...compare their practice with their duty ; had " no confcience at all, or a very blind and ftu*' pid one. Who can fay, I have made my " heart clean, I am pure from Jin, was a quef" tion of Solomon, to which he thought no *' man could anfwer affirmatively of himfelf....

...inconfiftent with the nature and ftate of man here, ?rov. xx. 9. where none with modefty or with truth can fay, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my Jin ; where every Job ix. ao. man muft confefs with Job, If I juftify myfelf, mine own mouth Jhall...

...fuch as are in a finlefs ftate of perfection ; becaufe thereis noman which livethand finneth not: for, who can fay I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my fin; and therefore whatever perfuadeth us to neglect or abfent from this our duty is of the devil. For the....