but doth it with that accuracy that there be nothing wanting in the matter of it, with that diligence that we never fail either in omission or commission, with that intenseness of love, that hath no mixture of reluctancy, or backwardness, with that singleness of heart that hath no allay or mixture of any sinister aims or ends; and with that constancy that we hold on without wavering to the end; which though none of the Children of God ever did or shall, in this life attain unto, yet it is the perfection which we are called to aspire after, and not to rest in any thing short of it, but to be in an earnest pursuit of it, as long as we abide here, and till we reach it in the Kingdom of Glory. And that this is required of us will appear, if we consider;

9 This being a perfect Rule, requires every sort of personal perfection in us. Our perfection must needs consist in our conformity to the Rule of it, and if so, we cannot be entirely perfect, unless our conformity be as large as the duties which are required by it: and that not only in all the parts of it, by answering to every precept in it, and having a respect to all the Commandments of God; but also in the degrees of our compliance ⟨p. 193⟩with it, which must consist in such an Holiness, as hath not the least mixture of the contrary in it; that doth not only do the thing, but doth it with that accuracy that there be nothing wanting in the matter of it, with that diligence that we never fail either in omission or commission, with that intenseness of love, that hath no mixture of reluctancy, or backwardness, with that singleness of heart that hath no allay or mixture of any sinister aimes or ends; and with that constancy that we hold on without wavering to the end; which though none of the Children of God ever did or shall, in this life attain unto, yet it is the perfection which we are called to aspire after, and not to rest in any thing short of it, but to be in an earnest pursuit of it, as long as we abide here, and till we reach it in the Kingdom of Glory. And that this is required of us will appear, if we consider;