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that bath clean Hands and a pure Heart; or that is cleanfed from all Filthiness of Flesh and Spirit: One in whom there is no Occafion of ftumbling, and who accordingly, doth not commit Sin. To declare this a little more particularly, we underftand by that Scriptural Expreffion a Perfect Man, One in whom GOD hath fulfilled His faithful Word, From all your Filthiness and from all your Idols will I cleanse you-I will alfo fave you from All your Uncleannelles. We understand hereby, One whom God hath San&tified throughout, even in Body, Soul and Spirit : One who walketh in the Light, as He is in the Light, in whom is no Darkness at all; the Blood of JESUS CHRIST His Son, having cleanfed bim from all Sin.

5. This Man can now Teftify to all Mankind, I am crucified with CHRIST; nevertheless I live; yet I live not, but CHRIST liveth in me. He is Holy, as GOD who called him is Holy, both in Life and in all manner of Converfation. He loveth the

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LORD his GOD with all his Heart; and ferveth Him with all his Strength. He loveth his Neighbour (everyMan) as himself; yea, as CHRIST loved Us: Them in particular that deSpitefully ufe him and perfecute him, because they know not the Son neither the Father. Indeed his Soul is all Love, fill'd with Bowels of Mercies, Kindness, Meeknefs, Gentleness, Longfuffering. And his Life agreeth thereto, full of the Work of Faith, the Patience of Hope, the Labour of Love. And whatfoever he doth, either in Word or Deed, he doth it all in the Name, in the Love and Power of the LORD JESUS. In a Word, He doth the Will of GOD on Earth, as it is done in Heaven.

6. This it is to be a Perfect Man, to be Sanctified throughout, created anew in JESUS CHRIST: Even "to "have a Heart fo All-flaming with "the Love of God," (to ufe Archbishop Usher's Words)" as continually to offer up. every Thought, Word, and Work, as a Spiritual "Sacrifice, acceptable unto GOD

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"thro' CHRIST." In every Thought of our Hearts, in every Word of our Tongues, in every Work of our Hands, to fhew forth His Praife who hath called us out of Darkness into his marvellous Light! O that both we and all who feek the LORD JESUS in Sincerity, may thus be: made Perfect in One!

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