3. A Conscience purged: purged of dead works, and purged of deadly works: All the Ocean cannot drown a ship, whiles without it; but if they get into the ship, then is the fear of drowning; If Conscience be purged from the love of sin, and from the service of sin, if it be kept sound, and hail, why! this will be as the Apostle tells us, 1 Pet. 3. 21. Like ⟨p. 22⟩Noah's Ark, it will be confidence to us, and safety to us: O friends! we have no Enemy like sin: All our dangers lie in our own sins: The drowning deluge breaks out of a damning deluge, I mean, out of our own fountain of sin: Therefore, if you love your safeties, if you love your lives, if you love your souls, if you love your selves, if you love the Land, Away with sin: If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesars friend, said they of Christ; but I say, If you let your sins go uncrucified, you are not Gods Friend, nor your own friend, Nor the Kingdoms friend.
3. A Conscience purged: purged of dead workes, and purged of deadly workes: All the Ocean cannot drowne a ship, whiles without it; but if they get into the ship, then is the feare of drowning; If Conscience be purged from the love of sinne, and from the service of sin, if it be kept sound, and haile, why! this will be as the Apostle tells us, 1 Pet. 3. 21. Like ⟨p. 22⟩Noahs Arke, it will be confidence to us, and safety to us: O freinds! wee have no Enemy like sinne: All our dangers lie in our owne sinnes: The drowning deluge breakes out of a damning deluge, I mean, out of our owne fountaine of sinne: Therefore, if you love your safeties, if you love your lives, if you love your soules, if you love your selves, if you love the Land, Away with sinne: If thou let this man goe, thou art not Caesars friend, said they of Christ; but I say, If you let your sinnes goe uncrucified, you are not Gods Friend, nor your owne friend, Nor the Kingdoms friend.
