hemselves with a dream of faith.
What influence hath your faith had upon your heart and conversation? Are
ye not as earthly and worldly as ever, as unclean as ever? Ye think your
hearts good, but if your conversation be not good, your hearts are not
good. Will any person think his sins are pardoned, when he wallows in
them? Do they believe they shall obtain the remission of these sins they
are not purging themselves from? No, no, the blood and water must go
together and the Spirit's sanctifying with Christ's justifying.

Use II. The children of God may hence gather the ground and reason of
their little progress in sanctification. Why are your hearts so unclean,
and why is there so much corruption yet living in your thoughts and
affections, that it cannot keep within the heart, but, as a full fountain,
must run out in streams of external actions? It is even this, ye do not
believe much, and though this be told you, yet ye will not believe it; ye
take ways of your own to purge out your corruptions, and it will not do.
All your resolutions, prayers, sad experiences, &c., are of no more virtue
than the blood of bulls and goats. Ye must then apply the blood of the Son
of God, which was offered up by the eternal Spirit. It is but a poor fancy
to suspend believing till ye see a pure heart. How shall ye get a pure
heart? Is it not folly to forbear planting till ye see fruits, or to pluck
up your tree because it bears not the first day? Abide in Christ, and ye
shall bring forth much fruit. Believe, and believe, and believe again,
till faith be answered by a good conscience, till that sweet echo be given
unto the Lord's comforting voice, "Thy sins, which are many, are forgiven
thee." Be much in laying hold upon the precious promises, and then your
heart shall fall out of love with this present evil world, and shall
relish spiritual things. But who will believe this report? Ye go away
convinced that this is the only way to purify yourselves, and yet ye
continue puddling in your old way. May God persuade your hearts to do
better.

Sermon XIV.

1 Tim. i. 5.--"Now the end of the commandment," &c.

Fifthly, Faith purging the conscience, and purifying the heart, works by
love. Love is the fruit of faith. Love is the stream that flows out of a
pure heart and a good conscience. By love, we mean principally love to
God, or Jesus Christ, and then love to the saints next to our Saviour.
This is often mentioned in scripture,